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Call of Duty (Freezing Problems)

post #1 of 4
9/6/04 at 10:30pm
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Hey how are you guys/girls doing (being politically correct) I am a new owner of a XPS laptop and loving it. I installed UT 2004 with no problem the game runs like a dream. My next game was Call of Duty great FPS stratedgy shoot em up game. I installed it cleanly but when i play it freezes up at the oddest times. I went to the activision.com/support website and followed the instructions (reducing the hardware acceleration/reducing the resolution/etc.) worked for a little while then started freezing again. if you have any ideas holla thanks....
XPS 3.4 Ghz pentium 4/ 1GB RAM/ ATI 9700 128MB video card/
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post #2 of 4
9/6/04 at 10:59pm
I downloaded the first demo (not dawnville) and had the same issue. I would be playing and then it would just lock up for no reason.

I downloaded the Dawnville demo and had no problems.

I toyed with my drivers (version, omegas) and now I can play the first one okay now.

Seems to be driver or game update related. Keep tweakin on it and you'll get it.

I found the ATI catalyst 4.7 work pretty good (havent tried 4.8 on CoD)

Hope this helps.
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post #3 of 4
9/6/04 at 11:03pm
You are obviously using the Dell stock video drivers, aren't you. Even the newest released ones are still causing this, although I am not sure why. If you disable hyper-threading in the BIOS, it will work fine. The better fix is to install the Omega drivers. They have yet to cause a lock-up for me. You can get them here. Just make sure you uninstall the ATI control panel first.

Good luck and welcome to the club.
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post #4 of 4
9/7/04 at 1:59pm
Yes get the omegas, all of your problems will be solved... no performance reducing necessary!
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