FO freezes up after you pick starting admiral

posted on April 17th, 2009, 5:30 am

I downloaded FO an hour ago and installed and started an instant action game as the feds, but the game freezes after the scout is launched from the starbase. I can hit escape and it'll take me to the menu just fine so its not a ctd and the game isnt really frozen, but my mouse won't move and nothing else happens. I have a 1.9ghz amd athlon 64 dual core processor with a nvidia geforce 7000m/nforce 610m running a 32 bit install of windows vista premium. Anyone have any suggestions here?

posted on April 17th, 2009, 8:06 am

welcome to the forums!
does the same happen, when you try to play in windowed mode?

posted on April 17th, 2009, 8:44 am

Actually I uninstalled fleet ops...and it does the same thing with the stock game.  Nooow I'm confused. I'll try windowed mode though.

posted on April 17th, 2009, 9:09 am

i have another idea that might work for you.
run fleet operations
hit ctrl + alt + del and start the task manager, there under the processes tab look for armada2.exe. right click on it. click "affinity". then disable one of the checkboxes there and so limit armada to one core only. switch back to armada, start a game and see if you get any improvement...

posted on April 18th, 2009, 3:41 am

Nope, if I go to single player it'll start the cinema movie but as soon as it completes or I hit escape to get out of it it freezes. I can still access the menu, the game just wont go on...

posted on April 18th, 2009, 10:35 am

so, have you tested with both windowed mode and that core limiting?
hrm, could you please go to Start - Run type dxdiag click OK, then, on the bottom of the program, click Save All Information... save the file and attach it to the forum please