strider Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Hey nice site. I spent the day looking around the site and came upon a 10 page thread about the same problem. My PC used to run Battle for Dune without a hitch. Now no matter what I have tried it will run the disks but will randomly freeze/lock up to the point where I have to Ctrl, Alt, Delete., or pull the plug. The Harkonnen disk lets me play the longest, up to 2 missions before I have to restart. The Ordos freezes 30 seconds into the first mission. I have shut down my firewall and anti-virus programs, turned off shadows, lowered my graphics/ game speed/ mouse speed. Nothing so far helps. I went and bought a 512 stick of RAM but it didn't help. Now the thing I have noticed is, when I first d/l'ed the install disk way back when, it installed fairly fast (a couple of minutes) this was when I made it through the Atreides missions without a hitch. Later on after playing other games like Red Alert2 and Renegade I went back to Dune and it locked up so I just didn't play it. I have now re-installed it and read these forums and can not for the life of me find a fix for this freezing up. Any suggestions are welcome, I'm stuck. Man what a first post. Oh by the way I was surprised to find this site. EBFD is a great game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megashrap Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I'm sure there are plenty of peeps to help you out, but this really got my attention some... when I first d/l'ed the install disk way back when, d'loaded? :O :-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strider Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 Ya you know take the instal disk out of rhe jewel case and put in pc to install game to hard drive. Thats what I meant by d/l'ed. Sorry if I wasn't clear on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Nice answer ;)Drivers have been updated ? Have they changed since the first time you installed ? Sometimes emp doesnt like new drivers too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strider Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Well after messing with the sound card drivers and video card drivers to no avail I am giving up and reformatting. Will probably change from '98 to xp pro. Thanks for the limited assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erjin999 Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I wish you limited success ;)Joking. Seriously, Good lcuk with that, hope you get it going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strider Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 Thanks Re-erjin999 ;D I'm not giving up though. I have moved my ranting to this thread. http://dune2k.com/forum/index.php?topic=17551.0This person discribed what was happening with my system to a tee. Hope someone is able to correct his problem. Than maybe I'll be OK as well. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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