TheUniversal Causes My PC to freeze

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TheUniversal Causes My PC to freeze

Post by ElderGod »

Well,title says it all.
I been having this problem since last year and i could never find a reason for it
Nowa days i dont even play,i only log on so i wont be deleted
Anyone know why this is hapening ?
Any help would be highly appreciated.


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Post by zaroba »

more info needed.

since your able to log in, i'm assuming the game doesn't immediatly lock up.

are you playing in full screen? if so, try switching it to windowed. it might just be that an error message is popping up behind the game and causing your pc to appear locked up since you wont be able to do anything until you click the error message that can't be seen or accessed.

is it happening in space only? on worlds only? both places?
if its in space, all systems? if its only in 1 or two systems, it might be a bad graphic.

if its on worlds, does it happen on all worlds? if its only on one or two worlds it could be a corrupted model/texture or the worlds settings. the sky setting to use a texture over the sky has been known to cause some computers to crash.

if it's on all worlds and the galaxy, make sure all your video card and sound drivers are upto date. it could be that something got corrupted.
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Post by ElderGod »

Yeahh,Its on All worlds and the entire galaxy,The thing is i dont no how to fix it,i run in Windows Vista,and i only know how to do so much without help
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Post by Baladin »

I had the same thing today, i was playing one second, the next i started it up and then it froze my pc and i couldnt get to task manager or get anything to run. I know it was running in the background however, and i was able to click on it but The Universal was covering the screen so i couldnt see what i was clicking on. Keeps doing this to me.
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Post by Malkiah »

PLEASE REFER TO THIS TOPIC!

http://theuniversal.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49688

It will solve the problem. =]

If not get back to me.

-Malk :)
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Post by Baladin »

Ah yes foolis steps worked, found an image file called unknown and deleted. Thanks.
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Post by ElderGod »

Okie,Thanks
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Post by jmoyet »

hehe thats why i always prefer playing games in windowed mode... so in case they freeze i can open task manager and kill the frozen game
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Post by Baladin »

Yeah thats the thing i went to click close and i ended up enlarging the window to full screen and then everytime i went to minimize it, it would crash instantly.
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Post by jmoyet »

that sucks..

When it comes to TU its good to check the forums if you havent played in a while to know about any new crashing bugs.
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Post by Baladin »

Yeah true, also an EM worked on me the other day and it disabled my ship for like 10-15 seconds, when did they start working again XD ?
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Post by jmoyet »

no clue.. i havent been in a space battle in months
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Post by ElderGod »

Ive had EM's work on me and other people befor

But recently i havent been in a space battle,juss like jmoyet
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Good to see everything worked out for you guys, hope to see you ingame.

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