Quote Originally Posted by Tony.Montana. View Post
Hi all,
even now with the 9.6catlyst i can't play empire total war for more than 20 minutes!it doesen't matter if settings are low or ultra, randomly the screen freezes and the audio start to emitt strange sounds in loop like wistles or smthing metallic, i can't even go to windows and i have to reboot. I've not such problems with other games like unreal tournament 3 that stress cpu and graphic card.
here's my hardware:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
Mainboard: P5E3 WS PRO
RAM: DDR3 2048MB
Hard Disk: 200GB
ASUS HD 4850
sound card: inside the motherboard
Alim: ezcool 1050 W

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i put my DXDiag in spoiler

use SPOIL in the tags instead of SPOILER, I did the same thing.

This is speculation ...

Might be audio drivers, and might nevertheless be bad memory on your video card. M2TW is what stressed my previous card enough to get it RMAed ( and replaced with a better one for free, yay ),
I'd tried testing other games to see if my problem was M2TW or the card, they didn't have problems
but it was actually the card ( damn 7900s ).

Anyhow only things I can think of are update audio drivers, try a couple different video driver versions, try the update to ETW that's due on monday and if none work then contact support at your
video card maker. My 7900 was fine for the first 9 months then started showing problems in M2TW as I said, by the time I got off my lazy arse to return it it was showing artifacting on bootup text screen even.