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November 2nd, 2003, 09:33 PM
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starfury demo crashing
hi all.
with fond memories of star raiders on the atari2600, i eagerly downloaded the demo. but i can only get as far as creating the campaign...it tries to load the sound effects, and crashes with a "floating point division by zero" error. gleaning what info i could off the website, it looks like a problem with my soundcard (an audigy 1). so i reinstalled the latest drivers...but the demo still crashes! my other specs:
win98se
directx 9.0b
amd winxp 1600+ chip
geforce4 ti4200 w/128 (45.23 drivers)
i'm also running norton anti-virus as well...will try running the demo without it loaded, just in case. will post here when i i get results from that attempt at trouble shooting  any help would be much appreciated!
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November 2nd, 2003, 09:38 PM
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Re: starfury demo crashing
just a post-script...
disabled norton anti-virus, just in case that was my problem. still crashes. i'm trying to run the demo with hardware t&l enabled, using default display driver, at 1024x768x32 (which is what my desktop is at), with everything set at high. i did try monkeying around with these settings, but still get the CTD.
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November 3rd, 2003, 12:12 AM
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Re: starfury demo crashing
I'm not so good at troubleshooting, but a few ideas:
-Try putting the Video Memory Usage to 'Safe' mode.
-I'm not sure if you can, but try turning off the sound effects before you start a campaign.
-Try making sure you have the latest drivers installed for your video card.
Some of these don't have anything to do with the sound effects, but I don't know anything else to suggest. From the problems other people have had, I'd say those may be your best bet. Hope this helps.
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November 3rd, 2003, 01:03 AM
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Re: starfury demo crashing
Try upgrading your sound drivers. For some reason, SF has issues with older sound drivers (well, more like SF's implementation of the DirectSound API, but whatever)
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November 3rd, 2003, 01:42 AM
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Re: starfury demo crashing
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Originally posted by srennick:
hi all.gleaning what info i could off the website, it looks like a problem with my soundcard (an audigy 1). so i reinstalled the latest drivers...but the demo still crashes!
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November 3rd, 2003, 04:33 AM
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Re: starfury demo crashing
Oops
Aaron will be doing a patch soon for the demo
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