Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!parc!biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca!mjscott From: mjscott@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Mike J. Scott) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom.reviews Subject: Re: Rebel Assult Crashes...alot. Date: 15 Jun 1994 13:29:47 GMT Organization: Heart Valve Lab, Robarts Research Institute Lines: 48 Message-ID: <2tmvob$hsq@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> References: <1994Jun7.181026.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca In article , PENNINTON B. wrote: >In article <1994Jun7.181026.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> cmk11@jaguar.uofs.edu writes: >>I'v played Rebel Assult on no less then 3 different systems and I run into the >>same problem on all of them. All 486's from 25 to 66. With boot disk..without >>and yes I am remembering to not load the things I should not be loading. >>HIMEM..ect.... > >> The game crashes....it crashes alot...it crashes at the worst moment. >> it crashes in the beginning..it crashes near the end. > > >You are not alone. I have played this game many times and yes it crashes it >crashes it crashes. I have tried everything setting jumpers, changing >interupts, removing memory managers. and it still crashes. >One thought my IO card has a games port so I have dissabled the game port on >the sound card, I was told that if I put a standard IO card in and put a CH >games card I mwill have less problems. Well, I understand that some folks might be having problems with R.A., but my (limited) experience has been very good. The first time I ran it the joystick performance was a bit jumpy, but rebel17.zip cured that. My system is a mish-mash of stuff: Generic clone, 486slc2/66, 8Meg, PAS16, Mitsumi FX001D, internal 14.4k modem, Trident 8900c video, Novell DOS 7 with stacker 3.12, emm386, sound card driver, Novell cache, IRQ cdrom driver and mscdex 2.2 running. I figure that if R.A. can run without _any_ problems (all the video is completely smooth - no jumps!) on my system, it can probably run on most without major problems. I'm sure most folks have tried this, but are you _sure_ you have no IRQ (or DMA) conflicts? Have you tried running it with a stripped system? Do you have enough memory available? Are your TSR's optimized and loaded in the right order? Have you tried the latest R.A. patch? (I think it's rebel18.zip). If you've done these things and the program still doesn't work properly, then there are either bugs in R.A., or in your computer. Good luck and happy gaming! ciao, -- Michael J. Scott R.R.I., U of Western Ontario mjscott@heartlab.rri.uwo.ca 'Need a good valve job?' ############### Illegitimus non tatum carborundum. ##############