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    Default I can't tell if all these crashes i have are with EB or graphics card problems...

    The Radeon HD 4800 series are plagued with problems, a simple google search will tell you that. Anybody who has one, regrets buying it, nobody more than myself.

    Thing is, i only play one other game, mount and blade. It does crash from time to time, but not as often as EB does. It's got to a point now where i'm scared of fighting a battle that might take me more than 10 or 15 minutes, because when i spend 30 minutes fighting a battle, or worse, an hour or more in the case of large siege battles, only to get a CTD when the battle is over, it's so, so frustrating.

    I'm running RTW 1.5, legal copy store bought, EB 1.2 on top, sprite fix and mod pack.

    I generally don't get any CTD's for the first 10 years, when i say generally i mean maybe i'll get one tops once every 6 or 7 battles, but a lot of the time i don't get any at all. Once i hit around 260BC it becomes unbearable. This is why i start a new campaign every day but never finish it.

    The first type i get is a complete system lock up. This only ever happens when i fight a battle in a large (12,000 pop) or huge (24,000 pop) city, and if the battle goes on for more than say 30 minutes, the system will lock up and the only way to fix it is to turn it off at the power. I can avoid this one by simply not fighting battles in huge or large cities, i auto-win (as long as i know i definitely will win) and then disband which units i think i would have lost in the battle afterwards.

    The second and the worst type is any battle i fight. I'd say 1 out of every 5 battles i fight will result in a CTD. It doesn't matter how big or small the battle is, i had one today where i fought 3 units of levy hoplites with a general and 2 units of skirmishers and it ended in a CTD. The CTD is NEVER at the start or during a battle, it is ALWAYS after the battle has ended, when you click the button on the battle results window to go back to the campaign map. The loading bar will fill up, then i'll be hit with my desktop losing all the unsaved data, including the battle i just fought.

    Like i say, it's getting to be now where i'm scared of fighting battles, crossing my fingers and toes before clicking on the button to end the battle, hoping and praying to all 3,000 known gods that it takes my back to the campaign map and not my desktop. It's unbearable.

    I have no conflicting mods installed, only the sprite fix and the mod pack, and the official fixes in Bovi's sig. It can't be the mod pack causing this either, because i only installed that recently and this was happening long before.

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    Default Re: I can't tell if all these crashes i have are with EB or graphics card problems...

    I don't think it's your graphics card causing all of this, although it may cause some of it, at least the lockups when fighting battles. Have you checked the Windows event log for any information the OS may have logged about crashes in the drivers? Back when I had a crappy Nvidia card, I had to use drivers that were over a year old for any Direct3D game to work at all, and then it ran... Well, sluggish would be too nice a word. You could try various driver versions and see how they work.

    That crash when loading the campaign map after a battle though happens to many others too, so I don't think this is the display card screwing up. I have no idea how to fix this, beyond what is listed in the frequent issues that is, but you knew those already. If anyone knows what we could have screwed up for that to occur, please post.

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    Default Re: I can't tell if all these crashes i have are with EB or graphics card problems...

    aww i feel sorry for you! This is so dramatic.Unable to play Eb for more then 1 hour.
    Have a cookie

    PS:Buy a new computer
    Last edited by Skullheadhq; 12-30-2008 at 19:32.
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    Default Re: I can't tell if all these crashes i have are with EB or graphics card problems...

    Thanks for that arrogant and obnoxious reply, Skullhead. It earned you a spot on my ignore list, you carebear.

    Bovi, i have that problem with this card. When i bought it 4 or 5 months ago it was pretty much the best card on the market at the time, it cost me around 250 pounds, which would be around $500. It's not a cheap old raggedy obselete card, it's just plagued with technical problems.

    There aren't very many driver updates for it. There is a hotfix, which was hurredly made to address the tirade of complaints that people were making about the card, but it didn't do much good. I tried it, but it actually made the card worse, if that's even possible.

    The other drivers just don't do a thing, i have a sneaky suspicion ATI just released blank installer files to make it look like they were doing something, but seriously they do nothing whatsoever.

    Oh well, i'll just have to save up for a new card i suppose. Although i'll never buy an ATI card again as long as i live.
    Last edited by Foot; 12-30-2008 at 20:52. Reason: swear-words

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    Default Re: I can't tell if all these crashes i have are with EB or graphics card problems...

    All drivers for new video cards are buggy regardless their vendor. I'm afraid you will need to wait extra 6 months at least. If I wanted to play EB right away I would buy a mid-range video card released 1-1.5 years ago.



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    Default Re: I can't tell if all these crashes i have are with EB or graphics card problems...

    There is a trick which can solve your after battle CTDs, just wait some minutes -or until the music stop- before press the command to continue to campaign map. This solved all my CTDs!. It sounds like a joke but it worked for me, and a lot of guys i have read here. When the battles have more than 2000 units it is possible to have the error -at least for me-, so better be patient hehe. The other CTDs during battle sounds like overheating...

    I only had one unsolved CTD in a siege where i got it in the middle of the battle. I have had other bigger and longer battles than this and no problems, so it seems like a random CTD.
    "This war between the Romans and Celtiberians is called the fiery War, for while wars in Greece or Asia are settled with one or two pitched battles, the battles there dragged on, only brought to a temporary end by the darkness of the night. Both sides refused to let their courage flag or their bodies tire". Polybius.


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    Default Re: I can't tell if all these crashes i have are with EB or graphics card problems...

    I have no significant problems with my 4870.
    Can't say I have really heard of any either?
    They do run fairly hot though & while the card itself is designed to run that hot, a crash 30mins into a battle might be due to nearby devices in the case getting too hot.
    Do you get similar issues with playing other graphically intensive games?

    I definitely get the after battle crashes too. Typically after about every 5-6 battles but sometimes out of cycle after big battles too.

    I thought it might have been something to do with system stability but I don't have similar issues with other games so I tried playing another old mod that I used to play, Rome:Total Realism 6 PE for a bit to see if this generated the same sort of problems & I can play this all day long without crashes. (& the average battle in RTR has more soldiers than the average EB battle due to generally larger unit sizes eg Hoplites are 240 on huge size vs EBs 160)
    RTR 6 doesn't use a script like EB so I tried the RTR 7 The Iberian Campaign which does use a script & like with RTR 6 PE, its rock solid stable.
    So its not an ATI/RTW engine issue.
    I think its something specific to the EB script. Something that gets triggered about every 5-6 battles and/or by big battles.

    I was hoping EB1.2 would have somehow fixed this but it hasn't so no EB for me until I see some people saying its been fixed.
    Its just not playable to CTD every 5th or so battle.
    Last edited by hoom; 01-01-2009 at 02:13.
    maybe those guys should be doing something more useful...

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