MOHAA Crash...Heeeeeeelp !

[Newbie237]

I'm getting desperate. I just bought a Pack MOHAA/Spearhead and decided to try MOHAA on my newly built PC (other games run fine: Splinter Cell, Madden 2003 etc...).
Anyway, each time I start the game it crashes after the MOHAA console (i.e. I can't even get to the first screen game) with a Send/Don't send report type of error.
I tried the following:
1) Kill all programs (beside taskmngr & explorer) using the taskmngr
2) disable VPU recovery (EA Games support told me to try that)
and can't get it to work.

Does anybody ever had the same issue ? I believe it to be ATI related (using catalyst 3.9 by the way) but it's just a guess.

Anyway, if someone can help, this would be greatly appreciated.

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Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
P4 3.0GHz HT
1Gb Corsair XMS PC3200LLPT
ATI A-i-W Radeon 9800 Pro
WD 200Gb SATA
Lite-on IDE Combo Drive
Win XP Pro SP1

 

[phsstpok]

Did you load the chipset drivers?

<A HREF="http://www.intel.com/design/software/drivers/platform/inf.htm" target="_new">http://www.intel.com/design/software/drivers/platform/inf.htm</A>

<b>56K, slow and steady does not win the race on internet!</b>

 

[phsstpok]

I just found <A HREF="http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=33724700" target="_new">this thread</A> over at Rage3D.com. If you are having trouble with all OpenGL games, including MOHAA, then give the ATI AIW hotfix a try.

You can also try Omega's Drivers which apparently have the fix built-in. Get them at <A HREF="http://www.omegacorner.com" target="_new">www.omegacorner.com</A>

<b>56K, slow and steady does not win the race on internet!</b>

 

[Newbie237]

Thanks I'll try that as soon as I get my DDR back (RMA).
Also, that might explain why another of my games (Jedi Knight II) is not working as well (it's using OpenGL as well isn't it?)
Anyway, I'll let you know if this helps. Thanks

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Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
P4 3.0GHz HT
1Gb Corsair XMS PC3200LLPT
ATI A-i-W Radeon 9800 Pro
WD 200Gb SATA
Lite-on IDE Combo Drive
Win XP Pro SP1

 

[phsstpok]

I thought JKII is a D3D game but I don't really know.

Anyway, neither of my suggestions can hurt so you might as well try them both.

By the way, nice rig!

Don't worry. You'll get this problem straightened out.

<b>56K, slow and steady does not win the race on internet!</b>

 

[Newbie237]

well thanks....it did indeed fix the problem for both games...
I'm feeling better...though now I still have a porblem (another one) NFS Underground do not work (not that it was working before...)

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Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
P4 3.0GHz HT
1Gb Corsair XMS PC3200LLPT
ATI A-i-W Radeon 9800 Pro
WD 200Gb SATA
Lite-on IDE Combo Drive
Win XP Pro SP1

 

[phsstpok]

Glad it fixed up some of your games.

As for NFS:U I can't help you. I do seem to recall other people mentioning problems regarding this game but I don't remember the details.



<b>56K, slow and steady does not win the race on internet!</b>

 

[Newbie237]

Went back to Catalyst 3.8 and everything worked perfectly fine (NFSU & MOHAA & JDKII etc..)
Silly me, I thought ATI was finally able to write good drivers...

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Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
P4 3.0GHz HT
1Gb Corsair XMS PC3200LLPT
ATI A-i-W Radeon 9800 Pro
WD 200Gb SATA
Lite-on IDE Combo Drive
Win XP Pro SP1