Brief specs:
Radeon X700
Latest Omega drivers
Windows XP
Having played for a few hours with 1.03 (no issues at all), I then downloaded 1.11a and got a critical error early June 1861 on my very first game.
I read the forums and checked my error log and it seems I was having the same texture crashing problems that others have had.
Following the advice given on changing the texture settings in options and then resetting my PC, I changed the settings in the system options to one below the max (default).
Having reloaded my PC, I discovered that the game failed to fully initialise. Instead of slow but sure (1.03) or swifter (1.11a) status bar filling the bottom of the screen, the game seemed to hang about 1/3 into loading up textures although there was no percentage display. I left my PC for 30 minutes before deciding to quit that attempt to load the game.
On my second attempt to load the game, the game started loading textures from what appeared to be the exact spot I had previously stopped it from loading.
I've uninstalled the game, performed a full system clean out, and am about to install the latest ATI drivers for my gfx card. I'm hoping that will resolve the problem but I think that this might be something which needs flagging up, just in case it's me having an odd day or someone else is experiencing similar oddness.
All the best,
Zeb
edit: well, the good news is that the August 2008 official drivers seem to fix the problem. The bad news is that it would seem that the CD I copied the download to is corrupted, fortunately didn't delete the original download until after I'd reinstalled.
