Now I can't get D3 to run on XP

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 8:47 pm

My setup:
FX 5900 - latest drivers
nforce2 chipset - latest drivers
512Meg ram
2500 Barton @ 2050
XP pro - latest updates
I finally installed D3 (after reinstalling XP last time) along w/ 1.4 patch. There are two problems. It's freezing after playing ~5 minutes, requiring a reboot. Also, sometimes when I start D3 it displays the big sun, then instead of displaying the menus, it minimizes itself and displays a little message: "Generic renderer failure". (I'm using OGL)

I read the other thread about D3 and XP and I tried disabling the onboard sound (I don't have a sound card). But that I still have the freeze problem. I've tried changing some bios settings like 'disable agp fast writes', but no improvement. btw, other games (half-life and tron 2.0) play just fine.

Any ideas?

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:04 pm

I got past the renderer problem. I usually run some earthlink software called 'Task Panel'. When I exit that, D3 starts normally.

I'm still having a freeze problem, although I can now play about 10-15 minutes before it freezes I intalled Merc and MSI's graphics drivers (instead of nvidia's). I can't tell if that helped. I still have onboard sound disabled.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:49 am

System Temps? GFx card GPU too hot?

Tried older drivers?

Tried removing GFx card from device manager and reinstalling?

What kind of lock are you getting?

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:30 am

AGP apeture size?

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:00 am

I think the aperture size is 64M, whatever the usual default is.

Haven't noticed any temp problems. The card is supposed to have temp monitoring - there is a 'core slowdown threshold' of 140. Also, other games work OK.

I haven't noticed a pattern. The game just freezes and I have to reboot. I suspect some other process is interfering w/ D3. E.g., I notice there are 8-10 norton related process running constantly.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:22 pm

8 to 10 Norton processes?????

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:58 pm

Yep, I have anti-virus, firewall, various ad, spam, pop-up blockers, ...
who knows what else norton does.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:00 pm

I seriously doubt it, but could Norton's firewall be causing the problem?

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:21 pm

Who knows?
D3 wouldn't run with my earthling software.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:06 pm

Try turning NAV off?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:19 pm

Tyranny wrote:I seriously doubt it, but could Norton's firewall be causing the problem?

not to mention Nortons Firewall is a POFS. go get Zone Alarm or Black Ice and you wont have a single problem playing D3 online

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 4:57 pm

Ace, I have Norton Internet Security, and I have absolutely no trouble playing D3 online. As long as D3 is allowed to access the Internet, it has no trouble running behind the firewall.

De Rigueur · Post by **De Rigueur** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:20 pm

I installed the new nvidia drivers.
I rarely play MP so I can disable Norton. The reason this came up was a guy was stuck in a SP mission and I was trying to help him get through it.

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:52 pm

Have you installed the latest drivers for your motherboard?

Try lowering the Anti-aliasing setting on your card.

Turn off Vsynch in your video drivers and in D3.

Try updating your BIOS as a last resort.

In your BIOS, set your AGP Aperature to 64.

Type MSCONFIG in the RUN box and disable anything that is not needed at bootup. Reboot.