Hey everyone. I am becoming somewhat fed up with Windows XP, as I?m getting lots of bugs and problems. I know some will hopefully be resolved with new updates/drivers/etc., but I?m hoping some of these weird problems can be fixed, as not all seem to be fixable by drivers. If you can help with any problem, please post the number and your ideas, and if you help, I will give you my undying love forever. (And if you don?t want that, I?ll just say thanks 🙂)
Overall: I have the latest drivers, 4in1s, and I?ve done all basic troubleshooting associated with any game or connection.
1. Max Payne Crash!
Max Payne is Windows XP compatible, and it even worked for me the first time I played it. However, since then, when I execute it, it will show the resolution/mod pick screen, and the opening movie perfectly. Then, as it is halfway done loading the menu (the red line gets halfway across), it crashes to the desktop, and I get a ?This program needs to close? dialog. It will do this at the same exact point every time. Neither the patch nor no-cd cracks could fix the problem at all. I?ve uninstalled and reinstalled many times, to no avail. I tried different resolutions, and I tried mods, and still crash at the same point. Nothing about my system changed in that time, and I had all the same drivers and everything.
2. Can?t connect to servers.
I have a Netgear RT314 gateway router, and I share my internet within my house using the router through 3 computers. My main problem is that now, in XP, I can't connect to a lot of things. FTP, internet and instant messengers work fine, but things like Morpheus, AudioGalaxy, and within games, like Red Faction and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (test), I can't connect. In things like Morpheus, all connection attempts fail. In AudioGalaxy, it says it can't connect, and says I must be behind a firewall or ICS, or I have to open some ports in my router. I have opened these ports, and I have no firewall right now. In the games, when I try to refresh the server list, I get no servers available, so I can?t play games online. All of these programs run perfectly on my other machines, all running Windows 98. I disabled the stupid Windows XP firewall (it is unchecked). I have also updated my router firmware to the latest version, and assigned all unmarked packets to default to my machine in the network.
3. Cable internet randomly quits.
Totally randomly, sometimes when I?m surfing the internet, and sometimes when I?m not, my machine will lose access to the internet, but all the other machines in my network will still have it. The weird thing is, I will still be able to connect to FTPs and instant messaging programs, but my internet and e-mail won?t work. When I lose access, I discovered that if I unplug and replug my router to reset it, I will regain access instantly when it finishes resetting.
4. High Heat 2002 and SB Live! 5.1
What list of incompatibilities would be complete without a reference to my SB Live! 5.1 X-Gamer card? I?ve experienced pretty good sound in XP so far with the XP standard drivers, except in High Heat 2002, all the commentary loops. The play by play man will say the same thing over and over until he has something new to say, and it?s also a little scratchy. I saw on High Heat 2002 boards that this hardly released SBLive driver, originally released for Win2k, will fix this problem in XP with a special install, omitting one incompatible file (Dlvdr.exe or something), and it fixes the problem. I haven?t been able to get this to work, but I?ve got the new beta SBLive/Audigy drivers from Reactorcritical.com. Will these fix my problems? I saw in the installation I have to go into my old drivers and delete them by hand and all, and I?m not really comfortable with that?
Finally,
5. Adding Win98SE after WinXP in a dual boot because of incompatible games.
Since NBA Live 2001 is definitely incompatible, and Max Payne and High Heat 2002 might need this as well, I was hoping to somehow add Win98SE to my setup. I wanted to install Win98SE on a tiny little partition so I could just play these games. However, I remember you usually have to have the older one on first, then hit to "upgrade" and then add the 2nd. I DON'T want to reformat again - I've done that enough in the last month. (Though I may need to if this thread doesn?t get me answers 🙂) Here's my HD setup.
C: OS 10 GB
D: Apps 5 GB
E: Games 10 GB
F: Media 10 GB
I used Partition Magic 7.0 to do this. I tried to follow their instructions, by creating a new FAT32 partition, that would be primary (3 GB from the OS partition before drive C🙂, put at the beginning of the drive, with label G:. I then set it Active, rebooted, and tried to install using the Win98SE CD. It told me that the primary partition was NT compatible, and it couldn't install. I then couldn't reboot to Windows, until I remembered, used the PM boot disks, and deleted that partition and set C: back to active.
How can I pull this off relatively easily? I don't want to reformat again, at least for a long while.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL SUGGESTIONS WITH MY PRECEDING QUESTIONS.
I apologize that this thread was so long, but I wanted to consolidate my problems for simplicity?s sake, and I was hoping lots of your intelligent minds would read it 🙂.
If you have any suggestion to any of my 5 problems, just precede your suggestion with your number. 😀
Thanks so much to all help!
Overall: I have the latest drivers, 4in1s, and I?ve done all basic troubleshooting associated with any game or connection.
1. Max Payne Crash!
Max Payne is Windows XP compatible, and it even worked for me the first time I played it. However, since then, when I execute it, it will show the resolution/mod pick screen, and the opening movie perfectly. Then, as it is halfway done loading the menu (the red line gets halfway across), it crashes to the desktop, and I get a ?This program needs to close? dialog. It will do this at the same exact point every time. Neither the patch nor no-cd cracks could fix the problem at all. I?ve uninstalled and reinstalled many times, to no avail. I tried different resolutions, and I tried mods, and still crash at the same point. Nothing about my system changed in that time, and I had all the same drivers and everything.
2. Can?t connect to servers.
I have a Netgear RT314 gateway router, and I share my internet within my house using the router through 3 computers. My main problem is that now, in XP, I can't connect to a lot of things. FTP, internet and instant messengers work fine, but things like Morpheus, AudioGalaxy, and within games, like Red Faction and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (test), I can't connect. In things like Morpheus, all connection attempts fail. In AudioGalaxy, it says it can't connect, and says I must be behind a firewall or ICS, or I have to open some ports in my router. I have opened these ports, and I have no firewall right now. In the games, when I try to refresh the server list, I get no servers available, so I can?t play games online. All of these programs run perfectly on my other machines, all running Windows 98. I disabled the stupid Windows XP firewall (it is unchecked). I have also updated my router firmware to the latest version, and assigned all unmarked packets to default to my machine in the network.
3. Cable internet randomly quits.
Totally randomly, sometimes when I?m surfing the internet, and sometimes when I?m not, my machine will lose access to the internet, but all the other machines in my network will still have it. The weird thing is, I will still be able to connect to FTPs and instant messaging programs, but my internet and e-mail won?t work. When I lose access, I discovered that if I unplug and replug my router to reset it, I will regain access instantly when it finishes resetting.
4. High Heat 2002 and SB Live! 5.1
What list of incompatibilities would be complete without a reference to my SB Live! 5.1 X-Gamer card? I?ve experienced pretty good sound in XP so far with the XP standard drivers, except in High Heat 2002, all the commentary loops. The play by play man will say the same thing over and over until he has something new to say, and it?s also a little scratchy. I saw on High Heat 2002 boards that this hardly released SBLive driver, originally released for Win2k, will fix this problem in XP with a special install, omitting one incompatible file (Dlvdr.exe or something), and it fixes the problem. I haven?t been able to get this to work, but I?ve got the new beta SBLive/Audigy drivers from Reactorcritical.com. Will these fix my problems? I saw in the installation I have to go into my old drivers and delete them by hand and all, and I?m not really comfortable with that?
Finally,
5. Adding Win98SE after WinXP in a dual boot because of incompatible games.
Since NBA Live 2001 is definitely incompatible, and Max Payne and High Heat 2002 might need this as well, I was hoping to somehow add Win98SE to my setup. I wanted to install Win98SE on a tiny little partition so I could just play these games. However, I remember you usually have to have the older one on first, then hit to "upgrade" and then add the 2nd. I DON'T want to reformat again - I've done that enough in the last month. (Though I may need to if this thread doesn?t get me answers 🙂) Here's my HD setup.
C: OS 10 GB
D: Apps 5 GB
E: Games 10 GB
F: Media 10 GB
I used Partition Magic 7.0 to do this. I tried to follow their instructions, by creating a new FAT32 partition, that would be primary (3 GB from the OS partition before drive C🙂, put at the beginning of the drive, with label G:. I then set it Active, rebooted, and tried to install using the Win98SE CD. It told me that the primary partition was NT compatible, and it couldn't install. I then couldn't reboot to Windows, until I remembered, used the PM boot disks, and deleted that partition and set C: back to active.
How can I pull this off relatively easily? I don't want to reformat again, at least for a long while.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL SUGGESTIONS WITH MY PRECEDING QUESTIONS.
I apologize that this thread was so long, but I wanted to consolidate my problems for simplicity?s sake, and I was hoping lots of your intelligent minds would read it 🙂.
If you have any suggestion to any of my 5 problems, just precede your suggestion with your number. 😀
Thanks so much to all help!
