Freeze after second turn

[greenalien]

Hello, I've just downloaded the Demo, and I must say I am pretty impressed with the game. Nice strategy, I definitely like it.

I however have a small problem - the game always freezes up on second "military" turn, in August 1914 (first one being Early August 1914), when playing the Grand Campaign (2 or 4 player version). What gives?

[greenalien]

Well I've just updated the demo to the latest version, and I've tried changing sides, this time playing as the entente. Still no luck, game crashed (CTD this time) as I was about to finish military part of second turn.

I'm running 2.2Ghz intel duo, with Vista OS.

[calvinus]

Try disabling the game musics (Configure Game tool). It should help a lot.

[greenalien]

Still no luck, it still crashes in the middle of a second military turn, no matter what side or scenario.

[calvinus]

Still no luck, it still crashes in the middle of a second military turn, no matter what side or scenario.

Even with musics & sounds disabled? Also, disable AI Logs & AI Memory options in the Configure Game tool.

[greenalien]

Ahh nevermind, the game is running fine now that I've disabled sounds and music. It didn't initially, but it runs ok now. Thanks for your help.

[greenalien]

Well I'm trying the Gold Version demo now, is there any chance this will be fixed in a patch or something so I could play the game with sound on? Or do I need to change anything on my computer?

[calvinus]

Hello greenalien, the posts were very old. With the Gold version I introduced several fixes for the Musics & Sounds engine, so that the music crashes are supposed to be fixed (see change log). Try enabling the sounds and tell me if you still have such freezes or crashes.

[greenalien]

Well I just experienced pretty much the same problem: the game still crashed after second turn for me. I immediately realized I had the same problem previously, so I turned off the music and sounds, and started playing again.

The game ran a bit smoother the second time around, didn't crash at first, but then it had a Crash to Desktop in November-December 1914 instead.

[calvinus]

If you still have crashs with sounds & musics, it means your sound card is really not compatible (please post here the card name and drivers version).

Crash in Nov.-Dec. 1914 (end of Interphase, I guess) with no sounds: UAC filter off? Logged as PC Administrator? Also, how much RAM, CPU? Etc. etc.

Thanks,
Calvinus.

[greenalien]

Well it turns out you were right...using the administrator rights did help a lot, I forgot to use them previously. But the game still crashes a lot. I got a crash in 1915 April-March I think. For some reason the game tends to crash after military turns.

[greenalien]

Well it just keeps randomly crashing on me. I don't know why.

Here's my specs:

Vista 32 bit
2.2 Ghz Intel Core TM2 Duo T6670 (dual processor)
3 GB RAM

Regarding the sound drivers:
ATI function driver for High Definition Audio
Sound MAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
Drivers should be updated to latest version of sound drivers.

Video Card: ATI mobility radeon HD 4330

The version I am playing is Gold version Demo.

I tried both disabling the UAC and playing as administrator.

[Longhairedlout]

Hi there, I don't know if this will help, but it is worth a try, I was having seemingly random crashes to desktop so I thought I would try Fs autostart, Its a freeware program for cutting out unneeded background processes and freeing up RAM, I had downloaded it to try with Ill Sturmovik 1946, anyway I tried it with WWI gold and it seems to have stopped the crashes so far....

[greenalien]

Well I've tried that and it says "Error Launching FSAutostart batch control." So I've looked for solution to that and the author of the program posted on his forum that people need a patch to solve that. So I click the download link for the patch and it says the site is down and I should come back in: "9999 minutes."

But I appreciate the advice.

[greenalien]

I've tried "Alacrity PC" which does the same thing. I was pleasantly surprised by the huge increase in performance, lots of small lags removed, the game ran much smoother...until it crashed at the end of military phase again.

I can provide a save file.

I don't know why would it be the sound card, because the sounds sound, well, alright.

[calvinus]

Maybe this can help: http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=17620

Anyway please try disabling sounds and musics.

[greenalien]

Runs very well now. The combination of muting sound + cutting down on all unnecessary processes seem to have done it.

I wish it would run with sound on, but thank you nonetheless!

[calvinus]

What is your sound card? I can contact the developer of the music library in order to check if there's some compatibility issue.

Thanks,
Calvinus.

[greenalien]

It's some sort of integrated one with my laptop: HP ProBook 4510s

[LarryP]

It's some sort of integrated one with my laptop: HP ProBook 4510s

I had a similar problem with a different game, but I found out it was my sound card causing the problem. I went into the dxdiag menu and on the Sound tab I turned the acceleration down all the way, then slowly increased it until it crashed again. Then I turned it back down one notch to where it was before the crash.

You may be able to play the sound and music this way but with acceleration either turned off or just way down some. You have to have the music play in this game, it's excellent!

[greenalien]

Odd, I don't have that option in my DxDiag sound tab, but I appreciate the advice!

[LarryP]

I couldn't remember when I said this if my Vista machine had that option or not. Shoot, well that's too bad. My laptop has Vista on it and when I fire it up tonight I will take a look at it. Seems though that I looked for the slider for acceleration before and it wasn't there. I have to look again to be sure.

If I find it I will tell you, if not then I'm sorry to have wasted your time.