UT lockups monitor related??

[Laurie]

I have almost given up playing UT because of the lockup problems. I won't go into the sordid details of the past two weeks with this but it is enough to say I have gone back and forth between 98 and WinMe so many times I've lost count and neither one works any better than the other. I have a SB GamerX (on its own IRQ...4) and I have disabled the DOS emulator thingy the two usual suspects when dealing with the SB Live series. I have also tried at least 4 different G400MAx drivers from the newest on down. Nothing seems to work. I have gone back through this forum to last October and found nothing that I haven't tried.

When I got home from work today there was a bright white horizontal line across the center of the screen and a hot electrical smell from the back of the monitor. When I moved the mouse the desktop appeared and all else seems normal.

So back to the topic question......is it possible that UT will push a feeble monitor to the point where it will lockup and it seems that it is the game locking up?

[This message has been edited by Laurie (edited 06 June 2001).]

[rylan]

Its not really possible to get a monitor to 'lock up', since it relies on constant data from the video card to create a display.
Still probably not good that the monitor is flipping out though.

About that SBLive.. try to get it on a high priority irq (IRQ9, 10, 11 etc). IRQ4 is really crappy for any device that needs a decent amount of bus bandwidth.

[Oboy]

Is your sys overclocked?

Oboy

[Laurie]

Nope, this system is not o/c'ed. Neither the cpu nor the G400.

I have tried to move the SB to another irq but I'm really not sure how to do that. I was happy when it didn't show up using 11 which is the one my Max is on .

I've got an Asus CUSL2C and have tried assigning irq's to certain pci slots but that doesn't seem to work.



[This message has been edited by Laurie (edited 06 June 2001).]

[Laurie]

Okay, I figured out the irq switch-a-roo. SB now by itself on irq 10. New monitor tomorrow. We'll see how it goes.

[Laurie]

I knew it was a long shot... really long. The new monitor is great but I'm still locking up so out came the SB GamerX and in went the old SB PCI128.....no lockups. What a waste of $150 and I now have to put it my wife's comp...oh well, last Creative product I'll ever buy.

[Greebe]

I wonder why so many of us use the SB Live and don't have any problems with UT?!

[Jorden]

Yes Mike, I wonder that as well, even though I don't use an SBLive

Laurie, did you check all programs running in the background as well? An Anti-Virus program might be the cullprit.
Or did you use clean Windows installs all the time? Which DirectX versions then?
Did you install all the right sound-drivers?
So to make a long questionaire short, tell us more about your sordid details

Jord.

[Jorden]

Oh, and some information about the system used would be cool as well

[Laurie]

Thanks all for your interest in this issue. Since I have lost a couple of weeks of UT playing time I finally bit the bullet and installed my old PCI128 and that solved all my problems. I tried everything from new drivers to so many clean installs of WinMe and Win98 I lost track. Jorden, there was nothing running in the background, no windows stuff or virus scans. I was using selective startup so I could control what was being loaded. Bottom line is that I bought a headset and the SB Live really will be of more use in my wife's comp where the Plextor burner(whoohoo) is. BTW. She got my speakers too.

Just so I answer all the questions:

Asus CUSL2C bios ver1.06(newest)
PIII 1000
G400 Max (irq11)
(formerly)SB GamerX5.1 now PCI128 (irq10)
WD20gig
WD10gig
Etherfast nic (irq4)

Kind of a bare bones system, nothing fancy or exotic.

I remain stumped by this one but since I can now play UT again... does it really matter?...nope. Life's too short to ponder stuff like this for too long.

Another BTW: Just moved to ADSL from @Home. Wow, what an increase in speed. We must have had too many people on our @home node or whatever its called. I now get standard 100 to 200 Kb/sec downloads, something I rarely saw with @Home.

Thanks again,

Laurie