Max Payne In Xp

[Maverick340]

Does max payne give probs in XP...ki mewan any1 experiencing any hitches??
It runs fine till the time payne sees his wife dead but after that it quits before loading to the 1st chapter...
Whats wrong???

 

[KHUBBU]

u r only 15 yrs old and probably u r using cracked version of mp.

 

[enoonmai]

It doesn't matter if you have a legal version of Max Payne or not. I've got a legit Max Payne installation and patched to v1.05, but everytime the game starts, it loads the menu properly, but no matter if you click New Game or Tutorial, it just starts loading and quits to the desktop halfway. This wasn't the problem before SP2 and before you tell me its my computer, I've personally seen the same problem on 12 computers running SP2 with exactly the same problem. The problem is that it somehow makes a restricted system call to the 16-bit subsystem and then locks up. To this date, I don't know of a workaround. No point in trying the compatibility mode even. A lot of people are facing the same problem, and while it runs for some, it doesn't for the rest. Apparently, its been fixed for some people when they turn off the sound, but where's the fun in that?

 

[djmykey]

Hmm my friend is not able to get it working on a plain xp install. Now byte that.

 

[shwetanshu]

me too is not able to play MP after first level

 

[enoonmai]

No known fix as of now. Microsoft acknowledges a compatibility problem with Max Payne 2 : The Fall of Max Payne and SP2 even though it works properly for 99% of the people, but neither 3DRealms nor Microsoft have a fix for Max Payne.

 

[Maverick340]

As a confirmation:i am using leagal max payne and leagl XP without SP2

 

[KHUBBU]

Then

U may be 15 yrs old but u r surely using a legal version of mp Sorry

Try mp2 its much better than mp. no problem in sp2.

 

[enoonmai]

LOL, MP2 is better, but then, you cant really say "stay away from MP1" I for one would give anything to fix this error once and for all without having to change OS. Pity I had to dual-boot a computer to Windows 2000 just for playing some games.

 

[sms_solver]

u should give yr system configuration
like mb, ram, processor and so on

 

[techno_funky]

there are some patches released by Remedy (developers) catch em on google

 

[enoonmai]

Please dont get me the wrong way, but we already listed in a couple of earlier posts that the v1.05 patch DOES NOT fix the error.

 

[ctrl_alt_del]

MP2 without playing MP1? Nah, I wont recommend that to anyone. With games like MP which are strongly story driven, it will be bad choice to play MP2 first. I will always recommend going for MP1 first.

Infact I will suggest that one always tries to go in the order the series was published. That makes you familiar with the story and also how a game has matured over the years.

 

[girish_b]

i never happened to meet with a problem in MP. It worked fine on my Athlon XP 2100 with xp .

 

[DKant]

Same here. Altho I've got a PIII 866MHz procy. Anyways, guess we're lucky.

And oh..just 4 the record - it's a legit copy of MP on an illegit copy of XP.

 

[DKant]

Huh. What a day! It stopped working all of a sudden. Of course I forgot to mention that MP was the first thing I installed. At that point, it was working fine. Then, after installing about a dozen other software/games, it stopped! I don't understand.

It says:

"Your system is low on virtual memory." and that MP somehow interfered with the page file resizing, causing it to crash. But, even after I set the page file size to 384MB (I've got 128 megs of RAM), I get the same error. DAMN DAMN DAMN!

 

[enoonmai]

Feel lucky that you're at least getting SOME error message. All that happens in my case and with my friends is that the intro cinematic loads, then the menu, and if you click New Game or Tutorial, it begins loading the game and when the red bar loads halfway, the game just quits to the desktop without a single error. Turning off the sounds loads the game, but then, the sounds play all right in the menu, so I dont know what's going on. I wrote to their Customer Support, they advised me to reinstall DirectX, the game and then Windows in order (ha, ha, really funny) It doesnt even register an error in the Event Viewer. And to add insult to injury, it works like a dream on Windows 2000.

 

[DKant]

Well actually MP says "Runtime error. Abnormal program termination". 'twas XP that gave me the details.

But having to install a second OS just to play ONE game is plain ridiculous!

Hasn't anyone figured out the problem in three long years? This is silly.

 

[enoonmai]

To figure out the problem and fix it, you first have to acknowledge there is a problem in the first place. Neither 3DRealms nor Microsoft thinks there is any problem with the game and Windows XP in the first place. I remember one Microsoft representative commenting at a place that there weren't "sufficient cases to consider that this was indeed a bug." I just play the game on another computer now, never felt the need to install the second OS on the same computer when one more was already running it.

 

[DKant]

Neither 3DRealms nor Microsoft thinks there is any problem with the game and Windows XP in the first place.

Trust those guys to....oh well.

I just play the game on another computer now, never felt the need to install the second OS on the same computer when one more was already running it. Very Happy

Lol. Ur lucky. And guess what? I got a 20gig HDD with 3gigs reserved for Linux, and all my other partitions so well arranged and so brimming with beautifully organised data, that it wld be a Pain () to install another Win OS. Curse it all.