TTDPatch Freezes

LazzaH · Post by **LazzaH** » 02 Sep 2004 19:58

Hi all, anyone else had this happen?

Am running TTDPatch 2.0 Beta 4 under WinXP Pro SP2. Every 3 minutes and 50 seconds, approximately, the game freezes for about 7 seconds then resumes. This is also happening (not sure if same timings) on my PC at work, which is running Win2000, slightly different version of TTDPatch (2.0 Rev 1?)

Does anyone know what is causing this and if it can be cured. The game has never crashed (famous last words!) but it is irritating.

Any help gratefully received.

Lazza

P.S. When`s the Locomotion Demo coming out, Owen?

Post by **orudge** » 02 Sep 2004 20:30

LazzaH wrote:Am running TTDPatch 2.0 Beta 4 under WinXP Pro SP2. Every 3 minutes and 50 seconds, approximately, the game freezes for about 7 seconds then resumes. This is also happening (not sure if same timings) on my PC at work, which is running Win2000, slightly different version of TTDPatch (2.0 Rev 1?)

Try downloading dxmci.dll from http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/ - it'll likely be the music causing the problem. Put the file in your TT directory and try again.

LazzaH wrote:P.S. When`s the Locomotion Demo coming out, Owen?

I was supposed to have got it by now. I've e-mailed them again so should have a reply soon, I hope.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 02 Sep 2004 23:31

Hey, did it freeze BEFORE you installed SP2? Because I've got XP Pro also and was just about to install SP2, and now you've got me worried. It's supposed to conflict with all sorts of stuff.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 03 Sep 2004 02:33

I've heard that too, SP2 is having a lot of problems with older games
I haven't got it yet

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 03 Sep 2004 03:15

I don't imagine that Microsoft bothered to test SP2 with TTD...

Patchman, if you're reading this, do you have SP2 yet for testing?

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 03 Sep 2004 03:22

krtaylor wrote:I don't imagine that Microsoft bothered to test SP2 with TTD...

Patchman, if you're reading this, do you have SP2 yet for testing?

Yes, but I resolved not to boot XP except under dire circumstances. Besides, I couldn't get TTD to run, neither without SP2 nor with it.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 03 Sep 2004 03:28

Hmm. What flavor of XP do you have? I've got Pro, and I haven't had the slightest problem with TTD (Windows version, of course). But I have yet to install SP2. And I'd rather not, unless I know that a.) someone has tried it, and it worked, or b.) you'll try it, and if it doesn't work, figure out why and fix it. I can't imagine why the "security" fixes in SP2 would screw up TTD, but with Microsoft, who knows?

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 03 Sep 2004 03:35

krtaylor wrote:Hmm. What flavor of XP do you have?

No idea, actually. It came preinstalled with the computer. I didn't spend a lot of time to try and figure out why it works. XP doesn't really have anything to offer me, and it has lots of things to annoy me, so I'll stay with 98 as long as I can, and then dump Windows altogether... (these days, I only boot it to work on the patch and play the games that don't work on Linux anyway.)

LazzaH · Post by **LazzaH** » 03 Sep 2004 03:47

krtaylor wrote:Hey, did it freeze BEFORE you installed SP2? Because I've got XP Pro also and was just about to install SP2, and now you've got me worried. It's supposed to conflict with all sorts of stuff.

If you read my post you will see that this problem also occurs on my PC at work, which is running Windows 2000, so I don`t think it`s an SP2 issue.

Lazza

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 03 Sep 2004 04:25

Ah. Well, I think, then, that with great trepidation, I'll install SP2 and hope for the best. I'll let you know what happens, if anything.

BTW, Patchman, it's easy to tell which version you've got, it says so at the startup screen: XP Home vs. XP Professional.

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 03 Sep 2004 04:50

krtaylor wrote:BTW, Patchman, it's easy to tell which version you've got, it says so at the startup screen: XP Home vs. XP Professional.

I know... but that means I'd have to boot it

Szappy · Post by **Szappy** » 03 Sep 2004 07:48

LazzaH wrote:Am running TTDPatch 2.0 Beta 4 under WinXP Pro SP2. Every 3 minutes and 50 seconds, approximately, the game freezes for about 7 seconds then resumes. This is also happening (not sure if same timings) on my PC at work, which is running Win2000, slightly different version of TTDPatch (2.0 Rev 1?)

That _might_ be caused by setting the aiboost switch too high too. Beta 4 has that switch, if I remember correctly.
Check you ttdpatch.cfg, and make sore that "aiboost=0"

LazzaH · Post by **LazzaH** » 03 Sep 2004 08:50

orudge wrote:
LazzaH wrote:Am running TTDPatch 2.0 Beta 4 under WinXP Pro SP2. Every 3 minutes and 50 seconds, approximately, the game freezes for about 7 seconds then resumes. This is also happening (not sure if same timings) on my PC at work, which is running Win2000, slightly different version of TTDPatch (2.0 Rev 1?)

orudge wrote:Try downloading dxmci.dll from http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/ - it'll likely be the music causing the problem. Put the file in your TT directory and try again.

The above seems to have worked, Owen, at least on my PC at work running Windows 2000.

Thanks very much

Lazza

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 03 Sep 2004 16:24

krtaylor wrote:Hey, did it freeze BEFORE you installed SP2? Because I've got XP Pro also and was just about to install SP2, and now you've got me worried. It's supposed to conflict with all sorts of stuff.

I've had SP2 installed for a few weeks on here and have had no problems whatsoever. (And you know that I use TTD a lot for testing the US Set.)

krtaylor wrote:BTW, Patchman, it's easy to tell which version you've got, it says so at the startup screen: XP Home vs. XP Professional.

It doesn't when you've installed SP2, for some stupid reason

. The only difference is the progress bar: green for Home, blue for Professional. Yet another Microsoft oddity.

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