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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Eric_The_Confused on July 20, 2003, 11:45:52 pm

Title: Shut Off Game Problem
Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 20, 2003, 11:45:52 pm

Ok, I just downloaded the game about 2 hours from writing this message.  I created a character without any problems. I tried to connect and had no problem there.  Then it started loading the game and was loading the world for a long time.  That\'s where it stops completely.  It starts initializing the world then after about 10-20 minutes of loading the game shuts off without starting.  Help me plz!!!!!

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 21, 2003, 01:28:13 am

One more thing. One board says how to make the game fullscreen.  Well that line doesn\'t exist in that file.

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Post by: Drilixer on July 21, 2003, 01:31:38 am

the file mentioned in that board is wrong -> the file you want is video.cfg

It is found in Planeshift/date/config/video.cfg

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 21, 2003, 03:18:45 am

Ok that help but how do i fix the game to actually get it to load up the world and not shut off.

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Post by: Drilixer on July 21, 2003, 03:33:52 am

afraid I cant help you there - hopefully someone who can will read this thread

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 21, 2003, 04:47:25 am

yea. Thx anyway. Someone plz help

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Post by: Dace on July 21, 2003, 05:34:48 am

I have the exact same problem, When its Loading the world after about 5 mins it just ....EXITS! can anyone help?

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Post by: Caldazar on July 21, 2003, 10:52:02 am

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics-card, and, run the updater.

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 21, 2003, 04:49:41 pm

that makes a lot of sence.  How do i check the version of my drivers.  If you need to know i\'m running Windows XP.

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Post by: Caldazar on July 21, 2003, 04:52:16 pm

Well, you can go to your graphics-cards homepage. Nvidia (http://www.nvidia.com) or ATI (http://www.ati.com), nvidia is geforce and ATI is radeon. :)

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 21, 2003, 07:17:49 pm

Thanks. I got a graphics driver do i need any others?

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Post by: Caldazar on July 21, 2003, 08:06:21 pm

Make sure you ran the updater for PS.

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 21, 2003, 08:33:58 pm

i did everything is up to date but the game goes to the loadin screen. loads the character , loads the GUI, starts to initialize the world and then shuts off. It really didn\'t help.

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Post by: Caldazar on July 21, 2003, 08:35:45 pm

Are you sure you have enough virtual memory?

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 21, 2003, 08:55:45 pm

how much do i need?

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Post by: Caldazar on July 21, 2003, 09:04:18 pm

Im not sure, there is a thread about virtual memory somewhere created by the allknowing Mogura.

Title: same problem here too
Post by: kalog on July 22, 2003, 02:50:05 am

I have the same problem with you too.  I updated everything that is connected to PS, but mine still shuts off too.  About the virtual memory, doesn\'t your computer free some space in your virtual memory.  That\'s what my computer did to mine.

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Post by: Eric_The_Confused on July 22, 2003, 03:38:51 am

what do you guys have in RAM i have 128 MB what should i have?  Plz help me solve this, I\'ve been itchin to play this game forever.

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Post by: Caldazar on July 22, 2003, 01:46:17 pm

It depens, since there are different kind of RAM. I have 512mb dual DDR RAM (2*256mb), which is more than enough. I think that 128 might be a to little, and I would advise you to buy atleast one more 128mb stick.

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Post by: Moogie on July 22, 2003, 03:49:47 pm

The virtual memory thread can be found here (http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=4712&boardid=17&styleid=3).

Good luck fixing this guys, it must be incredibly annoying!

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Post by: CadRipper on July 22, 2003, 04:53:12 pm

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Originally posted by Eric_The_Confused
what do you guys have in RAM i have 128 MB what should i have?  Plz help me solve this, I\'ve been itchin to play this game forever.

The PS client eats up about 300 MB of virtual memory (for Iamthom  ;) ), maybe more sometimes. About half of this (or a little less) is willing to stay in physical memory on the motherboard. Of course, this could change from one configuration to another, it\'s just the case for me without any exhaustive tests.

Which means you will probably have a lot of swapping on your computer. But I am not sure enough and don\'t want to discourage you : try and run it to see by yourself.

The OS you are using may also need more or less memory, depending on its version and the settings. XP is quite hungry, usually.

Are you sure the amount of memory you are talking about is on the motherboard ? Or is it the memory of the graphic card ?