game freezes after about 10 or 15 minutes
 

After playing il2 storm of war for say 10 or 15 minute the game freezes

could this be down to insufficient memory or do I just need to bite the bullet and upgrade to a new pc ( if it`s just a matter of adding some memory to keep me going for now it will give me more time to save for an upgrade )

I copied and pasted my pc specs from belaric as follows --- gaphics card is the nvidia 275 ( bit confusing below )

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600) Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.00 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-N680SLI-DQ6
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. FA 05/03/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
650.13 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
316.13 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D [CD-ROM drive]

SATA WDC WD15 SCSI Disk Device (150.04 GB) -- drive 0
SATA WDC WD50 SCSI Disk Device (500.11 GB) -- drive 1
USB Flash Memory USB Device [Hard drive] (1.03 GB) -- drive 2 3072 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A1' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'A3' has 1024 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 150.04 GB 4.24 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 1) 500.10 GB 311.89 GB free

Network Drives

Controllers Display
NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA Controller (3x)
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 [Display adapter]
ACR Acer X243W [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n LAG040084300, September 2007)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
GIGABYTE GBB36X Controller (2x)
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller ASUSTeK Virtual Capture Device
Creative SB X-Fi
Communications Other Devices

1394 Net Adapter
Marvell Yukon 88E8052 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:46
Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.1.66 / 24
Gateway: 192.168.1.254
Dhcp Server: 192.168.1.254
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:44
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:40
NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2
Dhcp Server: 192.168.1.254
Physical Address: 00:1A:4D:46:B9:42

Networking Dns Server: 192.168.1.254
Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Asus Video3D Device
HID-compliant consumer control device (2x)
HID-compliant device (3x)
USB Human Interface Device (2x)
HP Officejet 7300 series
GoFlight Virtual HID Keyboard
HID Keyboard Device (2x)
HID-compliant mouse (2x)
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator (2x)
Root Enumerator
Saitek Magic Hotkey Device
Saitek Magic Keyboard
Saitek Magic Mouse
Officejet 7300 series (DOT4USB)
USB Composite Device (2x)
USB Mass Storage Device (2x)
USB Printing Support
USB Root Hub (2x)

kind regards

paul woods

only thing i can suggest is update to win 7 and see what happens. if your computer cant run it then its time to upgrade. couple of questions though:

what settings in video options do you use?
how much memory does that vid card have?

i used to have a similar set up to that but with a better video card. got mine to run but at low frames and slideshows in busy environments (alot of fighting going on) so i upgraded

I was having problems getting disconnects/screen freeze/total lock ups, but then I bought a better computer expecting it to fix all problems.. Now, I get total lockups while flying multiplayer 50-40% of the time, and in the FMB, all the time after 10-20 minutes of building.

Don't expect a new PC to solve your problems with this broken game.

Why are you posting this when you got good advice from me in another thread
and you didn't follow it.
You have software conflict somewhere.

There are lot of pilots flying on PC's much weaker then yours.
Macro was one of them, he was running this sim on dual core and 560
and upgraded recently CPU and MoBo.

Edit: going Win 7 64bit would be the first step.

@ptwparkinson
You could lower your resolution a bit and lower settings toward mid range
because your PC is old( few years before sim came out).

If Slipstream see this thread he could help you a lot with settings
because he is flying on the similar PC without a problem.

i had the same problem,it was a bad config of the mother. check the bios

That's not a fair thing to post, I'm running this sim on a 2007 Quad 4 2.6mhz processor, on 4 gb of RAM, and a 1gb 9800 vid card on vista 32 for the most part it's a very stable game. Broken it is not. Occasional crashes, yes.

I recommend to deinstall the game for good like i did.
Just wait and hope for the next try from 777 or perhaps
the unofficial upcoming patch.

Good advice i think mcfly.

Just because something works for YOU, doesn't mean that it's going to work with everyone else's configuration. You can try to fool yourself with the wording all you want. Instead of broken, i will use "incomplete & unsupported" or "bug infested".

The truth is, i wanted (and still want) this game to run. Hell, i spent over 2g's trying to make the game work (I've got the receipt to prove it). I am quite simply warning a person that's thinking about putting money into a decision that may, or may not work.

Just take a wander through this forum and you will see that this game does NOT run error free for EVERYONE ...period.

@vranac...
And to say that I DO have a software conflict, is your guess. The only thing that I haven't taken your advice on was sending my crash log to atag, who may or may not find a problem. I just haven't opened the game more than twice, since getting the advice.

Its not the game EZ, there is a conflict in your system somewhere...OP, yes you need to upgrade If you want to stick with the game.

I knew I shouldn't have posted anything.

Good luck Parkinson

PS. Don't be fooled.

Try going to Microsoft and running the Net framework 4 installer, works better than doing a repair :)....this was/is? a common problem, the installer will fix the files :)

Unsupported? You don't say.

CloD runs okay for me.

There's the business with all the propellers (at different times on different aircraft, but most of them seem to do it) occasionally almost stopping then restarting (in about a second, which something that heavy just couldn't do), it doesn't look realistic to me. If nobody else is seeing that I'd like to know about that, but it looks as if it's meant to happen.

Friendly AI die on landing for no reason I can see, but apparently everyone gets that.

Apart from that, no problems.

Win7 64 bit home premium,

i5 2500k @ 3.3 GHz,

16 GB RAM,

HD 6970 2 GB

People are tired of trying to get this game working....

i gave up, isn't worth the effort.

Then why bother coming here and writing in a thread when its someone asking for help? Why bother come here at all? There are loads of poeple who play the game every day. Ask atag. Works without a hitch for me.

It works fairly decent after the latest patch for most folks I know. There are plenty of bugs still, but none are really a deal breaker for me.

Sometimes when the game installs User Account Controls interfere with the install. Stopping direct x and dot net frame work from installing. (game installs dot net framework 3.5 by the way, not the new 4!) However if this was the case your game would probably not start. Might be insufficent ram or some kind of fire wall, anti virus (one of our guys had a problem like that with some program called "spyware doctor" - it protected his computer by not letting him use it:) ).

A bit of a conflict when Win 7 installs nf4, and Steam comes along and adjust those files. Anyway I think that you are spot on with a software issue, or firewall. MS security essentials is a very good anti virus program that EZ should use, if he's not already...and its free!