Jedi Academy Crashing!

[Makaveli]

I posted a thread about this rage3d, but haven't really found a solution yet to it.
Hoping there are some JA player on anandtech that might have some useful info.

If u look up Jedi Academy crashing on Google, my rage3d thread should be at the top.

Anyways i've been thru numerous driver revisions, and tried different settings in game and in my video control panel with no luck. Game always crashes to desktop when i'm playing multiplayer. The Single player Exe has no problems. Sometimes i'll be able to play for 30mins other times it just keep quitting every 5 mins. Alot of people told me the game is buggy, which i'm starting to believe, but its also a game I enjoy playing.

My computer is virus free and spyware free. so its not that. Interesting enough, I previous used the Windows SP2 firewall. but after switching to Kerio. I now find when the game crashed Kerio puts up and tell me this application has start Dr watson post moterm debugger.
then when I either deny or allow it the crash to desktop goes thru. So that was one clue. I then found out show to disable the Dr watson debugger in the system registry. now when the game crashes. It tells give me some kinda weird memory error saying it couldn't write to this value. And this is where I am currently. I don't believe this memory error is correct. because everygame I play on my system DX or Opengl works fine. and this game is the only one that gives me this.

Any ideas folks?

My system specs
http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.aspx?rigid=16172

 

[shortylickens]

Your system is very close to what I used to have.
When I ran the game it was not so buggy that it crashed every half-hour. So it must be something on your computer.
You may want to try uninstalling your Anti-Virus and Firewalls.
My gaming machine did not have either one and I could run Jedi Academy with no problems.

 

[Makaveli]

Ya i've tried just about everything to try to fix this, even doing a repair on XP and nothing has worked. I know some people love to format on a regular basis, but i'm the opposite I will try to fix until I deem its absolutely needed. So it looks like I will have to format to fix this!

Now would be a good time to do a drive image after the format. Does Norton ghost work on SATA drives?

 

[DaveSimmons]

> AMD Athlon XP2500 Mobile 1833MHz @ 2400MHz

Unstable overclock?

Some games trigger OC failures that others don't.

Try stock CPU, video and memory timings.

 

[Makaveli]

i'll give that a try, but I seriously doubt its an unstable overclock, i've had it running this for like 8 months already, and its been Prime95 tested and Toast aswell for numerous hours.

And have had uptimes of a month at time, when I do decide to leave the computer running.