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I recently bought an Atom N2600 netbook for ultraportable productivity, but mostly for gaming (please, no trolling about how netbooks suck). I immediately installed AssaultCube, hoping to spend many hours shooting bots on long trips. :) Problem is, AC crashes right before the setup menu appears. I can get to the loading screen just fine, and I can see which map is being loaded, but after that, I get a 'Win32 Exception: 0xc0000005' every time. The following bracketed address changes with each occurence. I have no idea what this means, and I'm hoping one of you can help me out.
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The most common problem are outdated graphic drivers. Which graphic chip does this netbook have?
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It has the Intel GMA 3600. It's infamous for having terrible driver support, so I'm not surprised that's why AC crashes. Guess I'll go to Intel's forum and see what I can do there.
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Do you get any output text in the console (the black window :) ). If so, could you upload a screenshot?
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That looks like a graphic-related problem indeed. It crashes as soon as 3D stuff is being rendered.
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Thanks for your effort, but I already have that driver. I've posted to the Intel forum, and found that I'm not the only one with a problem. The drivers in general are just unfinished.[/u]
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Sorry to hear ...
You could try getting Linux working on your netbook. Intel graphic chips got nice support there.
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If I were to get Linux to work, I would only use it for AC. I don't need it for anything else, and frankly, it's just not worth the effort.
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What brand of netbook is it, HP, acer ?
How much free space on the SSD. Netbooks use ssd right?
Solid-state drive.
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It's a refurbished Gateway LT4004u I got from Newegg. I've updated the BIOS from 1.03 to 1.08, if that means anything.
Actually, no, most netbooks don't have SSD's. I have a 250 GB HDD with 158 GB of free space, at the moment.
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The computers at my school have the same error problem. They should have decent graphics cards, if I'm not mistaken. The funny thing is, these computers run Halo CE nicely.
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Paraphrased: "I have a netbook and I won't run Linux on it"
Wait, really? Netbooks can run on something other than Linux?
Hehe..
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Yes...with 2 gigs of RAM. :D
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Oddly enough, I can run the original Cube with no problems whatsoever, and it's very playable.
