Problem With Ultima Online Any Advice?

[SoulWeaver]

Just recently past 48 hours. My computer is having an issue running the client its only Ultima Online. Whenever i started to play about 3 min or so the game will freeze and then freeze up my whole computer...

Its only when I try and play uo any other time my computer does not freeze...

I've run Virus/Spy Ware scanns, I've defragged, i've gotten rid of old programs.

I've done a system restore to a few days ago..

I've reinstalled Uo it self. Still have No luck.


Going to see if theirs any updates for my graphics cards let me know if anyone else has any suggestions thx

 

[DreadLord Lestat]

you have tried all the things that I was going to suggest. I would post in the tech forums here as well, might be beneficial.

 

[Critical Gaming]

RAM

 

[SoulWeaver]

RAM

Nope not the ram unfortunetly.

Running 6 Gigs

I have 180 Gig free on my hard drive..

I dont have anything else running beside icq and maybe a browser...

I uninstalled any high end games i tried out so i dont have anything out of the ordinary like i said its just UO..

My comptuer is plenty capable of running it

I have a Dual Core, Geforce 8800 GTX 512, 6 Gigs of Ram, Windows Xp, not sure ran fine for past year i havent changed anything

 

[eurin]

64-bit version of XP?

 

[Timothy_SP]

64-bit version of XP?

Heh, I hope so. Otherwise it's such a waste of RAM.

The 64-bit XP drivers aren't that plentiful. I never had much luck with 64-Bit XP at all.

Upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit already!

 

[Timothy_SP]

Just recently past 48 hours. My computer is having an issue running the client its only Ultima Online. Whenever i started to play about 3 min or so the game will freeze and then freeze up my whole computer...

Its only when I try and play uo any other time my computer does not freeze...

I've run Virus/Spy Ware scanns, I've defragged, i've gotten rid of old programs.

I've done a system restore to a few days ago..

I've reinstalled Uo it self. Still have No luck.


Going to see if theirs any updates for my graphics cards let me know if anyone else has any suggestions thx

Perhaps Karma?

 

[nightstalker22]

Just recently past 48 hours. My computer is having an issue running the client its only Ultima Online. Whenever i started to play about 3 min or so the game will freeze and then freeze up my whole computer...

Its only when I try and play uo any other time my computer does not freeze...

I've run Virus/Spy Ware scanns, I've defragged, i've gotten rid of old programs.

I've done a system restore to a few days ago..

I've reinstalled Uo it self. Still have No luck.


Going to see if theirs any updates for my graphics cards let me know if anyone else has any suggestions thx

Did you do a system restore because of the problem or is it unrelated?

Did you do the system restore then patch or patch then system restore?

When you reinstalled UO, did you remove the old installation first or did you reinstall over the old installation?

I think it is either your sound card drivers or registry problem.

Did you recently change your Direct X drivers? They could have changed your sound card settings perhaps, and it could cause system lockup.

From your start menu go to> Run> type "regedit"

Check out your registry for the program after you do an uninstall, and delete any reference to UO, then reinstall. Be sure to save your macros before uninstall!

 

[Sturdy]

Try either updating or rolling back your graphics driver depending on if you have the most current drivers.

I have had a little trouble that could be related to how my AMD 4870 works with the client.

 

[SoulWeaver]

Did you do a system restore because of the problem or is it unrelated?

Did you do the system restore then patch or patch then system restore?

When you reinstalled UO, did you remove the old installation first or did you reinstall over the old installation?

I think it is either your sound card drivers or registry problem.

Did you recently change your Direct X drivers? They could have changed your sound card settings perhaps, and it could cause system lockup.

From your start menu go to> Run> type "regedit"

Check out your registry for the program after you do an uninstall, and delete any reference to UO, then reinstall. Be sure to save your macros before uninstall!

yeah I uninstalled uo first and removed everything then reinstalled..

Didn't change any direct x drivers.

My bad my laptop has the 6 gig with windows 7 this only has 4 gigs.

The system restore didnt need to patch anything?

Sound Driver or Registersty go into more depth on that nothing been installed or changed that i know of..

 

[SoulWeaver]

Perhaps Karma?

Nope my karma is pretty good life is acutally great Just some technical difficulties with electronics!

 

[Urin]

It's got to be something you changed in the past 48 hours, given the details in your original post. Also, which client, and depending on your version of Windows (after XP) try running it as administrator (right click->run as administrator).

 

[Critical Gaming]

I'd honestly pull out all your RAM and try one stick at a time to make sure that it isn't a single stick ****ing you. It really sounds like a RAM problem to me.

i've seen it happen before, some lady brought in this new PC that kept crashing when she ran programs and it ended up being 1 stick out of her 4GB of *NEW* RAM that was causing it.

I'd try to eliminate that first because it's easy. I know I'd be pissed if I sat here troubleshooting a machine for days then figured out I had a stick of RAM that went south.

Otherwise, drivers/malware/a ****ed up hard drive will be your culprit

Try running chkdsk and combofix (google it).

 

[nightstalker22]

yeah I uninstalled uo first and removed everything then reinstalled..

Didn't change any direct x drivers.

My bad my laptop has the 6 gig with windows 7 this only has 4 gigs.

The system restore didnt need to patch anything?

Sound Driver or Registersty go into more depth on that nothing been installed or changed that i know of..

Check the RAM as Critical Gaming suggested, and disable all sounds in game before it crashes.

I cannot play Battlefield 1942 on this machine with the sound card I have, it will play for a few minutes until I fire my gun too quickly or something, then it locks up and crashes system.

I am running an upgraded E Machine from Wal*Mart!
I put 2 Gigs ram in it, but it was playing UO fine with the 512MB Ram, so even if you find a bad stick of RAM, it should be fine to just remove it!

 

[SoulWeaver]

I'd honestly pull out all your RAM and try one stick at a time to make sure that it isn't a single stick ****ing you. It really sounds like a RAM problem to me.

i've seen it happen before, some lady brought in this new PC that kept crashing when she ran programs and it ended up being 1 stick out of her 4GB of *NEW* RAM that was causing it.

I'd try to eliminate that first because it's easy. I know I'd be pissed if I sat here troubleshooting a machine for days then figured out I had a stick of RAM that went south.

Otherwise, drivers/malware/a ****ed up hard drive will be your culprit

Try running chkdsk and combofix (google it).

My father just suggested the same thing testing now running 1 stick of ram see if freezes then ill try the other stick see if its one or the other or just both running togeather...

Thanks CG