ET/RTCW crashes

[tking]

I've been setting up the shiney new laptop: amd64-3000 mobile cpu, built in radeon 9700, 512 mb or ddr333, windows xp sp2. It's a barebones Asus A2K.

It'll play HL2 or Counterstrike Source all day, but when I try and load up my old favs Enemy Territory or RTCW, it plays for about 5 minutes and then crashes on me. The casing around the radeon 9700 gets HOT, then I get a big lockup.

I would have thought that hl2 or css would have been much bigger resource hogs - ET and RTCW are old and I would have thought the radeon would have just chewed them up.

Has anyone heard of problems with the wolfy twins crashing? Any advice?

I like playing the new stuff, but there's nothing like sinking into a good ol game of wolfy.

[Baddog]

The Radeon is not playing well in the laptop....Bowman1964 had the same problem with an xt800....the geforce will get you better results with the AMD64 in a laptop:cool:

[tking]

It seems to have more to do with XP than the radeon. I've wiped the laptop and put W2K on it. Both games run fine, as do the newer games. They all seem to benchmark a bit better too.

I guess in their never ending upgrade cycle, RTCW and ET have fallen by the wayside.

If you're having trouble with them, put them on a w2k machine. They run faster than they did on XP (?) and don't crash.

Isn't the future wonderful? I wonder if M$ gets a kick back for encouraging obselecence in games... :rolleyes:

I'm left wondering why XP is considered such the bong. Wouldn't a simplified, non-test version built on the same, very stable architecture (NT) be better for most people? W2K is a nice OS without the bling, but with all the stability and functionality.

More than ever I'm thinking that XP is for people who need the crutches (and don't mind upgrading to all new software every six months)...

[Rabbitrunner51]

Tking...very good points..and well illustrated.

I have a Nvidia card and have played both of the wolfie games ( funny way to put it.. ha ha),and I get no such problem and I also have both of the HL2 games and play them alot also.

May have something to do with driver versions as when a company updates a game ,the latest drivers or differnet ones for each card maker might not be up to par for each driver set.

Yes..I agrre with the concensus that with XP,although it is a nice OS...it has always been bogged down with so many little things..and registry entries that from time to time seem to have conflicts with this or that... Just a very complicated OS esp. with the upgrades and add- on entries for wahtever comes along.

Alot of people seem to agree that W2K was a good OS and I guess its fortunate that those who have it can still use it today.. Windows 98 is being phased out soon...and for yur sake..lets hope W2k lasts a bit longer.:eek: ;)