A
Alden Streeter
I just got Freelancer, and I am trying to play it, but it is
constantly doing something really annoying: about every 20 to 30
seconds no matter what screen I am on - rooms, cut-scenes, space, etc.
the game hangs for about 7 or 8 seconds. It won't accept any input or
even let me move the mouse pointer during that time. But after the 8
seconds it continues working correctly again(except in cutscenes the
sound keeps playing sometimes during the pause so it gets ahead of the
video)...but only for another 30 seconds and then it pauses again.
Changing the video performance levels seems to have no effect -
whether it is all the way up or all the way down the hang happens
pretty much the same. I also tried copying that audio codec that
seems to be the standard advice for "choppy" sound, but that had no
effect either, and anyway my problem seems different than that - the
sound works perfectly, it's the rest of the game that is choppy.
My machine is:
1.9 ghz Athlon XP
Onboard C-Media CMI8738/C3DX sound
Old scavenged Riva TNT 3D video with 16 meg of RAM (which is
supposedly within the minimum game requirements listed on the game
box)
I have installed DirectX 9.0b.
Any advice?
constantly doing something really annoying: about every 20 to 30
seconds no matter what screen I am on - rooms, cut-scenes, space, etc.
the game hangs for about 7 or 8 seconds. It won't accept any input or
even let me move the mouse pointer during that time. But after the 8
seconds it continues working correctly again(except in cutscenes the
sound keeps playing sometimes during the pause so it gets ahead of the
video)...but only for another 30 seconds and then it pauses again.
Changing the video performance levels seems to have no effect -
whether it is all the way up or all the way down the hang happens
pretty much the same. I also tried copying that audio codec that
seems to be the standard advice for "choppy" sound, but that had no
effect either, and anyway my problem seems different than that - the
sound works perfectly, it's the rest of the game that is choppy.
My machine is:
1.9 ghz Athlon XP
Onboard C-Media CMI8738/C3DX sound
Old scavenged Riva TNT 3D video with 16 meg of RAM (which is
supposedly within the minimum game requirements listed on the game
box)
I have installed DirectX 9.0b.
Any advice?