random lockups

[legacy-hohoho]

Hello

My problem is UT2004 freezing. Sometimes it freezes after 1 hour, but sometimes after 10 seconds.
I've had the same problem with UT2003 before, but I could play the UT2004 demo without any problems so I bought the game yesterday.
I've already searched for viruses and installed the ASPI drivers, but there's still this problem.

Here are my system specs:
Athlon XP 3000+
MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR (Nforce 2)
1024 MB Corsair ram
Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro

and this is the log file of one crash:

Log: Log file open, 04/14/04 11:25:07
Init: Name subsystem initialized
Init: Detected: Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 (Build: 2600)
Init: Version: 3186 (127.29)
Init: Compiled: Mar  3 2004 02:43:29
Init: Command line: 
Init: Character set: Unicode
Init: Base directory: G:\games\UT2004\System\
Init: Ini:UT2004.ini   UserIni:User.ini
Init: Build label: UT2004 Build UT2004_Build_[2004-03-03_02.42]
Init: Object subsystem initialized
Log: 	ati2dvag.dll/RADEON 9700 PRO 
Log: Global MD5: [3986c4774f86cab155ff9f5432b89282]
Log: Game class is 'GameInfo'
Log: Bringing Level Entry.myLevel up for play (0) appSeconds: 10.177000...
ScriptLog: GameInfo::InitGame : bEnableStatLogging False
Log: Browse: NvidiaLogo.ut2?Name=hohoho?Class=Engine.Pawn?Character=Jakob?team=255?Voice=XGame.JuggMaleVoice
Log: Collecting garbage
Log: Purging garbage
Log: Garbage: objects: 26875->26875; refs: 272723
Log: Game class is 'CinematicGame'
Log: Bringing Level NvidiaLogo.myLevel up for play (0) appSeconds: 20.106000...
Log: (Karma): Autodetecting CPU for SSE
Log: (Karma): Using SSE Optimizations
ScriptLog: GameInfo::InitGame : bEnableStatLogging False
Log: ALAudio: Using DirectSound to record audio.
Log: SET PLAYER!
ScriptLog: New Player hohoho id=75b1885c12b2e5da138e757156186122
Log: Opened viewport
Log: Enter SetRes: 1024x768 Fullscreen 1
Log: Using back-buffer format 22(32-bit)
Log: Using depth-buffer format 77(32-bit)
Log: Creating device
Log: xD3DHelper::Init (QuadEmulation)
Log: OS doesn't support IME.
Log: Startup time: 21.936000 seconds
Log: Static mesh batches: 508608 vertex bytes, 110460 index bytes
Log: Allocating 16384 byte dynamic index buffer.
Debug: UT2k4MainMenu.Opened()   Sender:Package.UT2k4MainMenu
Log: URL: Adding default option Name=hohoho
Log: URL: Adding default option Class=Engine.Pawn
Log: URL: Adding default option Character=Jakob
Log: URL: Adding default option team=255
Log: URL: Adding default option Voice=XGame.JuggMaleVoice
Log: Browse: Index.ut2?disconnect?Name=hohoho?Class=Engine.Pawn?Character=Jakob?team=255?Voice=XGame.JuggMaleVoice
Log: Failed; returning to Entry
ScriptLog: UT2k4MainMenu NotifyLevelChange  PendingConnection:False
Log: GP=FALSE
Log: Spawning new actor for Viewport WindowsViewport
Log: SET PLAYER!
ScriptLog: New Player hohoho id=75b1885c12b2e5da138e757156186122
Log: Static mesh batches: 0 vertex bytes, 0 index bytes
Warning: UT2K4GameProfile SP_hohoho.GameProfile (Function XGame.UT2K4GameProfile.GetEnemyTeamName:0439) empty team list, will use: xGame.TeamNewSunblade
Log: Save=32.863823
Log: Moving '..\Saves\Save.tmp' to '..\Saves\SP_hohoho.uvx'
Debug: UT2k4MainMenu.Opened()   Sender:None
Warning: UT2K4SPTab_TeamQualification Package.UT2K4SPTab_TeamQualification (Function GUI2K4.UT2K4SPTab_LadderBase.StartMatch:0086) Accessed None 'Controller'
Log: URL: Adding default option Class=Engine.Pawn
Log: URL: Adding default option Voice=XGame.JuggMaleVoice
Log: Browse: DM-Morpheus3?Name=hohoho?Character=Jakob?SaveGame=SP_hohoho?TeamScreen=true?GoalScore=60.00?NumBots=9?Game=xGame.xTeamGame?Team=1?NoSaveDefPlayer?ResetDefPlayer?TimeLimit=20.00?Class=Engine.Pawn?Voice=XGame.JuggMaleVoice
Log: Collecting garbage
Log: Purging garbage
Log: (Karma): Level Karma Terminated.
Log: Garbage: objects: 38445->37446; refs: 524162
Log: Game class is 'xTeamGame'
Log: Bringing Level DM-Morpheus3.myLevel up for play (0) appSeconds: 44.890000...
Log: (Karma): Autodetecting CPU for SSE
Log: (Karma): Using SSE Optimizations
ScriptLog: GameInfo::InitGame : bEnableStatLogging False
Log: SR: Loaded grammar file ../Speech\TDM.xml
Log: Spawning new actor for Viewport WindowsViewport
Log: SET PLAYER!
ScriptLog: New Player hohoho id=75b1885c12b2e5da138e757156186122
Log: Static mesh batches: 6800904 vertex bytes, 667326 index bytes
Log: Allocating 16384 byte dynamic index buffer.
ScriptLog: START MATCH
Log: Preprocessing:  Vertex stream total vertices: 62 Orig wedges: 62
Warning: xTeamGame DM-Morpheus3.xTeamGame (Function UnrealGame.TeamGame.ScoreKill:04AB) Accessed None

Thank you guys in advance.

Regards, hohoho

[legacy-Excalibur17]

I have the same problem. It will eventually kick me out. Lemme know if someone figures out a solution .

Specs
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Amd Athlon XP 2100+ 1.7 Ghz
512 Pc2100 DDR Ram
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64 Mb *suprisingly decent frame rate*
Asus A7V8x-x mobo
Sound Blaster Pci 512
Windows XP Pro

[legacy-[SRO]Seaner]

Do you get any Windows general protection fault errors and/or standard error messages from Windows and not the game itself?

[legacy-hohoho]

I don't get any errors, just a freeze.
And I've got this problem only with UT 2003/2004.
:cry:

[legacy-[SRO]Seaner]

Do you know exactly what version of Direct X you are using?

If version 9, is it 9.0, 9.0a, or 9.0b ?

[legacy-coldplasma]

ut2004 is currently using directx 8.1 extensions as DX9 support hasn't yet been implemented so i doubt thats a big issue

[legacy-hohoho]

[legacy-[SRO]Seaner]

If that is true, then why do the requirements state Direct X 9.0b or higher??? If DX 9.0b is included with the game as a requirement, but anything lower is being used, I can see some problems.

[legacy-capt_suicide]

I have that problem too and it's highly annoying . The computer completely freezes on random situations without a warning. I could tolerate it if it crashed to desktop so i just would have to reload the game, but every time it happens I have to hit reset and reboot the whole computer. Sometimes it happens once an hour but once I had to reboot 3 times in 15 minutes . It seems it happens most often when I'm flying with raptor, but it still happens if i'm on foot. Bots may also have something to do with it. I get this only in onslaught but I don't really play other modes too often so I don't really know if I'd get that if I played . The techsupport gives really farfetchd solutions for this IMO. And BTW This happened also in demo.

directx 9.0b
ATI Radeon 9000 pro 64MB
MSI K7N2 delta motherboard
512MB DDR

[legacy-[SRO]Seaner]

Stupid techsupport.... they simply don't know do they? LOL (I'm one to talk since I used to be one).

Is it only in Onslaught u have the problems? This could be somehow related to memory/vid memory/swap file. I only base that on the thought that Onslaught maps would consume more resources due to their large size and scope. But I could be very wrong.

[legacy-capt_suicide]

Well it seems to be only in onslaught. I play assault every now and then but it has never crashed. I installed CachemanXP to monitor the memory usage and it seems UT is consuming a fair deal of it but I think it is holding up nicely. Assault maps seem to be the most power consuming, at least I run them at 25fps average (or even below) and in onslaught it is near 35fps (or even above ). I'm used to low framerates and can play just fine but the crashing is really annoying me.

Oh and forgot to mention
AMD athlon XP 2000+ (1,67GHz)