S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Message Board  

gigles.. Thats what you get for trying vista lol

Okay I found a fix on one of the boards that has helped my freeze rate dramatically. Apparently Stalker does "Prefetching" of memory in order to make the game's load times more spread out and less noticable, but it also is what accounts for many memory overloads (freezing) and longer loading times. Just add the command line -Noprefetch to your game short cut's target text. I.e., right click shortcut - properties - type -noprefetch after the text in the target box

Hope this helps some of you.

Stupid unneeded comment. Its not MS's fault, that GSC can't program a game so it runs on Vista. MS is only giving the OS and the basic platform. And it runs great for me without the trainer. So i assume its your crappy computer which makes it crash every now and then. Most computer-problems sit in FRONT of it.

cmon guys the game works fine hav u ever heard of to good for pc i had this problem then i turn graphics dwn alot and never crashed or so much as a jitter apart from when i tryed to use xfire on loading game screen that mad it angry

Ok frist off all the problems ur haveing i no wat it is its on the offcial forums of S.T.A.L.K.E.R now they have a huge topic open for this should go on there they have 2 things on the topic that helps n also another thing i found out also the game DOES not like any ATI drivers it seriously hates them so before to go into ur game do CTRL+ALT+DELETE n go under processes n turn off all ur ATI programs if u got a ATI drive that is but check out the offcial forms they seriously got stuff on there that fixs it i can play the game for hours if i wanted to whit out any freezes

Ive had STALKER a while ive never had a crash