UT2004 general protection faults

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UT2004 keeps crashing at random times during gameplay. It usually just
puts up the bluescreen of death, but yesterday when it happened
(thrice), I finally saw a little dialog box that said "General
Protection Fault". Here are my specs, I've been through uninstalling and
reinstalling Motherboard, Sound and Video drivers, using System
Mechanic, etc. This only seems to happen in UT2004 (not UT2003, Far Cry,
etc.). (I have only not tried reinstalling the cumbersome 6 CD game
itself...)

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated...

-Jen
AthlonXP2400+
1gig2100DDR
WinXP
GigabyteGA-7VTXE(Via4.51)
Audigy Gamer(InternetUpdate)
Radeon9700Pro(Cat4.5)
UT2004latestpatch

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"Jennifer Hayes" <jhayes@yahoo.com> wrote in message:
> UT2004 keeps crashing at random times during gameplay. It usually just
> puts up the bluescreen of death, but yesterday when it happened
> (thrice), I finally saw a little dialog box that said "General
> Protection Fault". Here are my specs, I've been through uninstalling and
> reinstalling Motherboard, Sound and Video drivers, using System
> Mechanic, etc. This only seems to happen in UT2004 (not UT2003, Far Cry,
> etc.). (I have only not tried reinstalling the cumbersome 6 CD game
> itself...)
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated...
>

I have been having the same problem ever since I patched to 3204. The game
had not crashed once before the latest patch. Now it crashes a couple times
a day. I've been submitting bug reports everytime it dies. All we can do
is wait for the next patch.


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Are you using an adequate wattage output, stable power supply? That could
be it.

--
DaveW



"Jennifer Hayes" <jhayes@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:jhayes-F607E4.11115524052004@isp.dca.giganews.com...
> UT2004 keeps crashing at random times during gameplay. It usually just
> puts up the bluescreen of death, but yesterday when it happened
> (thrice), I finally saw a little dialog box that said "General
> Protection Fault". Here are my specs, I've been through uninstalling and
> reinstalling Motherboard, Sound and Video drivers, using System
> Mechanic, etc. This only seems to happen in UT2004 (not UT2003, Far Cry,
> etc.). (I have only not tried reinstalling the cumbersome 6 CD game
> itself...)
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated...
>
> -Jen
> AthlonXP2400+
> 1gig2100DDR
> WinXP
> GigabyteGA-7VTXE(Via4.51)
> Audigy Gamer(InternetUpdate)
> Radeon9700Pro(Cat4.5)
> UT2004latestpatch

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I found Defraging the hard drive cleared up any problems. Some how my
video drivers had gotten fragmented, and with all the extra maps, cache,
skins, etc, the UT2004 folder was bound to be a mess.

"DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message
news:3Bvsc.54709$gr.5323217@attbi_s52...
> Are you using an adequate wattage output, stable power supply? That could
> be it.
>
> --
> DaveW
>
>
>
> "Jennifer Hayes" <jhayes@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:jhayes-F607E4.11115524052004@isp.dca.giganews.com...
> > UT2004 keeps crashing at random times during gameplay. It usually just
> > puts up the bluescreen of death, but yesterday when it happened
> > (thrice), I finally saw a little dialog box that said "General
> > Protection Fault". Here are my specs, I've been through uninstalling and
> > reinstalling Motherboard, Sound and Video drivers, using System
> > Mechanic, etc. This only seems to happen in UT2004 (not UT2003, Far Cry,
> > etc.). (I have only not tried reinstalling the cumbersome 6 CD game
> > itself...)
> >
> > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated...
> >
> > -Jen
> > AthlonXP2400+
> > 1gig2100DDR
> > WinXP
> > GigabyteGA-7VTXE(Via4.51)
> > Audigy Gamer(InternetUpdate)
> > Radeon9700Pro(Cat4.5)
> > UT2004latestpatch
>
>

Archived from groups: alt.games.unreal.tournament2003 (More info?)

On Tue, 25 May 2004 07:54:59 -0500, "Hawk" <jedi001@netscape.net>
wrote:

>The patch is buggy, pure and simple. There are hundreds of people (that
>I've personally seen in forums) complaining about the exact same problem.

More than likely, you're seeing the same dozen people bitching
multiple times

>I can guarantee that its not a hardware or cooling issue with my system.

But can you guarantee us that you know what you're doing? Nope
Real systems folks don't begin problem-solving with "it can't be
that", they think "maybe it could be that, wouldnt hurt to check".
Have you even tried ramping back your oc'd settings just to be sure?

Sorry that you're having problems and wish you speedy solutions, but
hyperbole is a poor way to start out the conversation.

-s-

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In article <nq67b0179eoipdt6a6svbkekiefacmfp9l@4ax.com>,
Pluvious <Pluvious@knowhere.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:25:51 -0400, Jennifer Hayes <jhayes@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Is there a way I can prevent
> >anything at all from automatically downloading - maps, voting, beta this
> >beta that, etc.? I have "standard servers" selected, would like just
> >clean stuff. Or just cleaning the cache after playing the same thing?
> >
> >
>
> Oh.. PS Jen..
>
> [IpDrv.TcpNetDriver]
> AllowDownloads=True
>
>
> Change to False. It's in the ut2004.ini file.

Excellent - thanks! -Jen