Why in Spider-Man The Movie PC Game only some levels i go to will freeze? Like the 2nd to last level, etc.

[WyteWatt]

Ok i was letting my 5 year old nephew play Spider-Man The Movie PC Game and the first level worked fine without freezing at all. But then when i did this cheat to open all levels i went to some of the levels and some of the levels would like start fine then suddening slow down a lot with sound skipping then suddenly freeze totally. Its really strange. It was like the 2nd to last level and a few others. The 1st level , 2nd, 3rd and some more levels we tried worked fine but not all of them did. But when it freezes its like a hard lockup where i have to restart my computer. BTW all other games i tried worked fine without any hard lockups or freezes so far. Even GTA3, unreal 2003,etc

Here are system specs. I am on windows xp pro. btw.

Abit KT7A raid mobo
Athlon XP 1800+
Leadtek GF4 ti 4400 video card
Santa Cruz sound card
Maxtor 45 gig 7200 rpm HD ATA 100
dlink ethernet card
Antec 330 watt truepower power supply
etc


*Remember i played all kind of other games like RTCW, quake 3 arean, unreal 2003,NOLF 2, GTA3, etc pretty much and have not had any freezing or hard lockups in those games. *


If anyone else has played this game with all levels espically the 2nd to last level just fine without freezing/ hard lockups in some of the levels please tell me your system specs. Thanks.

 

[WyteWatt]

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[Tallgeese]

Do you have the most recent patch for the game?

 

[WyteWatt]

TallGeese Yep.

 

[WyteWatt]

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[WyteWatt]

Anyone at all know how to fix this problem because i want to beable to play the whole game without these freezes in some of the levels?

Thanks

 

[DimZiE]

are u using XP ???

had the same problems w/ XP... even w/ the latest patch....
the only way i could get around the problem was install the game on my Win98SE partition...

or it could be driver related.. my little brother had a similar system config as yours.. it turns out that all it require was an update to the sound card drivers..
and vga card.. ( i don't remember the version number for the audio but for display my brother used Det 40.72 )

 

[WyteWatt]

DimZiE yes but i got it fixed finally by turning the sound card hardware acceleration down to none. So its like on emulation but it still sounds fine to me. It does not freeze or hard lockup in some of the levels anymore. I am using my latest santa cruz sound card drivers and I tried different nvidia drivers. I remember when i took my sound card out of my computer spiderman the movie game would work fine without lockups so i guess turning the sound card hardware acceleration works but it still gives me sound at least. I may try rising it one by one to see if it freezes any on the other levels. I think the game is what has a problem and not our hardware. Glad i got it fixed. I never tried it on windows 98SE but i may try that one day to see if i can keep hardware acceleration all the way up. I really don't need it for that game because it still sounds the same except without the hard lockups after 30 secs to 1 min in some of the levels.

By the way what sound card do you and your brother have?

Thanks for all the help. Very well appreicated.