Hi Phil, You will be happy to know I have finally managed to get into the head master's office. One of the issues was a Windows resource issue do to too many background processes running at the same time the head masters office chapter was loading. Most of the rest of the game runs fine under the same conditions, but there must be something about the head master's office that eats a lot of system processes while it is loading. Just for your information here is what I had to unload in order to insure a successful entry into that chapter without a system crash. First, unload my screen reader. Usually, i play with the game with Window Eyes in sleep mode, but even then it uses memory and process power that was obviously too much for my system to handle while playing Sarah. So unloading the screen reader was the first half of the issue. Second, I looked around for any other applications that might be slowing down the system and eating both processor and memory. I decided that my antivirus program wasn't being used at the time so I exited it and stopped all background processes.Suddenly system performence speed up, and I was hoping that it would give my system an added boost for the game. Voila! I went into Sarah and loaded a saved game where Sarah is standing in the hallway entrence to the head master's office, started a patronis going, gave the gargoils the password, waited until Sarah announced head master's entry hall, and everything apparently loaded successfully. IN conclusion it was either my screen reader running, my antivirus program, or both that were ttaking away CPU and memory requirements in order to successfully load the head master's office chapter of Sarah. Now, that issue seams to be solved for me, and i now know if I am going to have an extended amount of time playing that game best to disable av and screen reader apps before launching the game.
P.S. My gaming desktop, the one I do most of my game playing on, has a 1.2 GHZ AMD processor, 512 MB of ram, a 80 GB hard drive, Windows XP Professional,Window Eyes 6.1, and AVG antivirus. That should give you a general idea of the system it is running on and Window Eyes 6.1 and AVG were the two applications I disabled to free up mem and CPU power for Sarah. Cheers. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
