S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl problem, please help. [Archive]

Stoffel

18-08-2007, 09:38 AM

ReinHer

18-08-2007, 10:04 AM

Hmm, blackle the problem. I have a few fixes that you might try.

X-Ploding_Shoes

18-08-2007, 11:34 AM

I have this same problem, but it happens on soem other games too...I have a problem with my graphics cards fan stopping...open up your PC and check if your cards fan is spinning.

ReinHer

18-08-2007, 12:11 PM

Otherwise try adding the following to your shortcuts target line, "-noprefetching". I hope that helps, otherwise try the static lighting setting.

Stoffel

18-08-2007, 06:32 PM

Otherwise try adding the following to your shortcuts target line, "-noprefetching". I hope that helps, otherwise try the static lighting setting.

Ive already put it on static lighting, and where exactly do I add that shortcut line thing (sorry, sometimes im quite stupid when it comes to these things), and 'blackle it'? where?

ReinHer

18-08-2007, 08:03 PM

www.blackle.com

You right click on the shortcut for the game and where it says "target" you type "-noprefetching" after the directory line... also remeber to remember to leave a space after the " in the target line before typing "-no prefetching"

Stoffel

19-08-2007, 11:20 AM

thanks, but since i actualy got far enough to jump to the next map it has stopped its freezing frenzy. but it only runs well on low settings with static lighting, I thought that my pc could maybe at least play it at medium settings? and the game auto detected my pc to run it at high! or does the game just start at high.

ReinHer

19-08-2007, 12:03 PM

Yes, STALKER generally runs better on ATI cards and I have seen it run super smooth on a x1650 pro. The no prefetching tag should help alot wih loading times.

wir

19-08-2007, 02:26 PM

The no prefetching tag should help alot wih loading times.
What does it exactly do?

Because it takes me about 10 minutes to load a new section or to load a saved game.
I run it at full gfx setting, except grass shadows. If I load a saved game it'll take 10 mins to load, and a further 5 mins to smooth out; basically I mean it'll be running at 5-10 FPS then only smooth out to 30-40 after 5 mins.

ReinHer

19-08-2007, 05:10 PM

Yeah, STALKER sucks in that way. I dunno of the -no prefetching will help with the smoothing out though. What is does is it removes the prefetching of objects from the loading procedure, its safe to remove this as it was mean't to help when the game was still planned to be based in a fully load-less world. it should save you quite a bit of loading time. Other tags that are helpful include "-no intro" "-psp" (dont try the psp unless you have a very specy pc. Third person will kill older pcs.) If anyone wants to try third person just ask and I will find the camera binds, I have them somewhere.

P.S.

Third person goes well with motion blur. I haven't tried this with my new rig as the game gives **** with Vista and 8800's.

Stoffel

19-08-2007, 05:23 PM

At what settings do you guys think I should be able to run the game obove 25 fps.
ive got
2.66Ghz pentium 4 ( but the guys tried to tell me that it has some technology that makes it much faster than that, but I think they lied)

768mb RAM (I should perhaps upgrade to 1.5 gig RAM)

and an X1600pro 512mb video card

Because at the moment it about only runs well on low settings.

wir

19-08-2007, 05:27 PM

but the guys tried to tell me that it has some technology that makes it much faster than that, but I think they lied
They lied.

At what settings do you guys think I should be able to run the game obove 25 fps.
Download FRAPS and slowely set the graphics setting up, when it goes under 25 fps, set something down.

ReinHer

19-08-2007, 09:30 PM

512mb DDR2? You should at least be able to run at medium with HDR... What OS are you running?

cYn

20-08-2007, 08:23 AM

512mb DDR2? You should at least be able to run at medium with HDR... What OS are you running?

He only has 768Mb of RAM. If he had 2Gb I'd agree with you.

Stoffel

22-08-2007, 10:39 AM

512mb DDR2? You should at least be able to run at medium with HDR... What OS are you running?

Im running XP home. Would it run better on vista.

cYn

22-08-2007, 12:36 PM

Im running XP home. Would it run better on vista.

No it wouldn't.

ReinHer

22-08-2007, 03:18 PM

Haha, chances are it would not even run on vista, hoping that Fiji will fix it. I have seen the game run on medium settign with the same graphics card but with 1gb ram.

Also, there are a number of texture mods out there to increase performance and visuals. Blackle the Float32 mod for stalker.

www.blackle.com

Stoffel

22-08-2007, 05:45 PM

Thanks man, will do.
Ok so if I upgrade to at least 1.5 gig ram I would be able to run it at medium... Nice.
then I need to buy a 1gig stick of RAM, but how much should it cost me, I dont think my motherboard supports DDR2 so it would just be DDR. I dont keep up to date about prices of RAM. So what should I buy?

ReinHer

22-08-2007, 06:51 PM

Well you'd have to have a pretty old mobo for it not to be DDR2, DDR400 is kinda old...

Check your motherboard, I'm sure it is DDR2. Then buy yourself the same brand you bought up to now, with the same frequency and ****, I'd prefer it that way. Also if you go for DDR2 800mhz then go for Corsair Value or anything without a heat spreader on. If your not gonna overclock the heatspreader is pointless and If you are then you can buy your own heatspreader later on, it's like R80. Also I read that if you buy 800mhz with a heatspreader on you are paying R200+ exta for a heatspreader as it is just 667mhz basically.

Stoffel

22-08-2007, 08:31 PM

Ok ill check... my mobo(hehe) is an Asrock presscot P4i something, but ill check.
And will two different brands of RAM not work together? and if two sticks of RAM has different speeds that they run at, will they also not work together?

ReinHer

23-08-2007, 03:12 PM

They will work fine together even if they are different brand/speed but I prefer to keep everyting uniform. I think the Prescott should have DDR2. I will check for you.

Stoffel

23-08-2007, 07:11 PM

Nope I checked my motherboards manual and it only mentions DDR400... I am so ****ed at that. So I have to upgrade to better a motherboard too...
But are there even mothermoards with an AGP slot and DDR2 support cos my viceo card is AGP?

Azimuth

23-08-2007, 07:36 PM

Oh, you're in the same boat I was in a few months back. I just gave in and upgraded my entire system. :P

ReinHer

23-08-2007, 08:21 PM

Stoffel

25-08-2007, 08:04 PM

Yeah, look I know a guy who is getting a respectable system for under R5000. What I suggest doing if you dont have a lot of money to spend right now is getting a ATI X1950 Pro. It retails for around R1500 and it gives good performance for that price. I Can imagine you playing STALKER on full with that card and 1.5gb ram.

A good thing though is that with the LGA 775 mobos you wont have to upgrade your CPU if you dont have the cash.

What! R1500 for an X1950 pro! I bought my X1600 pro this year and they asked me
R1700 for it at bt-games. Im feeling really stupid right now... where can I get an X1950pro for R1500? at what store cos im there!

Oh and Stalker has some real issues, today when I loaded my game all of my stuff was gone all my items andall my guns, and it also crahed and said that my graphics card isn't compatible anymore, it must have pixel shader 1.1 support? but my card supports pixel shader 3.0???

ReinHer

25-08-2007, 08:47 PM

Sounds more like driver issues to me. I have a new issue, the game won't work with the vehicles mod installed. I'm so bummed because that mod looks so awesome.

I wanna drive to Pripyat!

About x1950 pro... I was a 'tard again, it's R1300 +- on newegg. If you buy locally its around R1800.

http://www.prophecy.co.za/asus-eax1950prohtdp256m-hdcp-compliant-p-19247.html

Also look at the HD2600xt.

Stoffel

26-08-2007, 10:56 AM

Yeah, im not in Pripyat yet cos im trying to do allot of side jobs and see what stuff i can find.

And I stil cant believe I paid R1700 for a X1600pro... if I only knew...
How much for an x2600XT?

And im most likely gonna just get myself a whole new pc.
How much would a PC cost (without screen, mouse, keyboard) when its got :

Pentium D or something.
2gig DDR2 RAM
250Gb+ harddrive
geforce 8800 GTX
a good motherboard that supports everything hopefully

ReinHer

26-08-2007, 02:12 PM

Around R9000 maybe R10000 at a random retailer.

Stoffel

26-08-2007, 05:31 PM

Thanks, I always thought such a PC would cost me at least R15000... thanks for the help.

Stoffel

26-08-2007, 09:11 PM

Hey pls help, im under the brain scorcher in the bunker trying to switch it of, but i cant get to it? there are two doors that require a code but I dont know where to find the codes? Am I missing something obvious here?

ReinHer

27-08-2007, 02:44 PM

The doors have nothing to do with the brain scorcher I think. Just look around some more and watch out for those damn squidies. After you find the switch your dude will take another nap :|.

(Edit)
My system without screen, mouse and kb had a price tag of about R12000.

My specs are as follows:
Asus Commando Motherboard
Intel E6400 CPU
XFX 8800gts xxx 320mb
Western digital Caviar SE 250gb
2gb Hyundai DDR2 (Yes Hyundai) Which is low quality but hey, vista rates it 5.9

All wrapped up in a Antec Lanboy case.

Stoffel

27-08-2007, 02:58 PM

Man I would take a PC like that any day cos im still in school(17), and its to get one's dad to buy a PC of that size (even if he has more than enough money) cos his a dad and for some reason its hard to get a dad to spend...
And he has some IT guys that do the IT for their buisness and I swear i know much more about PC technology than they do! they're IT guys but they dont know about the latest tech.

ReinHer

27-08-2007, 05:50 PM

Most IT 'guys' don't really care about the latest tech, they care about the most expensive tech. Infact one of SA's biggest hardware problems is the uninformed public that goes and spends great sums of money on **** they don't need.

Stoffel

28-08-2007, 05:02 PM

Hey man, I deactivated the brain scorcher, and moved on to pripyat, I faught a bit there and found the path to chernobyl, so I thought Id go and check howmit looks there... bt when I got there the whole bloody place is a mess and I cant find the way back to pripyat.
I managed to get to the bunker where the monolith is or something but im stuck there... Im getting my ass kicked cos I have a piece of **** armour thats on its last thread and it does'nt protect me from the radiation, and I have about no ammo left.
Im screwed! where can I find more armour in that place?
it seems ive hit an dead end, the radiation kills me every time I try to get anywhere... It seems im gonna have to start the game from scratch.
what to do, what to do...

Stoffel

28-08-2007, 06:57 PM

Im regretting not buying elder scrolls 4 oblivion, it seems now to be a much better RPG...

ReinHer

28-08-2007, 07:58 PM

Im getting my ass kicked cos I have a piece of **** armour thats on its last thread and it does'nt protect me from the radiation, and I have about no ammo left.
Im screwed! where can I find more armour in that place?
it seems ive hit an dead end, the radiation kills me every time I try to get anywhere...

Welcome to the NPP :)

Starting over is not going to help much, the end of the game was so fun because you don't have ****. Dont worry though, the end is in sight and If you can only get into the plant then there should be an Exo and some Gauss rifles and FN2000's.

If you really can't win, and I mean you load and then you die, I'd recommend loading a save from before the Pripyat story. Buy 'nades, a lot of 'nades, and medkits. Carrying an extra STALKER suit also won't be bad for your health.

Let me know when you finish/give up so I can start sharing endings without spoiling everything.

N3G4T1v3

29-08-2007, 08:49 AM

Yes, STALKER generally runs better on ATI cards and I have seen it run super smooth on a x1650 pro. The no prefetching tag should help alot wih loading times.

What does Prefetching do??

ReinHer

29-08-2007, 02:33 PM

Prefetching pre-loads object nodes from the whole world. In the Original STALKER this was necessary as the world had no transitions and was pretty much load-free. However, the dev team decided to change the game dynamics and added transition areas* and load triggers, thus Prefetching isn't really necessary anymore unless you have a really old CPU.

*By adding transition areas they also had to remove usable vehicles from the game. And by 'had to' I mean that if they sorted this out the game would spend another age in development.

Stoffel

30-08-2007, 04:43 PM

Welcome to the NPP :)

Starting over is not going to help much, the end of the game was so fun because you don't have ****. Dont worry though, the end is in sight and If you can only get into the plant then there should be an Exo and some Gauss rifles and FN2000's.

If you really can't win, and I mean you load and then you die, I'd recommend loading a save from before the Pripyat story. Buy 'nades, a lot of 'nades, and medkits. Carrying an extra STALKER suit also won't be bad for your health.

Let me know when you finish/give up so I can start sharing endings without spoiling everything.

I dont know man, I ran to the spot they gave me that said something about the entrance of the bunker to the sarcophagus, Im asuming its the monolith crystal but I havent found any siuts or ammo down their and as soon as I get a bit deeper into the bunker it displays a massage: 'high radiation do not pass without protection' or something like that, and I cant run arround outside cos theirs a blowout timer ticking of 5 minutes and theres no door out of the bunker back to the top... its got me irritated.

ReinHer

30-08-2007, 06:49 PM

Just search the place, whouldn't be long until you find the sarcophagus. And then all you need to do is climb over some junk and viola, you can 'talk' to 'him'.

Ofcourse this is the bad ending, but unless you spoke to doctor in Cordon earlier on then it is very hard to get the 2 best endings.

Stoffel

30-08-2007, 07:42 PM

So i'll never get to explore NPP? will I just talk to this guy, get my wish, die in an most unpleasant way and thats it? I would have liked it if they could make an ending and then be able to run around again, exploring, doing little tasks you ignored allong the way...

ReinHer

30-08-2007, 08:29 PM

Well, thats kinda hard... I can't say more without spoiling it for you. Just finish the game.

P.S.
Its not really a guy... Its more of a thing. And the 'make a wish' ending were much better than the true endings for me.

Stoffel

05-09-2007, 05:42 PM

Yep, I had to steart the game over I just diddnt have the armour to face a whole bunker full of monolith guys with exo's, but I havent had much time to play for a while now. And hey what happens in the sarcophogus ending? cos ill problary get another ending now? dont worry about spoiling it.

ReinHer

05-09-2007, 06:01 PM

ReinHer

08-09-2007, 08:32 PM

M'kay... A SGS STALKER server is in the near future, someone donated a copy and is only awaiting the admin's reply.

Weekend Soldier

09-09-2007, 12:51 PM

Ive got a bit of problem with STALKER. The game runs fine for a while but then suddenly it freezes. And the whole PC wont respond, so that i have to switch it of at the plug.

ive installed all the patches up to version 1.0003, and ive turned down all the settings to the lowest setting, but it still freezes.

my system is:
P4 2.66 Ghz
768 mb RAM
ATI X1600 pro 512mb AGP

what could be wrong? is it the AGP Video card? Does the game run badly on any AGP card?

Help please.
This,in my experience,boils down to either overheating(very graphic intensive this game) or an inadequate
powersupply,or both.The powersupply is something I wrote a letter about +-5 years ago and mailed both PC Format and Nag.PC Format was good enough to publish my letter.Hopefully this grants me credibility in what I am saying.The PSU is the greatest cause of most ailments that cannot be explained.They are not expensive so there is no excuse not to have at least a 500 watter made by a good brand name.Hope this helps.

Stoffel

10-09-2007, 05:45 PM

Thanks guys, I guess if I want to enjoy the latest games ill have to have the latest stuff.

ReinHer

10-09-2007, 09:11 PM

Not with every game, but STALKER has one of the most advanced AI and graphics systems around. So it puts load on almost every aspect of your system.

Today I felt pretty ****ed of with how inaccurate the VLA and Vintorez rifles were, with some serious modding I feel pretty happy with both of them. However a alarm went off in my head, I might have to remove all of these mods when I want to play multiplayer. This depends on how the server works, It is possible gun statistic docs will be kept on the server side.

I also realized that shotguns are kick-ass. With a couple of slug rounds a shotgun can be the only gun you need in the zone. Check it out.

wisp

11-09-2007, 01:22 PM

There are more than 5 wishmaker endings. Each of these ending ends in pain, one almost made me cry... sad. It depends on how you play the game, for instance if you have like 100,000RU at the Wishmaker you will want 'to be rich', you will end up 'dead'. I have found three of the Sarc. endings myself... all sad... very sad.

I chose conscioness ( excuse spelling) and although it lengthens the game i was a bit let down or should i say saddened by the ending as well...maybe i just didn't want the game to end

ReinHer

11-09-2007, 02:45 PM

Did you get into the suspicious green tank or did you fight them to the death?

wisp

11-09-2007, 03:32 PM

Did you get into the suspicious green tank or did you fight them to the death?

i fought all the way

ioiiooio

11-09-2007, 03:42 PM

Hehe, so I've started a new game, I didn't realise there were 5 different endings, Ive only had 2, there is one where you can carry on missioning around the place through portholes n stuffs, cant remember what happens after that though. Oh sorry, so I've started a new game and this time I'm fighting with everyone cept neutral stalkers, the duty guys are hella tough and of course if I want to complete a mission by visiting the barkeep I have to fight my way there, it's quite fun really, they have some super kickass waepons, like this assault rifle I cant remember the name of that normaly only fires a cetain round (white box) but which has been modified to shoot the moe wide spread 5.45 x 39 (the AK round).

Reinher, I remember you mentioned somefing about camera bindings or something, so as to see things in 3rd person, I'm guessing you enter it into te console?

ReinHer

11-09-2007, 06:33 PM

Actually it is easier to type directly into the user.ltx file. The bindings are more so you can return to first person mode when you need to talk to some for example. For the, what I like to call console view (Because the dev team say this was to experiment with the game's compatibility with the X360, PS3 and, perhaps, the Wii. Edit the shortcut and add -psp to the target line. This will enable C-view, a view shorta like Gears of War. I will take a screeny with my character.

Further there are other 3rd person views possible, I will try to get screenies of these as well.

@Wisp : Yeah, I felt more ****ed off that I turned out to be such an *******, dooming the whole planet like that. I guess we will have to wait for part 3.

@Rest : Shotguns are dangerous.

ReinHer

11-09-2007, 07:40 PM

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z187/Reinher/MblurPsp.jpg

Sorry for Mblur, I know It makes everything... well... blur. But its pretty obvious that this mode is BEAUTIFUL. There are many unfinished bits, there is no scoped aiming, no proper flashlight and no nightvision, blue or green. Appart from being beautiful the mode adds some auto-aiming into the mix, pointless unless you really have trouble aiming.

FYI
My VLA assault rifle uses clips of 50 sniper rounds, bullets which travel just over Mark 4. The VLA is a smoke-less fire-less assault-sniper rifle, which means the enemy will never see, hear or feel it coming. Very fun to watch bandits run around in confusion.

Stoffel

12-09-2007, 06:52 PM

Hey I stopped playing the game for a while cos of all the issues my PC has with running it. But I indtalled the Float32 mod and !... it runs fine, I havent tried it at higher settings though but its running like soap.
Theres no 'smooth out' time when I load a saved game,(cos usually it took the game like 5 minutes to smooth out and become playable... Awsome!