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RE: Gonna have to stop buying Matrix games - 7/11/2013 1:05:43 AM

GoodGuy

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Every Matrix title I have has the same problem. As I click to do things in the game it randomly shuts the game down and I lose everything I have done for that turn.

As I click to do things the screen flickers or for a moment reverts to the opening box for the game and eventually randomly just shuts the game down to the opening box if it hasn't been already turned off, that is another problem it randomly puts the box over the game screen but I can just shut that down from the box.

I am tired of starting over all the time.

This sounds like a problem on/with your particular computer. There is no way that 26 games from one company (but from different developers) would cause the same problem, even if they would be extremely buggy.

Could you specify the word "opening box"? Do you mean the Matrix logo/animation video or the Matrix launcher/HQ where you start the program?

There might be a problem with general video playback routines/files (codec), the paging file, the main processor (overheating?), or with the system memory or the video card's drivers. It's hard to narrow things down without you providing more detailed infos.

Since it seems to "fling" back to the "opening box", it sounds like either a memory page error at a certain memory address , or a damaged main processor (CPU) would cause the issue, once complex calculations are being performed (means when you "click to do things").

Running games in windowed mode, depending on your windows installation's/computer's age, may cause that issue too.

Freeboy's hint is pretty good, btw. If you move your computer or if there's a power outage while the drive is writing to disk, especially if it's an older harddisk, there are high chances that files get damaged (magnetic structure will be corrupt), or that the harddisk gets a so-called "hard error", which is a real scratch on the drive's disk and pretty much the worst scenario. Both types of damages can result in loss of data or partially unreadable files. Depending on the size and on the location of a soft- or hard-error, such error may just affect a single dll, driver or database file, but it can also affect the stability/operation of the operating system (windows).

1. Get someone to do a harddrive surface scan, along with a file-table integrity scan (scandisk).
2. Do a memory address scan.
3. Get a CPU test program or a CPU benchmark program.
4. Defrag the harddrive.
5. Uninstall then reinstall one of the Matrix games, and see if it runs.

< Message edited by GoodGuy -- 7/11/2013 1:30:03 AM >

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RE: Gonna have to stop buying Matrix games - 7/11/2013 8:55:36 PM

Sarge

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I had this problem with HPS titles, especially Squad Battles with win 7 ��.go to your control panel and set your windows theme to basic or classic , all the bells �n whistles in 7 freaks out some of the older titles ( had it with JTCS also) .........worth a try.