Crash to Desktop at match start - common problem!

[yamomma]

Seems alot of people get this particular error, all with different specs:

Start any kind of match and the match loading screen comes up. After a few seconds, fifa 2005 crashes to desktop.

Personally, I think I have done everything in my might to get it to run, short of buying a new graphics card.

All drivers are the latest, from BIOS on up.

My graphics card passes all test in dxdiag.

Have killed as many background processes as possible.

Have tried to set system resolution from 800x600 all the way up to 1920x1440 and then run the game.

Have tried to use all the different available game resolution modes. It seems 32bit is off in all modes, except 640x480 (!?!?!)

Game runs perfectly until I start to actually play a match.

What are the major changes to graphics engine in 2005 compared to 2003? FIFA 2003 runs like a dream on my machine....

Please help!!!

System specs:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ 1670.4
MSI K7N2 NForce2 Motherboard
System Memory 512.5
DirectX Version 9.0c
Display Device SiS 315_315E
Display Memory 128.0
Display Driver 6.14.10.3540
Sound Device NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Sound Driver 6.14.0442.30

 

[yamomma]

please, i'm going crazy here! :P

 

[stext2003]

What kind of third party stuff are you running? bigraptor, ballrevo etc

 

[yamomma]

none, whatsoever.

I have even disabled all non-critical windows services using services.msc!

 

[gished]

is it possible for you to install win2000 on your pc and try it on that? I have a problem where I can't get more than 2fps (even on the menu or when its loading up! ) but my pc is well and truely above minimum specs, and drivers + bois are all up to date.

I ended up setting up a 2000 partition and the game works perfectly fine (except the controller issue which is being battered around by everyone else).

I suspect it has something to do with XP SP2, but I can't be bothered reinstalling XP again to test it out. That and the fact every other game I've got runs sweet with sp2.

 

[yamomma]

wow.

SP2 bug. That would seem to hold true with other people I have spoken to regarding this.

Now, I dont have 2k lying around, but win95. Its worth a try. I'll report back with my findings.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[henryhill77]

when i installed the updates and Service Pack 2 for XP my game crashed all the time during matches.. I uninstalled service pack 2 and it now works better. also Display Device SiS 315_315E
didn't do me any favours.. I bought a new graphics card... now my problem is to try the game from crashin when makin subs with boot raptor installed

 

[SuRFy]

I had that problem i ran Defrag of some sort and it got fixed.

 

[yamomma]

Hmmm.... No option for me to uninstall SP2 and my machine runs like a dream and obviously everything is defragged to the max.

Just comes to show that the game is poorly programmed. Short list of compatible hardware, lots and lots of people reporting errors. EA has grown too big for its own good.

Im going for Pro evolution soccer instead....