Hitman - cool game, crashes ALL THE TIME

[ahartman]

Hopefully someone can help me...

I get hard lockups on FMV (not always) with sound loops. It never locks up except on FMV - usually I'm fast enough to ESC by them, but not all of them lock me up.

I'm running Fullscreen, 1024x768/32bit, enable blood, full texture quality, half shadows, palette compression (did NOT select: anisotropic filter, full-scene Anti-Aliasing, vertex lighting).

Sound settings: All selected (use Hardware, use EAX, Enable speech)

System specs below...

Suggestions?

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PIII 550@605
IWill Motherboard VD133
VIA Chipset
256MB PC133 CAS2 Crucial
G400 DH 32MB (6.04 Drivers)
DirectX 7.0
SB Live! Value
8x DVD (Toshiba)
6x4x24 CDRW (Sony)
Intel Pro/100+ NIC
3Com CMX Cable Modem
Optiquest V95 19"
HP 812C Color Ink Jet
Microtek flatbed scanner
Intellimouse Explorer
Surround Sound w/two subwoofers
AND WAY TOO MANY GAMES!!!

[jws]

Not sure if this will help, but a patch came out today. You can get it at http://www.3dfiles.com/

Jeff

[R0M]

Is this happening in D3D or OpenGL, btw palette compression means use 8-bit palettized textures instead of 16-bit textures, i suggest not enabling this option either..

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[ahartman]

I can finally post!

I'll remove texture compression next run.

I've disabled EAX (left hardware on) and it doesn't lock up like it used to. Last time I ran, I got a program error, but at least I could close Hitman; no hard reboot necessary.

I haven't gotten the patch yet, but I'll see if that helps too.

Thanks for all the ideas so far! Keep 'em coming!