Shutting down, Crashes, Restarts

**crazynightdawg** · January 18, 2007, 02:41 PM

I recently just installed ME2 actually yesterday, the games seems to freeze up , will shut down and go back to desktop, and twice it cause the computer to restart, would like any help

**bibbledy** · January 18, 2007, 05:58 PM

Do you have up-to-date video drivers? What are your system specs?

**crazynightdawg** · January 18, 2007, 07:29 PM

I do believe i have the updated drivers, 93.71 for the NVIDIA, how do i show you my system specs, I mean i can give you the basics, Pentium 4 3.0, 1 gb of ram, the video card i have is nvidia geforce fx 5500, its 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X, i dont know if that helped, let me know if i need to tell you anything else, and how to do it also, thank you very much for all ur help

Trojan** · January 19, 2007, 06:39 AM

I think that you might need to update your video card to at least a 7300. No offense man but thats's kinda slow. RAM looks good becasue thats how much i have and make sure to download the new drivers of Nvidia.com. My game is still having this problem however I'm getting a Nvidia GeForce 7300 through the mail.. But anyways definatly invest in a new video card. PeAcE

**crazynightdawg** · January 19, 2007, 05:35 PM

Hey Trojan I dont know if you will ever get this message or not, but let me know if getting that new video card makes your game run better, I would really like to know before i buy a new one, thank you very much

Trojan** · January 19, 2007, 07:25 PM

i got it 2day and i hooked it up and the game went a gazillion times faster but then once again it crashed... So of course i tried to call sega hotline for tech support which didnt even give me any help and now im sitting here waiting for the person whose job it is to give us help...But anyways you would might want to invest in a new vid card 5500 is kinda low

**crazynightdawg** · January 19, 2007, 10:23 PM

Yeah I been meaning to upgrade my card, but I been reading and it doesnt seem to be the cards, ppl with high end cards are still having problems, that why i was asking what i should do, but the person hasnt said anything back yet, so im just waiting. I dont want to return the game cause i like it, but it is getting annoying with the crashing, thanks tho

**Sjobbe** · January 24, 2007, 09:21 AM

Hey
Think we have the same problem

Im sitting on a AMD64 3700+
1gbram and a Geforce 7950 512mb

Sometimes i hear BZZ in the speakers and the game just stops..well not just the game, the entire PC freezes (i have NO problem whatso ever with any other games, runnin BF 2142 and oblivion on the highest graphic details, and i can play for hours.)

This can come after 20min playtime , or after 5hours if im at that mood. rly wierd and noone seem to be able togive any answers. i will try install the patch today and see if it helps.

Pls post if u find anything out.

**bibbledy** · January 24, 2007, 01:14 PM

I have a high end system and had the same problem, until i did the following things:

Turn off shadows.

Also, if you have a dual-core processor, Alt-tab every time you start the game, find Medieval2.exe in the task manager tab, "Processes" (not "Applications), right-click on it and select "Set Affinity", and make it so only one CPU is checked.

**Douchebag** · January 24, 2007, 09:12 PM

Hahaha your kidding right? This my comp:
Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz(2 CPU's)
1022 MB RAM
5200 GeForce FX 256 mb

I can put bloom/reflection
Vegetation/grass/buildings on high
text quality on medium
AA x2
AF x2

my fps isnt that bad...unless theres like...2000 soldiers or something. I also turned off banners; so that raised my FPS a lot.

And I didnt have any crashes/freezing etc.

**crazynightdawg** · January 26, 2007, 10:47 AM

Yeah see that is the problem, it doesnt seem like it is the computer more like there is something wrong with the game, I pretty much have what you have and mine wont work, the other guy has a computer set up better than both of us and his doesnt work, i just want to know what is wrong with the game and how to get it to work.

**Douchebag** · January 26, 2007, 01:59 PM

Did you upgrade your card?

**ulysses-31** · January 27, 2007, 01:25 PM

I'm having the same problem. I am on turn 150 on my first campain so i hav been playing the game fine. but now Everytime i load the computer completly shuts down(like someone pulled the power).

My drivers are up to date.

I've uninstalled the game and reinstalled it.
I've added more computer fans.
I've taken my case off to let more cool air in. (So it not an over heatig issue)
I tryed formatting my drive and even installing xp64.
Nothing is working

I have a 4200 AMD DUAL CORE CPU
1gb ddr2 ram
and a ATI X1950xt

My computer can more than handle the game.
Its Madness!!

**Hells Bells** · January 28, 2007, 12:14 PM

maybe taking the case off leads to more dust getting in to those vital components, and remember dust burns like gasoline.

**ulysses-31** · January 29, 2007, 12:08 PM

I sorted it out.
I baught a New thermaltake PSU Today and it has solved all the issues.

My old psu was a colorsIT 600w with a 12v 36A output should have been powerful enough but because it wasn't a quality make or it may have been faulty.

New PSU is 700w with a 12v 56A Output

I would advise people who are still having trouble to check out there PSUs esspecilly people who have high end pc. Mega Graphics cards and mega CPU need quality power.