Help- Game Crashes or Freezes

[bucksball]

I have had Live 03 since it has been out. No problems with framerates up to this point.

Today- when I go to load a season, I can go to the game, the jump ball, and then it's 5 vs. 1 and as soon as one shoots the ball, the game freezes, with the error message, NBA LIVE 03 has caused an illegal problem.

I have searched the site and went 4 pages deep and I did everything possible with checking to see if vid card is directx 8.1 enabled. That's ok.

650 Pent 3, TNT2 Nvivia, 196MB

I received Links 03 for XMas. That game froze as well. I emailed Bill Gates CS and they stated they had issues with later Nvida releases. They asked me to go through all this troubleshooting, and as a last resort, install the 30.82's. I did that and the game now works. Wonder if this is it.

I played a game of Live on Sat.(2 days ago) and there was some choppiness to it and some freezes for the 1st time. It did play through, though.

I cannot get to the Patch page, I have tried and tried and I have enabled everything to get to it. I still get the errors found page. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

[bucksball]

any help, please?

[Full Surface]

Upgrade to DX9 to see if it works.

http://www.microsoft.com/directx

Hope that helps.

[bucksball]

thanks zeroblade, i may try that. Ea is telling me I have to update my nvidia drivers. I had 40.71, and Microsoft Links doesn't work with those drivers, so, decision time. I'd rather play live.

[sq322]

upgrade the drivers for your card
you should be fine
I dont think DX9 will make a difference
Upgrade your nvidia drivers from voodoo files website.
search for drivers for that card