Salem Crashing Constantly, not Java 7 / Enders related

[MagicManICT]

This looks like a video driver crash. Make sure your video card drivers are the most up to date. Also make sure your motherboard drivers are up to date, too. Given the age of the card, you might have no choice but to replace the video card if possible (I know you can get an HD 2xxx or HD 3xxx card for an AGP socket for relatively cheap--under $50 US.) I seem to recall a couple other problems with the pre-HD Radeon cards under specific circumstances with Salem, but don't recall the posts off the top of my head or the models.

[MrGemini]

my drivers are up to date, and i didnt find any new drivers for my graphic card since 2009. watch above i dont have windows 7 i use xp
but thx for trying to help anyways =(

[MagicManICT]

I didn't figure there was a newer driver than that. (Surprised there's one that new for that card.) Have you considered using a third party driver? I was using Omega Drivers while I had a Radeon 9xxx card (support fell off and I finally upgraded my video card). If possible, I really would encourage you to upgrade your card.

[MrGemini]

Never tried a third party Driver yet. I uninstalled CCC and installed Omega Drivers now. Same problems as above, nothing different, crashing the whole time. Do i perhaps set something special in Omega Drivers? There are so much Settings in it, perhaps something there helps?

[MagicManICT]

Specifically, the conflict is in the OpenGL support of the driver you're using. There's a lot of things you can try, but I won't even pretend to know what every setting does without some research on the Internet. You might try using an older driver as sometimes a bug pops up in a part that was previously working right.

Did you make sure to clear you old driver out first? There are free utilities around that will help with that. If not, your system could be trying to access the same driver as a file won't get necessarily get overwritten or have the references to it removed by the usual processes.

[MrGemini]

I`ve overwritten every file when the pc asked for while installing omega. But just uninstalled ccc from Ati, which Tools do you mean which clears all drivers? Then ill try that and install th Omega drivers again. Which Setting in Omega could help to get the OpenGL error out?

[MagicManICT]

Check out a site like download.com and look up a utility to remove old drivers. I've used a couple of different ones in the past and most of them work about the same way. I believe I have used Guru 3D's utility and Driver Sweeper in the past, but I can't recall (those two at least seem familiar) and don't want to endorse any particular product.

Again, my knowledge of various settings doesn't go that deep as to know which settings might help (quite possibly none will). Tinker with things if you feel comfortable doing it. If something "breaks" you can uninstall the driver and reinstall it. (Might need to boot to safe mode in a real emergency.)

[MrGemini]

Okay, i did all you said now. Ive deinstalled all whats written with ati and ccc in software. after that i used driver sweeper 3 times to be sure to get every file which still excists. Installed Omega after that. There wasnt any question to overwrite - so registry and ati drivers were clean. Cleared my Java Cache also. Now i am really at a loss. Started all Salem Versions i have - crashs.

Tried to use some Settings in the Omega Tool for Open GL - no difference. The funny thing is - when i started the game the first 3 days, all was normal - i was able to port to Boston and Home and go into Houses - no crashs. It just beginned after one week of playing (thats why i tried to clear Java Cache). And the crashs are getting more and more terrible and more often. Any other way which could help please? =(

[MagicManICT]

Well, if you were playing fine for a few days before it started crashing.... I might have had you do all that work for nothing I'm not sure if any client updates were in there that might have changed these things, though.

[Shoi]

The only other thing I can think of is to uninstall all the clients and reinstall everything. But sometimes if you can't fix it you gotta deal with the problem :/ and keep going.