Elma freezes after few seconds

Morrog · Post by **Morrog** » 20 May 2003, 21:01

Whenever i try to play Elma (with or without Winamp) in XP it freezes after a few seconds. My whole comp freezes and i have to restart which isn't healthy for my comp !!!! This happens every time but it's only doing that for like the last month...
Someone help me, i want to play !!!!!!

dz · Post by dz » 20 May 2003, 21:39

try to update display drivers, (nvidia or ati?) and maybe update sound drivers..

these at first

Karlis · Post by **Karlis** » 20 May 2003, 22:03

turn sounds off and close all running progs(ctrl-alt-del and close one by one)

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 21 May 2003, 04:03

karlis u do know what the task manager is like in xp(having xp too)? try go close those dozen processes like pRmvr.exe, svchost.exe, lsass.exe, csrss.exe etc. that sure will fix any problem

Karlis · Post by **Karlis** » 21 May 2003, 06:32

Antz wrote:karlis u do know what the task manager is like in xp(having xp too)? try go close those dozen processes like pRmvr.exe, svchost.exe, lsass.exe, csrss.exe etc. that sure will fix any problem

wtf? if you hit ctrl-alt-del task manager pops up, so what was that about

Antz · Post by **Antz** » 21 May 2003, 09:20

yes it does. but the applications window shows only programs that have a window on. if u have winamp agent, kazaa in taskbar, etc programs on, they don't show there. u have to dig and find them from the process window where there are lots of progs and at least i have no idea what most of them do.

dz · Post by dz » 21 May 2003, 14:27

of course antz, but thats easy as well, because you can close all programs which user name is admin name. after that you can try to close some system processes, it doesn't matter that much to try to close some important process since usually it just cant be closed.

but my guess is that the askers computer is just enough messed up and would like to get a format.. but of course that's not a good idea if you don't know what you are doing. i'm a kind of perfectionist what comes to computer stability, i would most likely to format my system drive if my elma got freezed more than once, if it didn't happen before.

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » 22 May 2003, 13:29

I have the same problem in:
Morrowind, Quake 3, Battle Field 1942. and those games
But not in Elma, NWN, Starcraft.
wtf

SuppaFly · Post by **SuppaFly** » 25 May 2003, 16:29

A bit diferent:
Playing Elma, and after a time (5-25 ect. mins), it just quits. The comp. doesn't freez, but i have to restart, because can't run Elma.
Maybe because bugging WinAmp3.

What is 'wtf'?

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » 25 May 2003, 16:58

Bonobo wrote:I have the same problem in:
Morrowind, Quake 3, Battle Field 1942. and those games
But not in Elma, NWN, Starcraft.
wtf

It's just getting worse, but Elma is ok.
WTF?
Now NWN freezes and tried Deus Ex with software rendering but it doesn't work..! What's the problem? Win XP? Hate windows! crashes toooo often!

Kopaka · Post by **Kopaka** » 25 May 2003, 21:51

SuppaFly wrote:
What is 'wtf'?

it means: What The Fuck

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » 16 Jun 2003, 23:02

This is getting more oftopic but coming back:
My computer can't be started. It's hanging up all the time, a little problem from start that is a big one right now!
I can start the computer in "felsÃ¤kert lÃ¤ge" (secure...) but then I can't play Elma.
I'm more and more going over to my lovely gamecube! no trouble there!

Karlis · Post by **Karlis** » 17 Jun 2003, 06:16

re-install windows

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » 17 Jun 2003, 20:10

tried it already.
and a lot of other things too.
a really strange problem

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 17 Jun 2003, 21:07

Install linux, problem solved.

Well seriously, if you reinstalled Windows and it still doesn't work it means either that you have a hardware problem or that there's something on your harddisk that's causing the problem.

dz · Post by dz » 17 Jun 2003, 21:14

install linux and get nothing but problems.

I suggest you do a fresh windows install, first formatting your windows partition/drive. If the problem still occurs, it's most likely something inside your computer, not in your hard drive. In other words, hardware problem.

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 17 Jun 2003, 21:42

dz wrote:install linux and get nothing but problems.

Bah, you know that's not true. If you have problems with Linux it's more than likely your own or your hardware's fault, with Windows problems can come out of fucking nowhere. Sure, Windows is much more user-friendly, but that's the only actual good thing you can say about it. The problem is that Microsoft in reality have a monopoly, so practically nothing is produced for other operating systems because it's unprofitable.

PS: In case you wondered, I don't use Linux.

dz · Post by dz » 17 Jun 2003, 21:49

Sure, you can have no problems if you really know how to use it, but if you're just a regular guy who has problems with elma and windows, installing linux will not give you any kind of solutions. You most likely can't ever get elma working without months of linux studies, if then either.

Dariuz · Post by **Dariuz** » 18 Jun 2003, 09:54

Have you changed any kind of hardware lately? I'm asking this because when I upgraded my GeForce 2 with a GeForce 4 and i put a new soundcard I had about the same problem, the pc just freezes at about anything i did (games, IE, etc) after a few minutes, but sometimes nothing went wrong for hours. The problem drove me mad and i went to a local computerstore. They told me to replace my 250 Watt powersupply with a 350 Watt one. And guess what...problem solved.

MagnusB · Post by **MagnusB** » 18 Jun 2003, 12:11

dz wrote:Sure, you can have no problems if you really know how to use it, but if you're just a regular guy who has problems with elma and windows, installing linux will not give you any kind of solutions. You most likely can't ever get elma working without months of linux studies, if then either.

Yeah, I know. I was just joking actually. "Install linux, problem solved" is an old internet catchphrase. (It probably appeared because Linux users some times seem to be very conceited in their OS views.) People started saying "Install linux, problem solved" whenever someone had a computer-related problem.

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » 19 Jun 2003, 15:46

I have now figured it out!

Harddrive crashed wich means all stuff gone

, I think!
All home-made movies and Elma levels gone !

I think I've got an state.dat with a 1 minute worse TT back-upped somewhere. But still a hell! I had a almost-finished level-pack.

I found it when testing EVERY piece of the computer.
Linux is much better but u need to download patches to almost every program. +There's some programs without patches =(