Redneck Rampage crashes and freezes

[filipetolhuizen]

Has anyone who's been playing this game experienced this? On the second level (first episode) it crashes right away when hopping out of the water inside the tube, if the game resolution is above 640x480. There were also a lot of random freezes during the same level (at any resolution) and Command+Ctrl+Power would not even work. If someone has experienced that, please let me know. The beta patch availabe did not even let me play the next level (freezes before the level starts).

 

[Dan 7.1]

could you post some system specifications? and i'm not overly familiar with that game, have you tried running it under different acceleration methods (RAVE/Glide/Software/etc)?

 

[bluekatt]

system specifications for the game and the specifications of the machine you are playing it on

the more info the better

 

[filipetolhuizen]

Sorry, how could I forget...

My system:

B&W G3 with rev2 mobo and G4 ZIF from Yikes! 350mhz (overclocked to 450mhz with voltage boost) ATI Radeon 7000 32MB, 2 Monster 3D II Voodoo 2 8MB, system 9.2.2 in a 80GB HD (master) and system 8.6 in a 40GB HD (slave).

The game does not support hardware accelerated modes (RAVE, Glide, OpenGL or Q3D). I tried it in both systems even with extensions off, but both gave me the same error at the same place. I'm sure this isn't about overheating because when I play Shadow Warrior the CPU temp rises up to 55°C and it runs just fine and Redneck Rampage it stays at a maximum of 51°C. Even if I save a game and load it again upon the game start it would crash too.

 

[bluekatt]

and the system specs of redneck rampage ? i have several classic games who refuse to go beyond system 7

 

[filipetolhuizen]

It requests any PowerPC running System 7.5.3 or later, but recommends a 604 or G3.

 

[Quadraman]

Could it be a conflict from having more than one video card installed? I'd try it with just the Radeon installed in the fastest slot.

 

[madmax_2069]

how about allocating a little bit more ram to the game ( i use to have crashes in a few games and allocating more ram to the game fixed the issue).

But doing that doesnt work all of the time tho, but its worth a shot (if you have the ram to spare). don't over allocate the ram to the game cause that will take ram away from the system and cause a system crash or one app's memory partition overwriting the other app's memory partition.

a few other thing can cause a app to crash, like the above poster said, having more then just one video card can cause a few issues in games and other App's not knowing how to deal with having 2 or more video cards (ran into that allot with my Beige G3 AIO in my sig)

 

[filipetolhuizen]

I guess that couldn't be a RAM problem because the game came with about 40MBs allocated and I allocated more than 200MBs up to now (for both original and patched versions which still have problems) Perhaps that could be because of the Voodoo 2 boards. I actually don't have extensions loaded for those cards (as I said above, starting my both systems with extensions off still crashes the game), since they are only activated if the game requests it, so I'd rather put the extensions files in those games folders, but since this game is not hardware accelerated it does not support the cards and they're never activated. Would it still worth to remove the voodoo2 boards? Also, anyone who had experiences with the game, please let me know too.

Regards,

Filipe

 

[bluekatt]

cant hurt to try

sometime s games voodoo works in mysterious ways my sims 2 installation refused to run with the downloads folder in place and suddenly after a reinstall it decided to work

 

[filipetolhuizen]

Again, tried it with no luck...

Any other ideas?

 

[bluekatt]

err try running it in system 7 ?

 

[filipetolhuizen]

Unfortunately, system 7 is incompatible with the B&W. Any other ideas?