Game Crash only During Battle

**The.Delegate** · April 23, 2010, 03:03 AM

Does anyone know anything about the game crashing only during battles? I can play the campaign as long as I want and it's totally fine, but when I go to personally do a battle half the time it crashes in the first five minutes and the other half the game continues on. I don't know what's causing this; it seems totally random.

**karamazovmm** · April 23, 2010, 07:28 AM

dxdiag

post your temps when playing ( for this ue rivatuner for the green msi afterburner for the red) speedfan for the cpu)

and do post what setting you're using

and have you fiddle witht the catalyst CC and let the AA, AF, for application control?

**The.Delegate** · April 23, 2010, 05:48 PM

Hmm thats a good point, I'll try lowering the graphics settings. Although I'm not sure that's it, since I've fought battles with 7-8000 troops present and it didn't crash, while other times it will crash if there are 1000 troops on the field.

Dxdiag had no problems.

I'll monitor the temps when I play next.

I left the Catalyst CC on application control, yes. Using a Radeon 3600 series.

**karamazovmm** · April 23, 2010, 06:53 PM

glad that there was no problem in the dxdiag, now could you post it?

**irishron** · April 23, 2010, 07:01 PM

Microsoft thinks it knows Microsoft but knows nothing about Empire. Please post your dxdiag.

**The.Delegate** · April 23, 2010, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by irishron

Microsoft thinks it knows Microsoft but knows nothing about Empire. Please post your dxdiag.

What exactly am I supposed to post?

**irishron** · April 23, 2010, 11:14 PM

Dxdiag.

Vista/7 version: click start > type dxdiag > enter. When the box comes up, click the "save all information ' button on the bottom of the box. Save it to desktop and post the text file here.

**The.Delegate** · April 24, 2010, 12:21 AM

Originally Posted by irishron

When the box comes up, click the "save all information ' button on the bottom of the box. Save it to desktop and post the text file here.

Ok this is what I was confused about.

**irishron** · April 24, 2010, 08:52 AM

Your Vista is three years out of date. Run Windows update manually and install all software updates until it says "There are no more updates".

See if there are any new drivers for your motherboard.

Your graphis drivers are a year old. Update them.

Something Vista knows nothing about: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en.

**The.Delegate** · April 24, 2010, 07:47 PM

Ah yes I hate the automatic updates, it always annoys me so I turn it off and update it once in awhile when I remember.

Alrighty I'll do the updates and get new drivers and such, hopefully will make a difference. There's gonna be a lot of updates if it's three years out of date!

Thank you for the suggestions.

**Dearg143** · May 11, 2010, 11:30 AM

I'm having the same problem of the game randomly crashing during battles. Can reload a saved game and play the same battle over again and it doesn't crash. Seems to be related to the complexity of what's happening in the battle.

I would however, like to offer the opinion that if it's related to drivers, it shouldn't be. I ran (and still run) all the previous TW games on a computer I built in 2002, running a single core AMD Athlon 2500+ processor, with 1GB PC2700 RAM. XP Pro. They all run fine at almost max settings. I have never updated drivers on that computer.

I just built this computer a month ago, specifically to run ETW, as I figured my old computer couldn't run it at high settings (and I was running out of hard drive space). This comp has a core i5 Lynnfield with aftermarket cooler, 4GB DDR3 ram, 9800GT GPU. Running 32 bit Windows 7. No, I haven't updated any drivers.

This isn't a rant. I would like the game to work without bugs, but judging from the number of discussions on the net, the programming on this game, compared to the older TWs, is not what it should be.