The game keeps exiting to the desktop!!!

[Doomdood]

Hi Guys and Gals,

 

I'm having serious problems with s2. I can't play for more than 5-10 minutes before the game just dumps me right back to the desktop. I suspect its something to do with Silent Storm since none of my other games (Invisible War, C&C generals, Quake3, etc...) do this. I have the latest drivers and service packs for my machine, and i'm not overclocking anything.

 

Is anyone else having this problem?

 

I absolutley LOVE the game, and I'd appreciate any help.

 

My Hardware:

Asus A7n8x motherboard

AMD 2500+ cpu

512 mb of OCZ 2700 ram

ATI 9500 pro video (with 4.2 catalyst drivers)

(2) Maxtor 60 gig hard drives in a raid array

Highpoint rocketraid 404 controller

[kermix]

I may not be able to answer this, but out of curiosity: what other programs are running (if any, including stuff in the systray), and which version of the game is it (country and version number)?

[Paranoid Jack]

It sounds to me that he is running an ATI video card with version 1.0 or 1.1

 

I had the same problem. And the last half dozen driver releases from ATI have all been shite in my opinion. Giving me more crashes to desktop then ever before. And I am not talking in one game alone.

 

Anyway I digress... besure you have version 1.2 of S2 running. If you have the US (North American) release you are already there. If not a US release get the patches here....

 

English Version https://jowood.inode.at/silentstorm/readmep...tchv120eng.html

 

German Version

https://jowood.inode.at/silentstorm/readmep...atchv120ger.htm

 

Any others try here, use the Flags to switch sites for different languages.

https://www.silentstorm-online.de/content.p...lang=en&rid=600

or here

https://www.nival.com/

 

Once you have version 1.2 of S2 running if the drops to desktop continue check your video card's driver version. I am running an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro and prefer the older driver version (6.14.10.6396 dated 09-30-03) I am running over the newer releases (though I have yet to try the latest version).

 

But I think the 1.2 patch for my UK version cleared it up... not the video card drivers. Though Windows XP was telling me repeatedly on those crashes to desktop that it was in fact the ATI Drivers causing it. Hope that helps.