Re: Unreal 2004 Demo freezes

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From: goPostal
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:09

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"Paul Schmidinger" <email.on.website.nospam@eigelb.at> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> the UT 2004 demo freezes after some time in battle (it can take from a 
> couple of seconds up to 1-2 minutes). It freezes during "normal gameplay", 
> I see no connection to a special event in the gameplay. The game freezes, 
> a short sound-loop remains, no task-manager working, got to make a 
> hardware-reset...
>
> Now, I really like the game, but of course I'd like to avoid buying it and 
> then see it freeze again. So, does anyone know if that is a known problem 
> of the demo (and is there a way to fix it?) or is it likely the game 
> simply has a problem with my PC and the full version will have too...?
>
> Any help appeciated,
> Paul
> -- www.eigelb.at
>

Can you post any error screen, or does it just simply hang?

Sounds like a video driver issue. Have you reloaded your drivers lately?

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