Computer Restarts

**osamapl** · April 08, 2008, 04:35 PM

When i start a battle in Medieval II Total War the computer will restart after few seconds. I picked a smaller map which will need less resurces and it played few seconds longer. The game is really laggy for the few seconds its played even on the lowest settings. How ever when i press autodetect settings it gives me the "High" option which has better graphics and it runs the same way like i would put it on low.

Other games seem to run good without problems.
I dont know whats the problem here.

-Temps are fine. 40C CPU, 45C GPU
-Tried reseting ram and took a slower one out and still problem pressists.

What can i try to get that game going?

Processor: AMD Athlon 3000+
Motherboard: A7N8 DELUXE ASUS
Cooling: Zelman CPU Fan , 3 Case fans zelman gpu fan with heatsink
Memory: 512 KINGSTON
Video Card: x1600pro 512 AGP
Harddisk: 80GB sagate 2x = 160 gb
Sound Card: sound blaster audigy 2
PSU: antec 500watt

**irishron** · April 08, 2008, 05:07 PM

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srl. This will tell you if your system can run it and how well.

**osamapl** · April 08, 2008, 05:11 PM

Passed on both recomended and minimum

**irishron** · April 08, 2008, 06:06 PM

Have you updated the game to 1.2? They say a lot of the battle problems were solved in it.

**osamapl** · April 08, 2008, 06:54 PM

yes i have the newest version 1.3

**osamapl** · April 08, 2008, 07:17 PM

i picked the map grassy plains and picked 80 soliders and it still crashed 2 secs after game loaded WTFFFFFFFFFFF

**AlfonsoVIII** · April 09, 2008, 09:42 AM

How dirty is the inside of the case? Is the processor fan dusty? Are you using Vista?

**osamapl** · April 09, 2008, 04:13 PM

yes it got some

load of dust on it , but i dont see anything wrong with it the temps are at 40c cpu and gpu when i logged them ingame diding go above 50c

**Nicholas H.C** · April 09, 2008, 10:04 PM

The same thing happens to me but in Rome Total War, Havent tried M2TW yet.

**AlfonsoVIII** · April 10, 2008, 01:17 PM

Can you test your memory, I knowingly put in bad RAM in my computer and it only restarts the computer if I try to play certain movies. I see you took out memory, is your setup 2x256? Trying new memory in different slots or switch slots.

**Snarlox** · April 13, 2008, 04:35 PM

I have a similar problem with my computer restarting within two seconds or so of loading a battle. I get to the opening and see the troops on the field for maybe a second and then my computer restarts and I get the message that "A serious error has occurred."

I justp ut in a new video card, a Radeon HD 2400 Pro just to play this game. I've tried reinstalling MTW2 and updating all of my drivers and playing with game settings but it won't work for some reason.

**irishron** · April 13, 2008, 05:04 PM

Are you sure your rig can handle the new card without overheating? Are you sure your power supply is big enough? On some of ATI's cards, these are things in their card specs.

**AlfonsoVIII** · April 15, 2008, 09:59 AM

If you have an ATI card it is a known issue and you need to download the latest driver for your card as well as Microsoft .NET framework 3.5.

Dont assume your temps are correct and if there is dust, then clean it anyway. I really cant provide help unless you clean out the dirt since that will cause it to overheat when the game is played and cause it to restart.