Hi Tom, The headmaster's floor is the only one in which I put you into a small room then spin you around while the level staircase sound is playing. I do this for those with surround sound but maybe the effect uses too much processing power. It is almost like the game only uses a small part of your memory and crashes if you go beyond that. Just like in the old DOS days. I will make the level changing opening just a simple mp3 sound in the next patch. Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] SCW Head Masters Office > 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] > > > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.10/1638 - Release Date: 8/27/2008 > 7:06 PM > > --- 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]
