it's perfect, then its frozen

**HellspawnZ** · January 24th, 2002, 07:36

Hi, Sorry to say, but yes, I am new to this message board.
I am hopeing that if this question has been asked before, someone out there who knows could merely point me in the right direction, it would be most appreciated.

My problem is simple. So far, for Zelda64 (1st one) and Goldeneye, the game turns on, plays its opening scene for no longer then a minute / minute in a half, it looks great, runs fine. Then freezes. The sound at that point usually is at a repeating standstill, like a skipping record, and the screen is completely frozen, allowing only the mouse to move. Even ctrl+alt+del does not work.
It also appears that Starfox 64 has close to the same error as well. Rarely it does not freeze, and if it doesn't, another error occurs. If the ship gets hit, the entire screen will flash a solid green for a second, and then flash back to the game, rendering the game unplayable.
In all truth the only game that has successfully run is mario64, although the game itself does have some werid issues, its still playable. (text is next to white, barely readable, / opening mario head is a shinny black, no other color.) If it plays, I am not picky, I'm happy. I just figured those little bits of information might clue someone in on what the problem may be.

My Specs i beleive are good enough to run it

700 athlon
128 MB RAM
Diamond Stealth 3 with 16MB
DirectX 8.1 (newest one out)

If anyone is willing to help, I would greatly appreciate it. I am sure it is just some simple error i just have to go and fix... Or its my graphics card, in which that case, well, I think I will be out of luck then.

Thank you in advance for any help you are able to provide.

**gokuss4** · January 24th, 2002, 08:03

hmm maybe the diamond stealth 3 is the problem. im just guessing but what plug-in are you using and what are the settings for the plug-in?

**Ogy** · January 25th, 2002, 00:28

all roms = verified with GoodN64?

and give OS too

**EdgeBlade** · January 25th, 2002, 00:44

I'm not fimiliar with that card but I'm sure that is the promlem, that or the drivers for it. Unless you tweaked with PJ64's default settings. Mario 64 should run near perfect. I have no problems you describe with it. As for your other probs, no idea, I don't play those games much.

**Doomulation** · January 25th, 2002, 16:25

Hmmm...
I don't really know what the problem is. I guess it's because of bad roms. Use goodn64 to check the roms. Found at http://smiff.clara.net/
Also, that video card of yours is pretty crappy. 16 mb is poor. 32 mb is somewhat OK, but not really good. 64 mb is recommended.

**Slougi** · January 25th, 2002, 16:50

Does that diamond stealth use a savage chipset? Like savage4 or savage2000 or something?
If yes, then that's the problem. ???

**B*A*G*G** · January 25th, 2002, 18:05

i think the diamond stealth is a tnt chipset

**HellspawnZ** · January 28th, 2002, 02:06

I have been doing some research into the problem while reading your replies, and i was clued in on the chipset identification.

Diamond stealth 3 uses the Savage 4 chipset, i just checked... according to the website problem solving section, thats most likely where the problem lies.

There is a program to help tweak the system. Its called,
S3Tweak, recommended by the FAQ of website. Problem is, i don't know what i should change and leave alone. The last thing i need ot to mess with it, and then nothing else works.

If there is someone who is experienced useing it.. or knows specific names of things they had to change up with there graphics card, setting and what have you, it would be most helpful if I knew what would work good with the p64.

To help answer some other questions that have been asked, I am useing windows 98 second edition, and the plugins in p64 are the ones that come with the latest version when downloaded.

Anyone with sugestions, i would be most appericative.

Thanks in advance

**HellspawnZ** · January 28th, 2002, 02:09

btw-

I have not used the rom checking program yet, but there is enough diversity with all the roms i have tried, and diversity in the websites i have gotten them from, to make it far from a coincidence that the exact same thing happens to every game i try excpet mario64.

But, thats the next thing i am planing on doing popssibly tonight, is to download and start figuring out how to use the rom checker. Thanks for the websites in where to get it from. :-)

**Zero** · January 28th, 2002, 02:22

As Slougi said : If you have a card which uses a savage4 or savage2000 it won't work.

Though luck dude ???

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