A&A collecting dust/Temp work around

[Private Cyr]

at least until a patch comes out to fix the crashes. I've done a couple of things that have helped the stability a bit and I figured I would share those with you, but the damn thing will still crash mid-game, but not as often:

1.) Kill the Vitual Memory. Pending you have enough memory for your OS and A&A. I have 1 Gig so that helped.

2.) MSCONFIG and kill the startup items and only allow System Service and Startup Items (Only Microsoft startup items).

This help reduce my crashes from 4-5 an hour to 1-2. Hope that help some people.

[KingJT1955]

Hi - I like the Game, but hate the crashes as well. Since I have Windows Xp, I went to the support site (http://www.atari.com/us/support), and found a
method to eliminate, if not minimize the crashes for the game. To summarize, the article it says to:

1) Get your Latest Video and Audio Drivers.
and
2) Temporarily close your user process services via the Task Manager. This
involves using CTRL-ALT-DEL and while using the processes TAB to sort by
your user name, then deleting all your processes EXCEPT explorer.exe and
taskmgr.exe
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I created a BATCH file to do this in mass, if you are familiar with creating


a BATCH file and using it in the command prompt window, or creating a
shortcut to it on your desktop, then this will save you time.
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You can see a listing of your current task processes, by typing the command
'TASKLIST' at the command prompt, this will also give you the PID #, but
this number changes per user session.
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The BATCH file code I used is as follows:
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@Echo Off
taskkill /f /fi "USERNAME ne LOCAL SERVICE" /fi "USERNAME ne NETWORK

SERVICE" /fi "USERNAME ne SYSTEM" /fi "IMAGENAME ne explorer.exe" /fi

"IMAGENAME ne taskmgr.exe" /fi "USERNAME ne cmd.exe"
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This kills the task in one action.
additional information.
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