deus ex 2 crashes/freezes

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Hello everyone. I finally got around to picking up Deus Ex Invisible
War, the sequel to one of my all-time favorite games. I'm ejoying it,
though so far it doesn't hold a candle to the original. Anyway, at
regular intervals the game does one of three things.

1 crashes to my desktop
2 freezes for several minutes at a time
3 I'll completely lose video (it will actually put my monitor into
sleep mode)

Since the game has a pretty lame save system, if I'm not obsessive
about hitting the quicksave button every few minutes I often end up
having to replay large sections of the game. If anyone can give me any
hints on how to reduce the frequency of these crashes I'd be gratefull.

I'm playing the 1.2 version of the game on a celeron 2.93ghz with 1gb
ram and an ATI radeon 9600 with the latest drivers installed.

 

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TallVenusian wrote:
> Hello everyone. I finally got around to picking up Deus Ex Invisible
> War, the sequel to one of my all-time favorite games. I'm ejoying it,
> though so far it doesn't hold a candle to the original. Anyway, at
> regular intervals the game does one of three things.
>
> 1 crashes to my desktop
> 2 freezes for several minutes at a time
> 3 I'll completely lose video (it will actually put my monitor into
> sleep mode)
>
> Since the game has a pretty lame save system, if I'm not obsessive
> about hitting the quicksave button every few minutes I often end up
> having to replay large sections of the game. If anyone can give me any
> hints on how to reduce the frequency of these crashes I'd be gratefull.
>
> I'm playing the 1.2 version of the game on a celeron 2.93ghz with 1gb
> ram and an ATI radeon 9600 with the latest drivers installed.

There are two things that you can try:

(a) Try to run the game in Windows 2000 compatability mode (assuming
you're running XP, of course). Find all .EXE files in the System folder
in your DX:IW installation, then for each one, click on Properties ->
Compatability -> Run this program in compatability mode for: -> Windows
2000. The XBox is a modified version of Windows 2000, so perhaps there's
some reason why this occasionally works. It won't fix everything though,
and it may not fix anything at all. Best to give it a shot though.

(b) Try to avoid using the Quicksave option and instead use the manual
save menu option. It does take longer, but it appears as though the
Quicksave function is slightly buggy. Quicksave occasionally save a
corrupted game file that when loaded, will crash the game to desktop
without any error messages. Worse still, you can't tell if the save is
corrupted without trying to load it. Manual saves don't seem to have the
same issue. It's happened to me twice so far, and there's no way to fix it.

Simply put, the game is buggered and the developers are out of business,
so any future fixes are unlikely to appear.

 

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TallVenusian wrote:
> Hello everyone. I finally got around to picking up Deus Ex Invisible
> War, the sequel to one of my all-time favorite games. I'm ejoying it,
> though so far it doesn't hold a candle to the original. Anyway, at
> regular intervals the game does one of three things.
>
> 1 crashes to my desktop
> 2 freezes for several minutes at a time
> 3 I'll completely lose video (it will actually put my monitor into
> sleep mode)
>
> Since the game has a pretty lame save system, if I'm not obsessive
> about hitting the quicksave button every few minutes I often end up
> having to replay large sections of the game. If anyone can give me any
> hints on how to reduce the frequency of these crashes I'd be gratefull.
>
> I'm playing the 1.2 version of the game on a celeron 2.93ghz with 1gb
> ram and an ATI radeon 9600 with the latest drivers installed.
>

That's odd. I played the game through twice on a 1.8Ghz-P4 with 512MB
running WinME, and with a measly old GeForce3 64MB video card, and
didn't get a single crash. I though the save system was robust compared
with some other titles I've played. Are you running the game at an
extremely high screen resolution with all the video bells & whistles
turned on? Obviously, I kept things simple at 1024x768 without the most
extreme video options. (version 1.2 also, btw)

I wasn't all that thrilled about the design of the game itself, but the
program seemed flawless.

 

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On 16/5/05 9:45 AM, GFree wrote:

> the developers are out of business,

<Insert big smily face>

Poetic justice.