hi

installed splinter cell on pc - applied crack - then i load the game and i get message critical error.any help would be top.
system is 256mbsdram geforce 2 p4

i tried it on a few friends system which are all basically the same as above - which did not work either.

but it does work on mine....the only difference being i have ddr ram - is this the problem do you think?

thanks in advance

So whats the problem? It works on yours but doesnt work on theirs? Are all the pc specs up to job? In the gfx department, I expect splintercell to be graphics hungry. Could try downloading the patch again, maybe from a different site.

Is it a back up?

yes m8

Splinter Cell is a VERY demanding game. I have a Radeon 8500 gfx card, and 512 mb ddr ram, an Athlon XP1800 and I still get the odd twitch and lock up when playing it. I would have thought that 256mb sdram and a Gforce 2 card would struggle a lot with Splinter Cell.

Have a look at the Splinter Cell Forum.
There are lots of problems with this game.
http://www.splintercell.com/us/forums.php

I have a 32 mb card, does anyone know if thats the reason it crashes straight after the first screen.

I don't think 32mb will be sufficient enough to play splinter cell. As stated before, it is a very demanding game. I had to play with medium details settings with an athlon 1.33GHz, 384mb ddr, and geforce 3 ti200 64mb. If i set it to high, then i will ocassionally see slow frame rates.