MOHAA crashing with Radeon 8500/Epox 8KHA+

[Accreta]

SOMEONE HELP!!

My gracious wife bought me MOHAA for my birthday, but I can't play it!! ARG!

I just installed a new mobo, processor and memory, hoping to boost my performance. However, MOHAA crashes anytime I try to load from the missions screen.

Here's what happens. I load MOHAA. I see the EA intro screen. I see the opening scene for the game (looks great!!). I get to the main menu fine. I go to the missions screen. I click on "training" and it begins to load. Somewhere in the middle of loading.... it crashes! I get this blurry, fuzzy error message that I can't read.

Any ideas?

My rig is listed below... the easiest thing to blame is my Radeon 8500....

Anyone got some good hints on BIOS settings for an Epox 8KHA+ board running the Radeon 8500??

 

[tazdevl]

Turn off bios/v shadowing and fastwrites in the BIOS. Set AGP to 4X, not auto. Set your vcache/buffer to 64MB. Still doesn't work, crank it up to 128MB.

What version of drivers are you using? If it's the ones that came on the CD, I'd recommend you head over to the following link and download these. I'm betting you don't have the latest version.

Here's a link that has directions on how to completely remove your old drivers. I'd highly recommend you follow it.

Head over to Rage3D if you have any issues with your 8500. It's a HW site dedicated to ATI products. Some very knowledgeable folks.

If your system is somewhat unstable, it might also be your power supply. The 8KHA+ and Athlon XP's are both notorious for being rather picky about PSU's.

I agree with the comment on changing your OS.

 

[Anubis]

om runnin a similar set up Xp 1700+ on the 8KHA+ mobo. with the readon 64 DDR VIVO and NOHAA is dooin fine. id try changin the driver for the 8500. and maby the bios update for the 8KHA+. you have a great cooler on your CPU so i dont ghink its over heating. have you tried to reinstall teh game that might work. and my last suggestion us get rid of windows ME get 2K or XP

 

[xinxb71]

My system crashed, too. Which is a ASUS K7V mobo. But after I use the safe mode w/ network to install the new driver, the ATI 8500 works fine except that I can not play DVD. You might want to try the new driver from ATI website.

 

[xinxb71]

Tazdevl,

Can you take a look of my thread at herehere.

I am almost mad at the ATI 8500.

 

[Accreta]

<< What version of drivers are you using? If it's the ones that came on the CD, I'd recommend you head over to the following link and download these. I'm betting you don't have the latest version. >>



I'm using the 4_13_9009 drivers.. I believe these were just released by Radeon in Feb.



<< Here's a link that has directions on how to completely remove your old drivers. I'd highly recommend you follow it. >>



could be the problem.. i'll do a complete uninstall of the drivers and reinstall to see if it works. then ill try to omega drivers... do you use the omega drivers? they seem interesting ...



<< If your system is somewhat unstable, it might also be your power supply. The 8KHA+ and Athlon XP's are both notorious for being rather picky about PSU's. >>



no system instability



<< maby the bios update for the 8KHA+. >>



nahhh... i think the bios is fine... just this quirky mohaa problem.

appreciated gentlemen... any other ideas?

 

[tazdevl]

I think it's a driver issue. Omega's are based on the latest beta and are tweaked to make things look better. There have been a few versions since yours and they are now on 9017 for the 9X kernel. I do use them until there is a new beta... takes omega a bit to catch up with the driver releases.

One other question... did you do a complete reinstall of your OS, programs and files? You need to if you haven't.

 

[Sporko]

I read somewhere that mohaa tries to connect to the internet even during offline play. Whether that's true or not I don't know. What I do know is that I cannot play mohaa until I shutdown ZoneAlarm first.

 

[Accreta]

<< One other question... did you do a complete reinstall of your OS, programs and files? You need to if you haven't. >>


Well, I did NOT reformat my HDD, BUT I did reinstall Win ME. I used a boot disk and then loaded "setup" from my CDROM and it reinstalled Windows on top of itself. I thought that would be appropriate.

Yeah, I'll try the Omega drivers, because after reinstallation of Win ME, I'm STILL having the same error. It locks up, but NOW without the fuzzy error message.

thanks for your help!! REALLY!

 

[TheYetiMan]

MOHAA has an issue where it want's you to be online even when you are going into single player mode.

I was ready to fly my disk out the window when i bought it, but this is in the ReadMe file in the game. (i had this problem on my radeon 64ddr and my 8500, using the 9009 and experimenting with the 9016 driver on both cards). The game would crash to the desk top. I also found that the "Remote Center" program for my soundblaster audigy platinum was causing the game to crash also.

Now i close the remote center and have an internet connection present, and haven't had a crash since.

(Granted, it sounds like your having a different issue)

What a cool game btw !