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Duwamish
31-12-2004, 13:36
The problem: My system initially restarted, when switching off the auto reboot all I get is a blue screen with no text! -first time I've seen this!

Triggering the problem: The problem can be reliably reproduced on my system by either building a new path based ride (rollercoaster, train etc.) or placing a different type of path to that already used in the park when it loads. I think this might be something to do with loading textures?

Game settings: The problem ONLY occurs when the texture quality slider in the game is more than a third along. None of the other options have any effect, including adjusting resolution, bloom, anitaliasing etc.

My system: I would class my system as high end - ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb, AMD 64 3500 Processor, 1GB RAM, Shuttle SN95G5 Case / Motherboard. I have DirectX9c everything else is up to date. Occurs under ATI driver 4.10 and 4.12 (havent tested any others).

The solution: Well this isn't a critical problem as it doesn't stop me playing (although it does look ugly with everything turned up, but textures turned down) and it is spoiling my enjoyment of this amazing game. I think its related to the way textures are loaded. Can anyone think of what might my causing the problem? and hence come up with a solution?

Fluxx
01-01-2005, 15:23
You might be better off checking the US forum.......:tup:

GO HERE! (http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=344)

Duwamish
01-01-2005, 21:59
Cheers Fluxx, can't see much evidence for a fix, but it seems like there are loads of people with similar problems, thanx for the pointer.

At least I now know that I'm not the only one with this problem. I'll just have to wait for atari to release a patch that fixes it.

TRAFMAN
02-01-2005, 01:43
i get the same problem but mine seems completly random. hmmm :(

Duwamish
02-01-2005, 12:46
Update: I put sound hardware acceleration to none / emulation under control panel - this is noted as a temp fix in the US forum for some people. The game now crashes at random instead of being predictable! (but I can sometimes play for a little longer).

Still can't play long enough to complete a scenario though!

Will keep on looking! (and praying!) :cry: