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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
>
This sounds like a sound driver issue.  Check for later driver versions 
for your sound card/chip.  This 'hard locked sound loop' has turned out 
to be the sound drivers some 90% of the time over the years for many 
games, including Half-Life 2 :)
HIH,
McG.