The Longest Journey Freezes at Load Game

Leeny1122 · 01-20-2005, 10:38 PM

Hi, I'm lovin' playing TLJ. It just crashes a lot -- hard. I have to manually shut down. My specs are:
AMD Duron Processor
256 MB RAM
VIA Technologies onboard sound
Asus nVidia Geforce FX 5200 128 MB Video Card
Direct X 9.0
Win98SE
80 GB Hard drive (55GB free)

I get confused about drivers. The VIA Sound worked fine with Syberia. I got the driver from the VIA Arena using my exact model number. Windows Critical Update Notification wants to update it, but I won't do it. When I've done it before it caused problems. Maybe I need to do it for this game?

The nVidia driver confuses me because there are all these choices on the CD that came with it: WHQL driver, ASUS driver or nVidia driver. Then there is a choice for AGP miniport. I use the driver from the giga-byte website.

This is what worked for Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and for Syberia. I'm pretty sure. Had to completely install a new hard drive. But, I think it's all the same.

Any suggestions would be great. Until then I will just remember to save a lot!

Peace,
Leeny

VoodooFX · 01-24-2005, 08:51 AM

Well i haven't experienced any mayor problems with the game when i was replaying it few months ago.

The best thing to do would be this:

Uninstall every single driver(display, sound...) from your system

Install the newest motherboard drivers from makers website directly, install every option, from IDE drivers to AGP mini port drivers.

You'll probably have to download sound driver seperatly, but it should be on the same page anyway, at least that's common practise.

Download latest official Nvidia Display drivers for your OS (Win98SE) from their website, don't touch thouse found on CDs, since they tend to be old anyway.

Try it and report back. Everything else looks to be in order, you have more than enough disk space and RAM.

01-20-2005, 10:38 PM	#1
Leeny1122 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 3	The Longest Journey Freezes at Load Game Hi, I'm lovin' playing TLJ. It just crashes a lot -- hard. I have to manually shut down. My specs are: AMD Duron Processor 256 MB RAM VIA Technologies onboard sound Asus nVidia Geforce FX 5200 128 MB Video Card Direct X 9.0 Win98SE 80 GB Hard drive (55GB free) I get confused about drivers. The VIA Sound worked fine with Syberia. I got the driver from the VIA Arena using my exact model number. Windows Critical Update Notification wants to update it, but I won't do it. When I've done it before it caused problems. Maybe I need to do it for this game? The nVidia driver confuses me because there are all these choices on the CD that came with it: WHQL driver, ASUS driver or nVidia driver. Then there is a choice for AGP miniport. I use the driver from the giga-byte website. This is what worked for Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and for Syberia. I'm pretty sure. Had to completely install a new hard drive. But, I think it's all the same. Any suggestions would be great. Until then I will just remember to save a lot! Peace, Leeny Share Share this post on Twitter

01-24-2005, 08:51 AM	#2
VoodooFX Grumpy & bitter man Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Slovenia Posts: 1,171	Well i haven't experienced any mayor problems with the game when i was replaying it few months ago. The best thing to do would be this: Uninstall every single driver(display, sound...) from your system Install the newest motherboard drivers from makers website directly, install every option, from IDE drivers to AGP mini port drivers. You'll probably have to download sound driver seperatly, but it should be on the same page anyway, at least that's common practise. Download latest official Nvidia Display drivers for your OS (Win98SE) from their website, don't touch thouse found on CDs, since they tend to be old anyway. Try it and report back. Everything else looks to be in order, you have more than enough disk space and RAM. Share Share this post on Twitter __________________ We may have days, we may have hours, but sooner or later we all push up flowers.

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