Game Quits Itself

**Shadows** · April 12, 2006, 02:04 PM

Hey I was just playing RTR 6.0 as the Macedonians when out of the blue I clicked end turn and Bam the game quit itself. Now I don't know if this is directly related to RTR as it has worked fine for me for quite some time now, but i just wanted to see if anyone with RTR exp. knows if this is a RTR thing or something with my computer or my RTW files.

**Cheexsta** · April 16, 2006, 11:15 PM

Heh, I get frequent BSODs with XP. It's normally an overheating issue...

With the CTD, we need far more information than that. Are you using 6.0 Gold? What year is it? Is the CTD reproducable?

**Venom** · April 17, 2006, 03:36 AM

Sorry if that was a bit rude. It's just that I've never seen a BSOD in XP before. I think it might be a hardware conflict that I need to investigate. I recently put in some new RAM to supplement my existing 512. Possible evidence to support the conclusion of it being hardware-related was the message "Dumping physical memory: (x percentage)"
I waited till it reached 100% and then rebooted. I also changed some settings in the BIOS (disabling stuff like Fast Writes) to make it more stable. Hopefully, I'll never see that message again.

**Cheexsta** · April 17, 2006, 09:47 PM

Venom: make sure your new RAM is the same type as your current RAM, that the timings are the same and such. I don't know the specifics, but while I was googling for a solution to my own BSOD problems, I found that that was one of the causes (not so in my case, since I hadn't changed anything). The "Memory Dump" thing doesn't really mean anything as far as I know, it happens with all/most XP BSODs.

Shadows: your best bet would probably to completely reinstall RTW and RTR (just back up your savegames!). You might also be better off checking the RTR tech support forums at rometotalrealism.org and seeing if anyone else has had that problem.

**Soccer1993** · April 19, 2006, 12:52 PM

im really sorry but what is a BSOD? im having tons of trouble with my XP laptop and i need all the help i can get. i would really appreciate it if you could tell me about them and how to troubleshoot laptops well.

**Shadows** · April 17, 2006, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Cheexsta

Heh, I get frequent BSODs with XP. It's normally an overheating issue...

With the CTD, we need far more information than that. Are you using 6.0 Gold? What year is it? Is the CTD reproducable?

I don't get anything other than the game quiting. And yes I'm using 6.0 Gold. The year is irrelevant, it has happned over the course of several years and with several different factions' turns. I had to start relying on the autosave because I would otherwise have to save every turn, as its unpredictable when the game will quit. But yeah, no CTD message or anyhting, just blacks out then returns to my desktop like nothing ever happened.

**Shadows** · April 19, 2006, 07:29 PM

A BSOD is slang for blue screen of death. Basically when you computer goes haywire and take syou to the blue error screen. Oh and good username, Soccer1993. Welcome to the forums.

@Cheexsta, I will post there just to see what the guys there say.