Can Sound Errors Cause Game to Crash?
KellyQ:
I've been playing for weeks now without any problems when suddenly last night I got the Wonderful Return of the Black Screen followed by the announcement my monitor was going to sleep during the middle of playing >:(.
Looking through the Log files this morning, I see that the "AppErrors" and "AudioErrors" files have been modified at the exact same time as when my game crashed. They are all audio errors, such as "ERROR TSAudio: Failed to initialize sound" and "ERROR,TSAudio,Failed to GetSoundDefinition for sound".
I have noticed for months that the sound in my game can be "glitchy". So, as per my subject line, can sound errors cause the game to crash? And if that is the case, can I simply replace the sound file without having to uninstall and reinstall?
I have all EPS and stuff packs.
ZephyrZodiac:
I think if you load your game for one second, then close it, you will see exactly the same errors in those files - I understand they are useless data left over by EAxis.
If your PC is trying to go into hibernate mode, the obvious answer, to me, would be that it doesn't recognise that the PC is in use, and has reached the time when it is programmed to hibernate. Just turn off hibernate mode altogether, and it shouldn't happen, and you save quite a large slice of hard disk space.
KellyQ:
Thanks for the suggestion, ZZ, but my computer isn't set to hibernate. This only started happening after I installed a new video card last month. After weeks of battle and very helpful suggestions from people on MATY, I thought I had it all sorted out until last night.
I am just totally perplexed about why would it run fine for almost two weeks, multi-hours of gameplay and then just suddenly start doing it again. The only error files I can find are the audio ones so I have no other ideas. ???
KatEnigma:
Did you put in an ATI card? I have had this happen to me from time to time. I thought it was the card itself, or maybe the motherboard, but if you are having it happen occasionally too...
ThyGuy:
This has happened to me too, and it is utterly baffling. I always end up having to turn off the computer. I'm using a Radeon 9200. Piece of shit, yes, but what's sad is the intergrated card doesn't do the shit that this card does. :(
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