Game Crashes and flashing screens

[morpheusfilm]

My game only flashes in full screen mode but it is kind of a pulsating glitch like possibly a HZ problem? Also it doesn't pulse in the menu screens before the actual battlefield screen. I'm running XP on an older Sony Viao laptop using AC not battery. Any idea about the way to fix?

[Mobhack]

morpheusfilm said:
My game only flashes in full screen mode but it is kind of a pulsating glitch like possibly a HZ problem? Also it doesn't pulse in the menu screens before the actual battlefield screen. I'm running XP on an older Sony Viao laptop using AC not battery. Any idea about the way to fix?

"using AC not battery" - does that mean that you do not get a problem when running on batteries then?. If so - possibly as a wild guess, something to do with power saving features, or some other lap-top specific power widget thingy?.

Cheers
Andy

[Stonefire]

Hi

I can't get winspmbt to run stable on my PC.

Have any one here had the same type of crash as I have?

The screen turns almost purple, and then it is divided into 4 sections all showing the game screen (still most purple).

(No I have not been drinking or eating any funny mushrooms)

Some times it just crashes ordinary with a black screen.

I guess it is a graphic issue (I have turned the sound completely off)

I run the game on a PC with Win ME with a RADEON 9550 card.

Regards

Stonefire

[DRG]

I'm running Win ME but not with that card although that card should work.

Here are two things to try first

1] Make sure you have the latest driver for your card

2] Click on START then RUN then type in dxdiag and press OK and see if there are problems with your machine using Direct X

Don

[Stonefire]

Hi Don Thank YOU :-))

Right on spot

I ran dxdiag and the screen froze in one of the tests.

It turned out that a new driver was released in September.
I got that.

And so far it seems that the game runs smoothly now.

Regards

Stonefire

[21sec]

I just got the CD version, and am having a problem. When I get to the main menu screen I can try and select anything and when I click on say editor nothing happens. I've waited a couple of minutes and still nothing happens. When I do the task master it has [not responding] next to WinSPMBT. This has happened in both windowed and full screen. Occasionally this does not happen, but 9 out of 10 times it does. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW I'm running Windows 98, PIII 550mHz

[Mobhack]

21sec said:
I just got the CD version, and am having a problem. When I get to the main menu screen I can try and select anything and when I click on say editor nothing happens. I've waited a couple of minutes and still nothing happens. When I do the task master it has [not responding] next to WinSPMBT. This has happened in both windowed and full screen. Occasionally this does not happen, but 9 out of 10 times it does. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW I'm running Windows 98, PIII 550mHz

I'll assume the download version game ran fine, sound and all?

[If you did not try out the download game first - then try running with all sound off, including the interface click (page 2 of game options). I'll assume you have DirectX installed, but even so - start->run and entering dxdiag as the program to run there to test your DirectX settings may help]

Then I would try deinstalling, then reinstalling the CD version.

If this still keeps happening then
1) Deinstall, and then run the windows scandisk utily to defragment the drive, it will also find any lost clusters. Reinstall. Retry.

2) Same again - but this time try a surface check on the drive for any bad disk clusters. That test can take overnight to run, and on modern drives it is rare to find bad clusters.

3)If that has not sorted the problem, I would suspect a bad CD - return to shrapnel for a replacement. [ You can skip straight to this test by trying the installlation on a different machine - a friend's say - and if it works there, your box is the problem, if it fails, then it is likely a bad CD ]


Cheers
Andy