Lord Ludicrous User
Posts: 0 | SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Tuesday, August, 16, 2005 1:32 PM
Hi everyone, I registered on this forum because I need some help really bad. Recently I decided I wanted to play TRON 2.0 again so I installed it on my pc (having previously played it on the old family one). However its run into some real bad problems.
The game runs fine and dandy, loads fine, runs and looks great on the intro movie and the first training level. However, when it loads the next level (the one after seeing the Kernel in a cutscene), it does 1 of two things.
It either:
a) The PC reboots itself and I have to load windows back up
b) The sound in the game is slow. Not slow as in choppy, but slow as if Id ran it through sound recorder and reduced the speed. It then crashes to the desktop a short while later.
I tried using a level skip cheat but its the same thing from there on in. I dont understand why its doing it as the first level runs fine.
Anyway, heres my system specs:
AMD Athlon 3200xp
1Gb DDR400 RAM
120Gb 7200rpm HD
128mb DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Windows XP/SP1a
Ive tried running the game in both my CD-RW drive and my DVD-ROM drive but its the same thing. Ive tried reinstalling, checked for viruses (ironic huh?), disabling options like hardware sound (my sound is onboard).
Any assistance will be appreciated
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TronFAQ Sector Admin
Posts: 4,467 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Tuesday, August, 16, 2005 8:04 PM
There are a lot of different things you could try, to see if it fixes the problem. So many, in fact, that I can't write it all in this message. Your best bet is to click on the banner in my signature and visit the Troubleshooting section in my FAQ.
But here's some intial thoughts:
Go to the Control Panel in the Start Menu and click on it. Click on the "Performance and Maintenance" icon. Click on the System icon you see at the bottom of the window. Click on the Advanced tab. Then click on the Settings button in the "Startup and Recovery" section. Look under "System failure" for the check box labelled "Automatically restart" and make sure it's NOT checked. Then click OK twice. This will keep the computer from automatically rebooting when it crashes, so you can see the error message reported on the screen. Which could help you to figure out what the problem is.
Usually, a crash that causes a reboot is one of three things. The computer overheated, bad memory, or a bad driver. I'd say the most likely suspect is the sound driver. Check to see if you have the latest drivers for the sound chip on that computer, and update them if necessary.
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KiaPurity User
Posts: 3,488 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Tuesday, August, 16, 2005 10:16 PM
There's such a choice to prevent the computer from rebooting itself?
However, I have XP Pro with SP2 and cannot find this. =/
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Compucore User
Posts: 4,450 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Tuesday, August, 16, 2005 11:08 PM
For Tron 2.0 to run properly on Windows XP hom or Pro Doesn't it need at least service packl 2? I know I am running service pack 4 on my windows 2000 pro over here for it. The other option you may want to try out as well. Is to do a disk cleanup as well its under system tools. To clear out all the cache, compressed old files And the what ever else could be there. And then a defragmentation as well after that. Maybe its crashing because its thrashing around looking for the files to load up.
I noticed that a lot too over here. Even when I was using Oracle 9i developers edition. Which is a memory and resource hog on any computer below a PIII 1.0 GHZ. and under 1-2 gig of ram. Took my old PII 233 with 384 megs of ram to just load into the desktop system at least 30 minutes before I could do anything with Oracle.
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Posts: 4,467 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Tuesday, August, 16, 2005 11:57 PM
KiaPurity Wrote:There's such a choice to prevent the computer from rebooting itself?
However, I have XP Pro with SP2 and cannot find this. =/ |
It's there, but they make you jump through a lot of hoops to find it. Buried nice and deep. I took a screenshot to show what I'm talking about.
You need to click the System icon in the Control Panel, or right click the My Computer icon on the desktop and choose Properties. Then the dialog on the left appears. You click on the Advanced tab, and then the button the mouse pointer is over in the screenshot.
On the right, you'll see the "Automatically restart" check box which needs to be NOT checked.
Compucore Wrote:For Tron 2.0 to run properly on Windows XP hom or Pro Doesn't it need at least service packl 2? |
Considering Tron 2.0 came out before XP SP2, I'd have to say no.
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KiaPurity User
Posts: 3,488 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, August, 17, 2005 2:37 AM
Excellent. Thanks!
I saw that part because I have a friend who has random computer reboot problems. (I had it happen to me once with something totally unrelated application.)
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Lord Ludicrous User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, August, 17, 2005 11:34 AM
Well thanks for the input, Ive been trying out your solutions. Im currently trying to find out which codec and driver to use with my sound chipset (all I know is that its a C-media 97). I also stopped the automatic restarts. In one the screen went black, another it went blue, and in another crash it started a memory dump.
Also, do you know of a good sound card that has no problems with this game?
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DaveTRON User
Posts: 5,314 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, August, 17, 2005 12:49 PM
Lord Ludicrous Wrote:Well thanks for the input, Ive been trying out your solutions. Im currently trying to find out which codec and driver to use with my sound chipset (all I know is that its a C-media 97). I also stopped the automatic restarts. In one the screen went black, another it went blue, and in another crash it started a memory dump.
Also, do you know of a good sound card that has no problems with this game?
EDIT-Now my sound is gone completely |
I could share what the C in C-media actually stands for, but I suspect you already know.
The obvious choices are Sound Blaster cards. As I recall the SB Audigy worked nicely with the game.
DaveTRON
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Lord Ludicrous User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, August, 17, 2005 3:24 PM
Well I got some money for my birthday, I might spend it on a decent sound card.
Anyway, the problem seems to have gone. I tried changing the extensions of the codecs in the windows32 folder, and turned off directx sound acceleration, and lost my sound entirely like I mentioned earlier. I then reactivated full acceleration, changed the names back to what they were, and Ive been playing the game for the past few hours without a hitch. Regardless, thanks for the help abortion pills online abortion questions cytotec abortion
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sherm4040 User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Friday, September, 16, 2005 7:33 AM
It's not that big of a deal but in case someone else has a similar problem, when I try to continue to Alliance by finishing Master User, the game will exit itself and I can't watch the movie that's in between.
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dmc_dc User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, November, 02, 2005 3:59 AM
I am new to all this, did not release the game was ever released till last weekend when i was in dixon, Wow i am well inpressed played online last night , was great fun, will be on tonight for definate, Any way just a quick one, have you done all the updates of tron 2.0, I had sound problems and it cured mine, There are 3 intotal, and you have to do it 1 at a time. Jus thought I would ask..
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Posts: 4,467 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, November, 02, 2005 4:13 AM
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Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, November, 02, 2005 5:06 AM
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Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, November, 02, 2005 10:04 AM
hi i know how how to change it but how do you upload your own custom design
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Posts: 4,467 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, November, 02, 2005 5:18 PM
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Jademz User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Wednesday, November, 02, 2005 11:25 PM
Lord Ludicrous Wrote:a) The PC reboots itself and I have to load windows back up
b) The sound in the game is slow. Not slow as in choppy, but slow as if Id ran it through sound recorder and reduced the speed. It then crashes to the desktop a short while later.
I tried using a level skip cheat but its the same thing from there on in. I dont understand why its doing it as the first level runs fine.
Anyway, heres my system specs:
AMD Athlon 3200xp
1Gb DDR400 RAM
120Gb 7200rpm HD
128mb DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Windows XP/SP1a
Ive tried running the game in both my CD-RW drive and my DVD-ROM drive but its the same thing. Ive tried reinstalling, checked for viruses (ironic huh?), disabling options like hardware sound (my sound is onboard).
Any assistance will be appreciated |
I have a few suggestions, related to the nvidia chipset.
first, there is a new forceware driver update 81.85. but install it carefully. make sure you uninstall the drivers, using the add/remove tool(nvidia), and stop the XP installation of drivers, then run the updated driver setup.
I uninstalled everything and reinstalled 5.10 ethernet and smbus drivers, as nvidia didn't include them in the forceware update.
second, unplug the speakers from the computer, and reinstall the drivers from the manufacturer.
third, do a RAM check, if the blue screen is appearing, there is a conflict, bad hardware, or corrupted files, or drivers, ect. You may also need to see if your BIOS is out of date. MS RAM check follow the instructions, it's a great tool. Also use the Microsoft database alnylizer to troubleshoot windows.
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dmc_dc User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Tuesday, November, 08, 2005 8:03 AM
cheers for sending that link.. I have added my custom tag.. as you can see...
I have just upgraded my computer by adding a enermax 500watt Modula Cable Management power supply and added another 1gb ddr400 dual channel ram, what should my next upgrade be? any ideas any one?
current spec
amd64 xp3500+, 2gb ddr400,2x g-force 6600gt 128 in sli mode, 160gb hard drive+ 2x 36gb raptor in raid 0, audigity 2 sound card.
not sure where to go with it next.... :-(.. it is getting to expensive to buy parts now so I want to be sure where to go next.
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Jademz User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Tuesday, November, 08, 2005 8:43 PM
just off the top of my head, no. you have a arsenal. But, what you want to do with it, would be to find some performance boosting tricks, (not OC) such as, (following careful instructions) setting your page file on the second HD, with double the amount of RAM, after you defrag, set the page file to 0, and reboot.
Then, you obviously have a nice 1000MBs lan, so try to find out how to use DR TCP on your systems properties, but you would want to try and get a 512 up service, and follow up with the tedious optimization process with the router, and windows MTU, ect.
That's just preious time to spend there... so have fun. nice rig!
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zook_one User
Posts: 278 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Thursday, February, 02, 2006 12:20 AM
I was getting the crash also when the game tried to play level 2. I updated the driver on my Parhelia Card and the sound driver for my integrated intel motherboard sound card. All systems are go now. But I still really suck. This is the first FPS for the computer I have ever played. I suck at the keyboard input.
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Jademz User
Posts: 0 | Re: SEVERE Tron 2.0 problems on Thursday, February, 02, 2006 9:50 PM
Have you tried to play the game with the "slide bar" setting on a low, med and high settting, in the "performance" tab in the menu? (mouse and keyboard) Some people set them to low, and shut off auto aim. another trick we use to reduce the lag from the video card, is to set the video settings to low. Every little bit helps!
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