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Computer Locking up Solid in Forest

Prophecy of the Ancients

June 22nd 2003, 06:20 AM
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TheFarm
Ghost They/Them
 
Well I have tried this several times now and after I give the guy the artifact from the underground dungeon.....go through the open fence and within 2 minutes no matter what direction I go the computer freezes solid, not just the screen, I have to reboot the computer which then scans and blah blah blah..... obviously can't play any further with this happening. Any patches for this, I can't seem to find anything. The only thing I can find is perhaps there are too many things on the screen at once, which there really is. Any help here would be appreciated, the game is awesome thus far.
August 1st 2003, 04:54 PM
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turtle
Ghost They/Them
 
Did you ever get your problem fixed? I'm having exactly the same one. I hate to have to stop after getting this far. Anybody have a "fix" for this?

Thanks,

Shane
August 2nd 2003, 07:27 AM
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turtle
Ghost They/Them
 
Well, here's some more specifics on what my bright blue screen is telling me. It says that there is a problem with this file: swmidi.sys Specifically the error is: Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area

Now, I have no idea what that means. I found the swmidi.sys file in 2 places on my computer but I didn't know what to do with it. One was in my winddow dir and the other was in a I386 directory.

Anybody have any clue?

Thanks,

Shane
December 8th 2003, 12:18 PM
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xanthor
Peasant He/Him
 
I was having the same problem. Any chance you two are using windows xp? If so, change the compatibility mode to "Windows 98 / Windows Me". If you're not familiar with how this works, right click the shortcut to Dink FrontEnd Icon, then the compatibility tab, then check the "Run This Program in Compatibility Mode for:" box and in the scroll down menu choose Win98/Me. Hopefully this helps you out, and you can finally finish the mod!
December 20th 2003, 09:24 PM
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jane
Peasant She/Her
 
I tried it and it still doesn't work
June 26th 2005, 10:09 PM
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"Well, here's some more specifics on what my bright blue screen is telling me. It says that there is a problem with this file: swmidi.sys"

That's a sound card driver. When you posted that, I tried running the DMOD with sound disabled. It worked...so, I guess you have to disable sound if you are going through the forest, then once you are through you can use the Save Machine at the end to save, then restart with sound enabled.
September 24th 2005, 10:03 PM
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Droplet
Ghost They/Them
 
I had the same problem, even with sound disabled.
I solved it by downloading the oofficial patch for Dink.