How does your Empire crash in battle?

**yankeepyrate** · March 24, 2009, 10:31 AM

After overhauling my pc during the past few days (driver/bios updates for whole system, defrag, reg clean, spyware removal, etc) I've noticed a solid improvement in the game performance overall...but I still CANNOT get through a land battle without CTD. Every single time it crashes about 7-8 minutes into the battle. Doesn't matter if there are lots of units or hardly any.
The weird thing is that the performance is totally fine until the point of crash. There are no signs of stuttering, chugging or hiccups, no visible degradation of performance. The game just instantly dumps me back to desktop several mins into battle.

I could well be wrong, but this leads me to believe that it's related to the coding in the game, and not my system.

**TSD** · March 24, 2009, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by yankeepyrate

After overhauling my pc during the past few days (driver/bios updates for whole system, defrag, reg clean, spyware removal, etc) I've noticed a solid improvement in the game performance overall...but I still CANNOT get through a land battle without CTD. Every single time it crashes about 7-8 minutes into the battle. Doesn't matter if there are lots of units or hardly any.
The weird thing is that the performance is totally fine until the point of crash. There are no signs of stuttering, chugging or hiccups, no visible degradation of performance. The game just instantly dumps me back to desktop several mins into battle.

I could well be wrong, but this leads me to believe that it's related to the coding in the game, and not my system.

Theres been rare instances of it crashing just as i enter or just as i leave a battle. usually (im trying out the memory leak workaround now) after a few battles I will join a battle the game starts chugging, then crashes, or once i enter a battle i get the insufficent video memory notification.usually after 3 battles or so, I just restart the game anyway to avoid the crash.

So have you been able to complete a single battle ever? Even a quick battle from the main menu?

**cherryfunk** · March 24, 2009, 12:15 PM

I never had a battle crash, not once. I've crashed when starting a battle on the campaign map, but never once the battle engine loaded.

**Spaxspore** · March 24, 2009, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by cherryfunk

I never had a battle crash, not once. I've crashed when starting a battle on the campaign map, but never once the battle engine loaded.

Same

**yankeepyrate** · March 24, 2009, 01:23 PM

TSD, I have only completed one battle, it was a brief skirmish to capture Fort Niagara, I believe it's chapter two of RTI. I can't recall anything different about that battle vs. my other ones.
I tried the quick sea battle from the main menu, CTD. Haven't tried a quick land battle from main menu yet, but will.

**Groove74** · March 24, 2009, 01:25 PM

I am getting CDT's in all game modes.

**Turbo** · March 24, 2009, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by yankeepyrate

After overhauling my pc during the past few days (driver/bios updates for whole system, defrag, reg clean, spyware removal, etc) I've noticed a solid improvement in the game performance overall...but I still CANNOT get through a land battle without CTD. Every single time it crashes about 7-8 minutes into the battle. Doesn't matter if there are lots of units or hardly any.
The weird thing is that the performance is totally fine until the point of crash. There are no signs of stuttering, chugging or hiccups, no visible degradation of performance. The game just instantly dumps me back to desktop several mins into battle.

I could well be wrong, but this leads me to believe that it's related to the coding in the game, and not my system.

It is 100% the poor coding in the game.

You did a lot of work for nothing to get Empire running. There are dozens of different PC configurations, graphics cards, etc. that can't run this game in a stable manner. I went from not being able to run the game to after the second patch getting to the end of turn crash. No idea yet if the battle system works or not.

**yankeepyrate** · March 24, 2009, 02:50 PM

I think you're right, Turbo. For the time being, guess I can only fight small battles that I know I can win or lose within 5 minutes before I get CTD!