Crashing During Battle

Hello All,

I'm new here, so hello to everyone!

Here is my issue, I'm hoping someone can help as i am scared that if i buy Shogun 2 the same issue may persist.

The game starts with no issue, and i am able to start a campaign. While in the Continent view i have had no issue. The problem happens randomly while i am in a battle. My PC will freeze completely forcing a hard reboot. Sometime the game just freezes, sound continues. Other times the sounds get stuck in a very quick loop. So far this has only happened in battle. I have been able to complete a few, but in the last 2 days since i bought the game the issue has happened at least 10 times.

My system is a Q9550 with a Radeon 5870 running on 11.2 drivers. Win7 64bit, 4 GB ram installed. No other games have had any persistent crashing issues, but i have no had a chance to try any other Total war games. My CPU is running under load at between 45-50 degrees. Running Prime95 and some memory tests showed no issues.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

-Skiffy

Have you updated your motherboard chipset drivers?
Have you installed directx 9.0c and C++ 2005 SP1?
What sound do you have besides Microsoft"s generic drivers?
Have you tried lowering your monitor resolution, eyecandy, even trying shader 2?

Originally Posted by irishron

Have you updated your motherboard chipset drivers?

I have update the nForce driver to 15.53 (but looks like it only installed storage and ethernet drivers, am i missing something? is there a chipset specific package)
Also, i update the MB bios to the latest

Originally Posted by irishron

Have you installed directx 9.0c and C++ 2005 SP1?

Yes

Originally Posted by irishron

What sound do you have besides Microsoft"s generic drivers?

I am installing the Realtek drivers for my built in sound, and i also have a Sound Blaster Arena headset(havnt tested in game)

Originally Posted by irishron

Have you tried lowering your monitor resolution, eyecandy, even trying shader 2?

Resolution no, at 1920x1200 but i have lowered shading to 2, and everything to medium

I will install the realtek drivers, and try to lower the resolution and report back. Thanks for the tips thus far

Hi,

So i have installed the realtek drivers, but then tried the game while using my headphones via USB. I managed to get through 2 battles, but on the 3rd the issue came back. I forgot to check the Resolution, so i will try that tomorrow, but for now bed. In the mean time i have pre-ordered Shogun as it looks awesome and i wanted the TF2 content for pre-order.

I really hope that this issue does not persist in the new game or i wasted $50

Anywho, thanks for the help thus far, and I'll update tomorrow once tested with Different resolution.

Thanks!

-Skiffy

Got shogun 2, So far the battle is stable, i've probably played maybe 5-6. But now Shogun is crashing in Campaign view

Could this all be due to a 2nd monitor plugged in?

Yes.

Manged to play around 70 turns without a crash. Thanks for the help! hopefully its a thing of the past. If it comes back ill remove the second display.

Cheers,

-Skiffy