Nachtmeister
12-07-2009, 03:29
Hi all,
it's been a while - and now I am back. With a new computer. And a problem...
This problem being that I can't get the recruitment viewer to run on my machine:
CPU - Athlon II X2 235e
RAM - (probably insignificant but - 4GB Elixir PC 1333@1066
Mainboard - Gigabyte GA MA 785GT UD3H
(No discrete graphics card so far, running on ATI 785G mainboard chipset)
... And I am using Windows XP SP2 32Bit version.
Now RTW and EB run just fine, I don't even have any speed-up problems on the battle map as were mentioned somewhere else, but the recruitment viewer will for some reason not start up, giving me an error message reading something about "xxx detected an invalid operation".
---random guesses about the cause start here---
Sounds like the Athlon II CPU architecture is not compatible with the recruitment viewer...
But is it possible that a 64Bit CPU is not backwards compatible to a 32Bit program?
Or could it be that it is a total miracle that WinXP 32Bit is running on my hardware at all and I really should get a 64Bit version and run it in 32Bit compatibility mode?
I actually found a "CPU Driver" in the "software manager", which is new to me - had the same Windows installation on my previous Athlon XP 2500+ machine and it certainly did not mention a "CPU driver" anywhere. Which is not helping with suppressing the vague FEAR that this WinXP installation is a very unstable never-meant-to-be thing.
-----------random guesses end here-------------
...Sooo, does anyone have some divine machine-wisdom and an urge to enlighten me as to what may be wrong with my system...? RV is not the only application that is behaving somewhat strangely, but it is the only one so far that has never even started up.
Oh, and even if you have no divine machine-wisdom, maybe you could point out to me how else if not by the RV to find out about where to recruit which unit as which faction with which MIC /-level...?
OR, I would also very much appreciate any help in the form of a how-to regarding *helping myself* (i.e. how to port the RV to a 64Bit platform/32Bit platform running on a 64Bit CPU). Yeah, hit me. ^^
Thanks in advance, hope no one else is experiencing such problems; in case the search I did for existing threads about similar issues (which turned up empty, which is why I am posting this) was too sloppy, I apoligize for spamming a redundant troublethread.
-NM
... P.S.: IMHO there should be some automatic means to prevent people from spelling the word "help" anywhere in a thread title in the tech-help forum. Also goes for "HEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!!" in all it's diverse abominous incarnations, some with more "EEE"s and some with "AAA"s instead of "EEE"s etc. ... GRRRRR!!
it's been a while - and now I am back. With a new computer. And a problem...
This problem being that I can't get the recruitment viewer to run on my machine:
CPU - Athlon II X2 235e
RAM - (probably insignificant but - 4GB Elixir PC 1333@1066
Mainboard - Gigabyte GA MA 785GT UD3H
(No discrete graphics card so far, running on ATI 785G mainboard chipset)
... And I am using Windows XP SP2 32Bit version.
Now RTW and EB run just fine, I don't even have any speed-up problems on the battle map as were mentioned somewhere else, but the recruitment viewer will for some reason not start up, giving me an error message reading something about "xxx detected an invalid operation".
---random guesses about the cause start here---
Sounds like the Athlon II CPU architecture is not compatible with the recruitment viewer...
But is it possible that a 64Bit CPU is not backwards compatible to a 32Bit program?
Or could it be that it is a total miracle that WinXP 32Bit is running on my hardware at all and I really should get a 64Bit version and run it in 32Bit compatibility mode?
I actually found a "CPU Driver" in the "software manager", which is new to me - had the same Windows installation on my previous Athlon XP 2500+ machine and it certainly did not mention a "CPU driver" anywhere. Which is not helping with suppressing the vague FEAR that this WinXP installation is a very unstable never-meant-to-be thing.
-----------random guesses end here-------------
...Sooo, does anyone have some divine machine-wisdom and an urge to enlighten me as to what may be wrong with my system...? RV is not the only application that is behaving somewhat strangely, but it is the only one so far that has never even started up.
Oh, and even if you have no divine machine-wisdom, maybe you could point out to me how else if not by the RV to find out about where to recruit which unit as which faction with which MIC /-level...?
OR, I would also very much appreciate any help in the form of a how-to regarding *helping myself* (i.e. how to port the RV to a 64Bit platform/32Bit platform running on a 64Bit CPU). Yeah, hit me. ^^
Thanks in advance, hope no one else is experiencing such problems; in case the search I did for existing threads about similar issues (which turned up empty, which is why I am posting this) was too sloppy, I apoligize for spamming a redundant troublethread.
-NM
... P.S.: IMHO there should be some automatic means to prevent people from spelling the word "help" anywhere in a thread title in the tech-help forum. Also goes for "HEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!!" in all it's diverse abominous incarnations, some with more "EEE"s and some with "AAA"s instead of "EEE"s etc. ... GRRRRR!!