IW Freeze With Looping Sound

[Kneo24]

I had recently purchased the Deus Ex package off of STEAM.

I ran through the first one with very little hickups.

In IW, at the character selection screen, when I hit OK (the check mark), a black screen appears, and the sound loops. I can't do anything and have to manually shut down my PC.

System Specs:

AMD X2 4800+
4x 1GB Kingston HyperX
GeForce 7950GT KO Superclocked
A8N SLI-Deluxe Mobo
XP64

(Yes, all of my drivers are up to date, and so is Windows.)

[Catman]

Try this suggestion from the Eidos solution center for Thief III:

It is very likely that you have a Dual Core processor, such as an AMD Athlon 64 X2 or an Intel Pentium "D" which is the cause of the problem. The solution is to set Thief III to use only one core. This can be accomplished by entering the Processes tab of the Task Manager when the game is running, right clicking each of the Thief III-releated processes (T3Main.exe, T3.exe), selecting "Affinity" and unchecking one of the CPUs.

Same procedure, just look for the Deus Ex IW processes.

[primer]

I got not dual core but intel pentium 4 with hyperthreading technology, do i need to just have it run on one cpu. I get crashes too. Got nvidia driver 94.24 whql. Thats the new driver with gpu heat level indicator.

[Kneo24]

Try this suggestion from the Eidos solution center for Thief III:



Same procedure, just look for the Deus Ex IW processes.

I tried playing with the affinity, and even setting priority. I have tried playing with the video settings in game, but that hasn't helped fix my problem either. I haven't tried every possible combination, but I don't feel like spending a few more hours trying something that may not work. If there's some settings that people are using that seem to work a little better, let me know, I'll give those a shot.

I got not dual core but intel pentium 4 with hyperthreading technology, do i need to just have it run on one cpu. I get crashes too. Got nvidia driver 94.24 whql. Thats the new driver with gpu heat level indicator.

If you have a single core CPU, I doubt there's even an option to play with the affinity. The driver you have seems a little old, unless you have an old video card. The latest driver that I have is 162.18.

[Kneo24]

Here's My DxDiag:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 10/4/2007, 17:23:55
Machine name: MIKE
Operating System: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (5.2, Build 3790) Service Pack 2 (3790.srv03_sp2_gdr.070321-2337)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 3072MB RAM
Page File: 462MB used, 3958MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.3790.3959 64bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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DirectX Files Tab: The file d3d9d.dll is a debug version, which will run slower than the retail version.
Display Tab 1: No problems found. DirectDraw test results: All tests were successful. Direct3D 9 test results: All tests were successful.
Sound Tab 1: DirectSound test results: All tests were successful.
Music Tab: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found.


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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7950 GT
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0295&SUBSYS_C6373842&REV_A1
Display Memory: 512.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0011.6218 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 6/29/2007 00:43:00, 8148736 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: n/a
VDD: n/a
Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
Mini VDD Date: 6/29/2007 00:43:00, 8429696 bytes
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-41D5-11CF-B843-3CE600C2CB35}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0295
SubSys ID: 0xC6373842
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_B ModeMPEG2_C ModeMPEG2_D ModeWMV9_B ModeWMV9_A
Deinterlace Caps: {6CB69578-7617-4637-91E5-1C02DB810285}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YUY2,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{6CB69578-7617-4637-91E5-1C02DB810285}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(UYVY,YUY2) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{6CB69578-7617-4637-91E5-1C02DB810285}: Format(In/Out)=(YV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(YV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
{6CB69578-7617-4637-91E5-1C02DB810285}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_PixelAdaptive
{335AA36E-7884-43A4-9C91-7F87FAF3E37E}: Format(In/Out)=(NV12,0x3231564e) Frames(Prev/Fwd/Back)=(0,0,0) Caps=VideoProcess_YUV2RGB VideoProcess_StretchX VideoProcess_StretchY DeinterlaceTech_BOBVerticalStretch
Registry: OK
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
DDraw Test Result: All tests were successful.
D3D7 Test Result: n/a
D3D8 Test Result: n/a
D3D9 Test Result: All tests were successful.

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Sound Devices
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Description: NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: NFORCE_VAD
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Type: WDM
Driver Name: nvapu64.sys
Driver Version: 6.14.0465.0000 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
Date and Size: 7/26/2005 08:07:48, 599680 bytes
Other Files:
Driver Provider: NVIDIA Corporation
HW Accel Level: Full
Cap Flags: 0xF5F
Min/Max Sample Rate: 200, 100000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 20, 17
Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 16, 16
HW Memory: 0
Voice Management: No
EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
Registry: OK
Sound Test Result: All tests were successful.

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DirectInput Devices
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Poll w/ Interrupt: No
Registry: OK


My DxDiag did not have a section for input drivers.

[Catman]

I didn't have enough information to find the exact sound driver, but it appears the last drivers were released in July 2006, so your driver may be out of date.

There's also a more recent video driver (September 28, 2007).

Updating this might help.

[Kneo24]

I did manage to get the game to work.

First thing to note is that ASUS did not have any updated audio drivers for my motherboard. I did however try to reinstall them.

I also upgraded my graphics drivers.

However, I think what actually fixed it was installing the dual core optimizer from AMD, which I should have tried in the first place. The reason I didn't try it was because I've often found that installing things like that to fix one game can break all of the other games I have. Fortunately, this was not the case.