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Discussion: Red Orchestra: Ostfront / Red Orchestra - Technical Support & FAQ - Beta crashing on startup - may be video card? - I've seen a couple posts about having trouble starting the beta. On my first attempt,
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03-06-2006, 02:52 AM #1
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Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
I've seen a couple posts about having trouble starting the beta. On my first attempt, my pc crashed and rebooted. On subsequent attempts, my screen will shut off and there's no activity on the HD/CPU (the work light doesn't light up), resulting in a manual reboot.
Has anyone here had this issue? What did you do to resolve it?
I think it may be a video card issue, with an odd resolution to start the app (I have a widescreen LCD TV that I play through). I noticed there's a Launch Options tab for the game in steam. I'm thinking I might be able to set a custom resolution there similar to BF2's widescreen command line workaround. If that's the case, does anyone know the syntax/command to enter there? Or am I off entirely?
I would've posted this in the proper beta tester forum, but I can't log in there at the moment...
Thanks.Beatnik
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03-06-2006, 11:52 AM #2
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
i dont have the beta RO, but I did have a similar problem trying to play steam games on my lcd..i dont remember what I did, but i believe I updated my drivers.
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03-06-2006, 03:01 PM #3
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
Beatnik, to narrow things down and make sure it's not a resolution issue, can you set your Windows desktop resolution to something like 1024x768 and then see if RO launches? If it works, at least you know what the problem is and can work on it from there.
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03-06-2006, 04:14 PM #4
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
I did try that, but it looks like it might be a ZoneAlarm issue. I'm going to try to uninstall that and see what's what. Thanks!!
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03-06-2006, 04:37 PM #5
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
Good luck!
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03-06-2006, 05:15 PM #6
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
Get it fixed Beat so we can shoot you.
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03-06-2006, 06:29 PM #7
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
I have the solution...sending you a PM, Beatnik...
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03-06-2006, 06:31 PM #8
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
Did not know you could send C-4 in a PM.
Originally Posted by Coridon
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03-09-2006, 10:25 PM #9
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
lol Thanks for the PMs guys. Obviously I got it worked out. BTW (to anyone reading this a week from now) it was a Zone Alarm issue. Uninstalling ZA with a couple extra steps cleared it right up.
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Re: Beta crashing on startup - may be video card?
I'm not willing to uninstall ZoneAlarm. I'm going to see if this update has fixed the bug, though!
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