Pinball Woes

[DanDMan]

I am trying to install Pro-Pinball: BigRace USA by Empire Interactive on my Wife's Win2000 machine and seem to be having issues.

The game installed just fine and seems to work, however mid-game, it freezes and crashes/closes. I managed to capture the text of 1 error message:
The instruction at 004672a1 referenced memory at 5910d530
The memory could not be written

Click OK to terminate the application
I have already downloaded and installed the patch file to v1.18

Attached is an excerpt from the error log entry created...

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

[SpywareDr]

Shooting in the dark here ...

How much RAM in your system?

How much RAM on your video card?

Have you tried running the game after closing most of the items in the SysTray?

[DRead]

Run a memory diagnostic to check your RAM is ok.

try these:

Memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com)
Windows memory diagnostic (http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp)

[DanDMan]

Running 1 GB of RAM.

Not sure about the video card... It is an old ATI Radeon - I think 32MB.

Then again, the game is pretty old too. 1998 I think.

I will try to test the RAM just in case though.

[DanDMan]

Long-overdue update.

Ran the memory test and all passed with flying colors.

Haven't had a chance to test the game again yet, however I do not expect anything to change as, well, nothing has changed.

:D

I guess the next step is to try and run the game on my Wife's computer....

[igual]

only thing i can think of is graphics card is strugeling have a look in event viewer see if there are any errors in there maybe that can shed some light on the subject
what version of direct x do you have ?
old games and latest direct x can cause problems
also what about pc temps ?
run everest http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en
and check system temps befor and during the game

[LDThornton]

Try running it in 640 X 480 resolution if you are not already. Only other thing that I can think of is to uninstall your graphics card in safe mode along with the folder and contents that may be left behind after the uninstall. Re-install graphics card. Always uninstall grahic cards in safe mode before updating graphic card drivers. May not seem to do any harm not uninstalling but it will catch up with you. Games being messed up is an early sign......