Stuttering and Freezing FTW!!!
I just wrote this huge post with all this great info and then accidently clicked on my back webpage button and lost it. haha thats comedy. Anyway my fianc'e just bought me the Lock On Gold game about a week ago cause I was getting bored waiting for WoW xpack. I have always enjoyed flying games but never played anything so realistic like this sim. My problem with the game is this. In any mode where I am actually in the game such as campaign mode or training my game will freeze up every few seconds for 2 or 3 second intervals. Within 10min the game will eventually freeze for good. I have done my research and I believe I have read everything I could find on stuttering and freezing. So this is everything I have done in respone. I reinstalled the game in the order described by another poster. Lock on 1.0 original, then i installed FC, then the 1.12a patch. Still same problem. I reinstalled my graphics card which is trully dumb cause its not like this game is gonna push my hardware. I mean the buildings look like they where made from old country farmers with a can of nails and a couple 2x4's to spare, lol even with the graphics on high. haha im just kidding its not to bad, was only picking on the folks that are hard core. Anyway, I really don't believe I have that problem where I need to replace my 2nd disk because it doesnt freeze on load up or that protection software checky thingy. I am currently trying the defrag thing even though I just built my PC a couple months back. For a game I have never played or even grown any attraction to I have now became a mess just because I have one of those never stop until everything is flawless attitudes. For some reason I think this problem could be a conflict with some other software I have installed. I hope it doesnt come down to listing all of the software on my computer. Anyway here you go for grins.
Windows XP Pro 32bit ver.
Service Pack 2
AMD 3800+ Dual Core (barton)
Asus Crossfire Mobo
Radeon x1900xtx 512mb
Patriot Dual Channel 1gig 2-2-2-5
2 Hard drives. 80g and 250g sata both Western Digital
PS. I did read one thing that made since but Im unsure how true it is or if its even a problem. I read somewhere that the game was not meant to work on 64bit. Being that i have a 64bit x2 processor this could have something to do with the stuttering. Im still running the 32bit windows xp pro software though so its not like im actually getting the worth of the dual core that I payed for. I plan on upgrading to Vista when Im not so lazy. Anyway in the same post it said something about disabeling the 64b. Not sure if thats possible but if it is how do you do it and is there a chance it will help?
Thanks in advance for any help. Much love, Seipher.
