HELP! Intermittent freezing
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I've been having an issue the past few days that is making my Arabel fix a bit difficult… Intermittent freezing (program not responding) and unfreezing of NWN, seemingly by random, for a few seconds at a time. Occasionally it crashes, but not every time. This happens from the moment the Atari splash screen loads (which leads me to believe it's an issue with NWNmain.exe). It happens regardless of multiplayer or stand-alone. This is a new issue that I didn't have the last time I played NWN on a regular basis (approx. 5 mos. ago), despite having no significant system changes during that time.
I've done everything that I can think of from clearing out Overrides & haks to a complete reinstall--windowed & full screen mode, every available resolution; changing audio settings; running through Virtual PC XP Mode; changing Client CPU Affinity; turning Threaded Optimization off in my NVidia control panel... I'm out of ideas.
I'm running an HP EliteBook 8560w with Win7 Pro 64-bit on an Intel Core i7-2720QM at 2.2 GHz with 8GB RAM with 71 GB free space on my C partition, and an NVidia Quattro 1000M with 2GB dedicated video RAM. Needless to say, the obvious answers like XP compatibility and Admin have already been taken care of.
Any new suggestions or ideas?
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This happened to me as well, on my PC. It doesn't happen on my laptop.
It's some kind of hardware of driver issue, I think.
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I am willing to help troubleshoot for you, for free. This is a service I offer to all Arabellians who can't play or play properly. PM me or find me in IRC.
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I would say it's graphics card compatibility, though how to fix it…. dunno.
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That was my first thought as well.
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For a start that looks like a productivity card, and this old game hates even new(er) gaming cards, and tends to have some SERIOUS graphical errors when run on integrated mother board cards (especially the common intel ones.)
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Issue seems to have been resolved, almost by accident. Adjusted compatibility mode to WinXP SP2 (as opposed to SP3) on ONLY nwn.exe and nwmain.exe, and my desktop shortcut to nwn.exe, but not the ancillary programs. What difference that made, IDK, but the freezing stopped. C'est la vie.