• TY2D2
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Re: Game crashing on startup of 2142 or FS 1.5

I used the driver cleaner to remove the old nVidia drivers. So that didn't break anything, I am sure.

I updated my drivers through the catalyst control center so I am sure that wouldn't cause a problem either.

I am useing XP 32bit.

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Re: Game crashing on startup of 2142 or FS 1.5

Actually you'd be surprised what it can do. If you instructed it to remove all references to nvidia for example, and your motherboard uses a nvidia chipset, then guess what? You just knackered your pc! Chipset drivers, networks drivers, pci drivers..you follow?

Also, a quad core and 5 series ati card are completely wasted on XP.

Easiest solution....complete reinstall of ALL drivers for the motherboard and graphics card.

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10 Reply by j23k (edited by j23k 2010-09-26 15:29:34)

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Re: Game crashing on startup of 2142 or FS 1.5

did you change your processor, graphics and mobo recently? if yes then did you change your psu? please specify your psu. additionally uninstall and reinstall the latest catalyst software suite, do not use driver cleaners or registry optimizers (you have an AMD chipset i assume).

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Re: Game crashing on startup of 2142 or FS 1.5

I don't like Win7 or Vista, and it is a performance boost so I don't feel it's wasted.

Every other game works fine, absolutely no problems like this in any other program. ARMA2, BFBC2, SC2, all run perfectly.

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Re: Game crashing on startup of 2142 or FS 1.5

It's not a performance boost really. You are actually limiting the capabilites of your card. if you are going to insist on running XP then you may as well have saved a lot of money and bought a much lower end card. Why buy a DX10/11 card when XP can only utilise DX9? You're not getting the full capability from your card.

Anyway's, if you are so insistant that everything else is fine, uninstall the lot (2142 and FS) then install 2142 on it's own. Make sure that runs then install FS.

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Re: Game crashing on startup of 2142 or FS 1.5

I am going to try out reinstalling the drivers, just not right now, thats too time consuming and it doesn't fit in well with my college life schedule.

5700 and QUAD are working better than my Single core and my old GT220 by 10fold so, living without DX11 is fine for me.

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