Enemy Territory

[Rashid584]

Hi,

First of all: Yes, I've googled for solutions to this problem and searched the forums, but they all appeared to be a problem with similar symptoms but different cause.

Basically, when I start et up, if I click to skip the intro video, it freezes for about 2 minutes, and then goes to the main screen. If I click on the buttons e.g. "Play Online" it freezes and plays the same split-second of music over and over again until eventually it loads the server list screen. In fact, clicking anything except the exit button has the same effect.

Its not a graphics card problem I don't think, because I have an FX5500 with 3d enabled, and I get 2000-3000 FPS on glxgears.

I've played et before a lot, and it worked fine all this time until today, it spontaneously started doing this :S

Thanks.

-Rashid

[twa1296]

yeah, i've got a similar problem. the intro movie starts but the game freezes before entering the menu.

i've been playing et on this setup a lot and i've never had any problems. since yesterday however, it spontaneously started freezing. this seems strange since i haven't updated anything.

i've reinstalled it, gotten it to work once, then after a reboot encountered the same problem again. every installation since then failed.

3d acceleration is working fine otherwise, other games pose no problem.

[maxx_730]

Ive got exactly the same. It just started doing it today. All i can remember having done recently was installing the slab and some kernel update. Maybe it was the kernel update? Imma try 2.6.15-25 again now.
EDIT: Just noticed that -25 isnt available in the repos anymore.

[Rashid584]

I don't think its an update, because I haven't updated anything!

I tried re-installing it, but the same problem occured. This is really really weird, seeing as it only starte yesterday/today and we have exactly the same problem.

Well, at least I know I'm not suffering alone :p

I wish I'd given this thread a more appropriate title so the people with a solution/explanation would bother ot take a look :$

edit: BTW, when it freezes before the menu screen wait for about 2 mins and it'll load up the screen, but with the problems I described (thats what happened to me when I though it had completely frozen)

-Rashid