Hi folks -

I've been having a problem for quite a while now where my game (Lock on GOLD, so running FC with patch 1.12) will freeze completely, with no input from keyboard or mouse possible. Engine sound continues, but the visuals stop completely as though the game has been 'paused'.

This seems to happen a lot when flying close to the ground at high speed.

My PC specs:

C2D E6600
8800GTS 640
4GB OCZ RAM
620W PSU
Motherboard: ASUS P5N32-E SLI
XP Pro 32 Bit installed on a WD Raptor 74GB, with the game installed on a WD Caviar 750GB


I'm really not sure why it's doing this, can anyone suggest any solutions?

Cheers

This message has been edited. Last edited by: flanker1121,

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You posted a very similar problem that many are having..

Vista i suppose ?

Not vista i'm afraid...XP Pro 32 bit.

I've never touched multiplayer..this is just in normal flight around an empty map with no other aircraft/ground units around. The game will be running faultlessly with very high FPS, and then freeze. There is no stuttering or anything, it just stops.

I've tried the hardware acceleration tweak, but it doesn't help...

Is this on the same mission or any mission? If it is- you might be running an old mission (created in an older version) that is no longer stable.

It's not a mission as such - I've just opened the mission editor and created a new one, placed a single Su-27 on an airfield and saved it as a quick start.

It happens in any situation in the game, I haven't been using the campaign etc.

It crashes with any aircraft when flying fast/low to the ground generally...

No Over clocking or over heat ?
make sure you get the newest drivers for your motherboard set including sounds etc..

All drivers fully updated, and I really don't think heat is an issue - i've just got 4 new fans for my case and CPUID is showing safe temps..

No overclocking at all

A good way to test for mission corruption is to either-

a. make a new one yourself fresh.

b. get online in hyperlobby and fly in a server.

If it crashes- then you've narrowed it to something on your computer. Like an uncooperative driver.

As above, i've had the problems when flying on a freshly made mission with the only object on the map being the aircraft that i'm flying.

Driver wise, they are all fully up to date, and i've confirmed that several times through, among other things, reinstalling windows more times than i'd care to remember (on different HDDs as well).

One thing that keeps me thinking is that it happens mainly when flying fast or pulling up rapidly, which would equate to many textures etc being rendered at once...I swapped the graphics card with a 7800GTX that i have in another PC, so i dont think its the card as the crashes persisted.

Just an update - I've tried the 'turn hardware acceleration down a notch', and also turned off my sound acceleration in dxdiag. Anti aliasing/antistropic filtering are also deactivated in my nvidia settings.

....and it still crashes! Flying around fairly slowly (<600 km/) is fine, it's just flying fast/towards the ground/pulling up when flying fast that causes the problem.

Am having the same problem too......I've tried changing the settings on my nvidia 8800 320 meg geforce but this makes no difference either...am using 169.21 forceware drivers....my pc is a duel core intel duo running at 3.3ghz... with 2gig of corsair matched ddr2 ram......


I have only just installed flaming cliffs and the lockups have started.....

Been spending days trying this and that...looking at error logs....I know behind this screen of bugs lies the best combat sim out there but trying to figure this hell out it is enough to drive sum1 mad!