I Can't Move...controls lock up

[zsepthenne]

I can play the game for awhile, but after awhile I am sometimes strangely thrown to the edge of the world staring at blackness or I have no range of movement at all. I am baffled, I admit. I have had a few crashes but those have mostly dissappeared after getting Direct X 9.
Specs:
AMD Atholon 800
GeForce 256
SB live
394 of RAM

I have the newest drivers for my video card also. The 45.23 one. I don't however have the newest media player. In spite of hearing so much trouble with the GeForce cards I haven't had any graphics problems. Unless spinning out of control and being unable to move is part of it?
Any help appreciated!

[Nemesis]

Sounds like the problem I had when my first computer (a 486DX) became too slow for some games. If it ran out memory (both RAM and video) the mouse pointer was "reset" to the bottom left of the screen, after which the computer started to rattle as though it could fall apart any moment! If I was lucky I could continue the game after a while, otherwise the reset button was the only option. Maybe that's your problem as well...

[zsepthenne]

Well I think I'm pretty sure this is a graphic card issue with this game. Went to friend's house and ran the game on two different systems.
Specs for system 1:
1Ghz AMD
256 mb ram
GeForce2
running Win XP with DX 9 and win media player 9
result.......game was choppy on the intro movie but ran fine during the tutorial gameplay.No crashing

Specs for system 2:
Pentium 3 600Mhz
256 mb ram
ATI 9600 pro
running Win XP with DX 9 and win media player 9
result.......ran great on the intro movie..saw things i didn't see before...game play was smooth during tutorial. had trouble recovering desktop after ending game play...win xp wanted to send an error report to Microsoft. please. Is there a poor intern who really reads those?

what this means for me? a new video card..now if only i had the money. sigh....

hey my brother had a commodore 64 and when it would run hot he'd actually take the cover off and set a table fan facing it!

[Nemesis]

Hmmm... your video card's specs are a bit low indeed. Maybe you're right and is buying a new card the only option.
Tip: if you're a (die hard) Ghost Master fan, don't buy a GeForce. There are known issues with GeForces when running Ghost Master.

If also have a Commodore at home (installed in 1980!). It hasn't even got a harddisk or PC speaker!
And also in my collection is a complete BBC Home Computer set (1978, with printer!!).
Though I only keep them as nostalgia they still work fine.

[systems]

Nemesis333mhz said:

Tip: if you're a (die hard) Ghost Master fan, don't buy a GeForce. There are known issues with GeForces when running Ghost Master.

This is funny isn't it - Ghostmaster is part of the heavily funded "Way it's meant to be played" program. If that's the way it's meant to be played I'm glad I've stuck with ATI.

A GeForce 256 is fine for Ghost Master. Just make sure you run at 800x600 and don't enable Anti-Aliasing (use the Detonator "High Performance" mode in your driver control panel).

[Nemesis]

It get's even better Systems: nearly all cards causing graphical problems seem to be GeForces! Maybe they think Microsoft? Like, a program should crash at least once an hour?

[Kitty Kitty]

Well, there's also the simple fact that Gefocre cards are hands down the most common card in the PC market right now.

Have been since the Geforce 2 killed the old Diamond Monster line as kings, and no one's de-throned them as of yet.

Not saying they're necesarily the best, but there's a LOT of them out there.. so it stands to reason that the majority of issues are going to be "with Geforce cards".

That May or may not indicate an Nvidia conflict.. there's a lot of factors to consider before we can be sure of something like that.

-Kitty

[Nemesis]

You may well be right on that, but keep in mind there's a lot of Radeon users out there, who seem to have next to no problem (or just don't report it). But indeed, there are just too many factors...