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I have the dual jewel version of Descent 3 (I got it for Christmas from a friend a few years ago because the old version I had wouldn't install anymore). On the dual jewel D3, level 10 of Descent 3 Retribution always crashed when entering the room with the "nodes" for uploading data. Now I'm using the version of Descent 3 that I downloaded from here (which is patched to 1.4 instead of 1.31 like the dual jewel). Now level 10 crashes outside, just before the Juggernaut or the heavily armed area. I used to use the level warp cheat to unlock all the levels after level 10 (there was a way to do that by exploiting a bug in 1.31), but in version 1.4 I can't even do that anymore.

The frustrating part is that all my favourite levels are after level 10.

I'm also too scared to try to beat Mercenary level 3. Any robot with Mass Driver terrifies me. (It was the same with the fusion bots in D1).

There aren't really enough other quality single player levels without terrifying bots that I haven't already played to death. Besides, I tend to prefer multi-level missions rather than standalone levels.

D3 Retribution level 5: What was the composer thinking with this level? The music clashes embarrasingly with the story of the mission.
To be honest, I think the coolness of the level 11 music would make up for that, if I could only get to that level. Grrrr...

Alter-Fox wrote:
I have the dual jewel version of Descent 3 (I got it for Christmas from a friend a few years ago because the old version I had wouldn't install anymore). On the dual jewel D3, level 10 of Descent 3 Retribution always crashed when entering the room with the "nodes" for uploading data. Now I'm using the version of Descent 3 that I downloaded from here (which is patched to 1.4 instead of 1.31 like the dual jewel). Now level 10 crashes outside, just before the Juggernaut or the heavily armed area. I used to use the level warp cheat to unlock all the levels after level 10 (there was a way to do that by exploiting a bug in 1.31), but in version 1.4 I can't even do that anymore.
The room with the nodes is the room with all the seeker mines, right?

I don't know why level 10 crashes on you, but we found out that many crashes are due to bugs in the sound drivers or just limitations.

"Our" Descent 3 differs from the original installer in that it allows more sound sources simultaneously. I remember tinkering around quite a lot to find an appropriate setting and this could cause you trouble now.

Start the Windows registry editor (regedit) and go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Outrage\Descent3". There's a value called SoundQuantity.

The original Descent 3 installer puts 30 (decimal) in this registry value, the one from here uses 40. This number tells Descent 3 how many different sounds it can play.

If you enter an area with more than 30 robots, the orignal Descent 3 doesn't play any sound. That's why I increased it to 40. When I tried values above 60 the game crashed here too on my old PC.

You could set the value of SoundQuantity to maybe 20 or even less and see if works then.

Im not this far yet. Ill listen to the music after I passed those disgusting trains.

Ive reached level 10 now I think. How do you get through this heavily armed area? Someone or somethings killing me as soon as I get close to it. I cannot see any bullets or lasers. Two bangs and i'm dead.

It must be the big canon. You can hear a weird sound as it fires. Just hide from it.
Keep close to the terrain. Or play level 10 in coop to see how to stay alive near the canon.

Ya, that was it Thanks.

Maybe this helps you feel a bit better :

I've played this level so many times that I lost track on how often, but I did not know myself that the cannon shoots until Mzero told me what I have to do to become its target.

I always thought it's the MD tanks that hit me.

LMAO