patches for beta?

Published on September 24, 2007 By FluXs In Beta Feedback

Hi guys, I have had a pretty bad time with the constant crashing of the game to the point I actually reinstalled vista fresh onto the machine again to see if it fixed my problems.

After updating the drivers etc I installed sins and it seemed to play okay for about an hour then I got the same error back with the gameplay pausing, going black, then a 50/50 chance of the game continuing or it crashing leaving me with a blank screen which I have to alt-tab out of. (I think its vista recovering the drivers??)

Don't worry I understand what beta is so this is no flame

my question is do you release patches between the main betas, or do I need to wait until Beta 4?

Comments (Page 2)

eetmorsqrls

on Sep 25, 2007

if hes getting errors, id go overkill ^.^

RonLugge

on Sep 25, 2007

Right, according to vista my page file is at 2345mb (auto manage)

min: 16mb max: 3067mb

Hope this helps?

Even for vista, a page file of 2345 MB's is overkill. As in you have a lot of junk running in the background, try running in a clean boot. (Unless that means that its allocated that amount, but isn't using it... I don't know enough about vista to point you to the exact spot I need).

FluXs

on Sep 26, 2007

really? this is a fresh install of vista. I even turned off sidebar, it still has the default wallpaper!

It has msn messenger and google talk, stardock central and sins installed, thats it, yes i have not installed any AV yet

I will check again when I get home. Im thinking of installing XP again

Tsed

on Sep 26, 2007

Right, according to vista my page file is at 2345mb (auto manage)

min: 16mb max: 3067mb

Hope this helps?

That should be the allocated value (and is relatively normal -- mine's hovering just over 2 gigs) -- checking the performance tab of the task manager should get you the used value, I believe.

phloppy

on Sep 26, 2007

Try these link that Massgate has posted for folks with Vista problems.

http://www.massgate.net/read.php?28004,29632

I'm running Vista 64bit, and sins has been working before I used the above MS KB fix/patches. Though I did have problems running single player World in Conflict, the above actually helped fix it.

You mentioned that Vista told you that it has recovered from something something etc. One of the fix in the above link talks about that.

Honestly, Vista has a LOT of small problems that appears here and there to certain hardware setup. MS seams to be releasing fixes within the KnowledgeBase support as patches. Hopefully when the 1st SP for Vista comes out, a lot of these annoying problems will be fixed.

BTW I'm running:

Vista 64
4GB ram
7950 nvidia gfx card just like you (I think mine is made by asus)
Creative X-FI Platnium sound card. (using their sound drivers from may 2007 and using the latest alchemy.

Also using the latest nvidia drivers as mentioned above too. However, sin DID run fine (single beta before beta3) with previous gfx drivers.

I've had the recovered from driver error msg for awhile. I think (can't remember for sure) I fixed it with one of the MS KB patch before I read the above massgate post. I guess I found it via googling earlier at another time.

Good luck!

FluXs

on Sep 26, 2007

Thanks mate, ill try that when I get back home.

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