I want to warn anyone having issues with this, that unless there is a patch immeidately, this is going to continue.
I got my hands on a, uh hm, copy, of v1.00. And it has the same issues as the demo. Sometimes it plays for several hours, others it wants to crash in 5 minutes. (I don't the actual release copy tomorrow is going to help, I just pray they have a patch up quickly if there's anything they (or CL/S
can patch)
The more I've played, the more baffled I've become, but I do think it has something to do with loading of sounds or the like. Quite of few of the crashes I've experienced were at bases talking to vendors, while others are in battle or trying to dock with a ringway.
I'm using XP without SP1 installed, SB Audigy2 Platinum, GF4 TI4400,AMD XP 2100, 512 DDR ram, VIA KT333 based mobo from ECS. I have 2 HD's, so my main OS in on the first one, and I installed a totally clean XP, patched except for SP1 at this point, and just the base drivers for the Audigy. No other programs in this one: no Anti virus, nothing. Crashes either way. Only thing I haven't tried here is going to win2k again
Quite a few of the crashes I've had have been while bringing up menus, which include a graphical and auditory component, but others are during battle, when it's just lots of sounds. I have noticed a few times of late that my system "almost" hangs as I enter a ringway, it's like either the frames drops to 1 fps, or my system freezes for 1 second then keeps going.
I do have a builtin audio chip, and prior to installing the Audigy2 card, I can't recall any issues with sound. Since, I've tried Hitman2 and SOF2 (came with the card), and Hitman didn't have killer problems, but SOF2, MOHAA, and NFS:HP2 have all had issues with crashing. NFS:HP2 has been the most stable. And now FL is having issues. I hate to say this, but I don't think this is a FL issue. I think this is a creative labs issue if anything, as the live series has had issues from it's first introduction. Something doesn't add up. Tonight, I'll uninstall the Audigy2, and remove the card from my system so it can't impact the builtin sound card. See if this helps solve the problems with the crashing.
Please, anyone else who is having strange behavior with the demo or other copy they have, please post any observations you have on when/why your's crashes. The game is very good, and lots of fun except for these very untimely crashes, usually at a point when I've just completed some long cargo run and I'm selling the loot, and it crashes before I take off again so the autosave is at the previous base
Will try to update this tonight/tomorrow letting everyone know if the removal of the Audigy fixes the issues.
regards,
RogueOne