Crash- not sure what to do

[matc4]

Had the game for a few weeks now worked fine mostly, tried it today, downloaded an update, got to legal/title screen before the cinematics and the game just crashes.

Have tried Reinstalling and Uninstalling/Installing and the problem persists.

I was wondering if anyone else has this problem and if they have found a fix to it?

[Constantin_the_Great]

this is the second patch now and i find they weigh up fixes with the introduction of new, more exiting and fanciful bugs!

but i would try manually deleting your user files: c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\Empire

they should be recreated automatically, but you will lose your saves if you delete them too of course.

I conquered half the world and am considering wiping my saves.

I needed to after the first patch.

[matc4]

Tried this just finished re-downloading patches etc, still have the exact same problem.

[PinkFloyd76]

I can't even get the game to start! I get the first screen and it's loading and then it goes white and back to the desktop and sasy windows wants to report an error message. I've tried everything, updating drivers, reinstalled 3-4 times, multiple reboots, playing offline, launching the game any way possible and it's always the exact same crash. help!

[matc4]

Yeh, thats the exact same i'm getting. Really annoying me now...

[PinkFloyd76]

At least I know I'm not alone... I'm debating whether I should try a reinstall Windows XP but that's such a colossal pain in the arse. Sega support is basically useless but I wonder if the game developers are working on this...

[cunobelin]

What are the full specs of your computer?

[matc4]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual core 5000+ 2.61GHz
2GB RAM
512MB Nvidia GPU

Thats all i know, but like i say the game ran fine on ultra up until this crash started.