i think i may have found the reason why my previous characters keeps crashing after leaving the vicinity of aleroth.
on my first installation, i do remember importing a DD registry file for windows ME in my pc's registry that i have downloaded. and in my eagerness to play the game and in my frustrations in encountering the crashing problems i have inadvertably overlook a small but important detail. i forgot to edit the target folder of DD's registry entry. such that in doing so, the game has been stable excepting for two crashes early in the game. i've been playing a total of 12 to 15 hours, or more. and yet to encountering a crash.
however, as in the saying that, "as a door closes, a new one opens", so does my problem with DD right now. one problem solved and two problems rise up to take to take the place of the problem solved. to one problem elaborate:
--after installing the game, i had 3 or more hours of stable gameplay. then i had to stop cuz i had to go to class.
--returning from school i continued playing for 5 hours, more or less, again the game was stable-no crashes or freezes-then had to stop cuz my cousin wanted to watch some dvds.
--after watching a dvd, i again started playing. this time, however, right after loading a saved game my pc locks up or freezes when my character had taken few steps. he can use the portal stone and teleportation device, if he is near one, to enter a new area but just a step or two would freeze my pc. and even without teleporting to another area, just move a bit and my pc locks up which leads me to restart my pc. this happens to all my save games. i tried the suggested solutions, excepting defrag and scan disk, but nothing worked.
and riddle me this, after experiencing the problem mentioned above, i uninstalled and reinstalled DD, both done manually. i then edited the registry entry and patched the game. after that i started a new character, saved it. then i loaded save from my third character and would you know it? it worked! i mean the game didn't freeze or lock up. i have been playing for 2 hours and no crashes.
second problem:
-flickering. or that's how close i can describe it. the top and lower part my screen flickers every now and then. sometimes it just disappear only to return again after a while. i never did encounter this in my previous two installation of game. could it be video card? or merely the setting? the driver is up to date, last i checked. and i have the lastest directx.
