ultrazealot on 7/2/2007 at 20:25
i dont know where the problem is. but i cant play it at all!!! :( :( :(
+ the game crashes (exit to windows) when it finishes loading the first quest. (instead of starting, it crashes)
+ and, if i see the intro cinematic, it crashes right afeter the 'reptile-man' crosses in front of the camera.
this is the first time im trying to play it, and ive tested all the game-configurations possible.
i've:
-instaled the Latest video driver
-instaled Arx Fatalis patch 117
my sys:
AMD Duron 1600mhz
Geforce 4 MX440 (msi) (agp4x, 64 mb, drivers nforce 93.71)
256 Mb ram
Windows XPpro servicepack2 Directx 9.0c
anyone have an idea of how to fix this???
i wanna plaaaay :( :( :(
thanks
Sluggs on 10/2/2007 at 06:49
It's probably because you are very low on system memory.
Shadowcat on 10/2/2007 at 07:48
I played it fine on 256MB RAM. Admittedly that was under Win98 rather than WinXP, but I suspect that it would be okay with that amount of RAM unless you had lots of other stuff chewing up the memory. (edit: in fact the minimum sys reqs are 64MB RAM, and 256MB is the 'recommended' amount, so RAM is most definitely not the issue).
I'm a little suspicious of the video card drivers. A GF4MX is pretty much a glorified GF2, and you can guarantee that it's a long time since there was a video driver update from nVidia that actually helped out the owners of that card.
I never updated my GF4Ti drivers beyond the 56.72 release for instance (or rather, I reverted back to those permanently after suffering all kinds of instability with later drivers), so presuming that Arx supports your card to begin with, you might want to experiment with downgrading the video drivers.
I searched google back in the day to find the most stable drivers that people suggested for the GF4Ti. I've no idea whether the 56.72 release is also best for the GF4MX, but I'd imagine that you could do worse, so yuo might want to start by trying that one and see if it helps.
If 'Detonator Destroyer' and the likes are still around, it's not a bad idea to use that to eradicate all traces of the existing drivers from your system before installing a different one -- nVidia's uninstallation routines always used to leave all kinds of files around afterwards.
