The Official ETW Hardware Problem Solving Thread

**Schiltrom** · 03-04-2009, 18:47

Originally Posted by Maleficus

When I try to launch the game it just gives me an error report.

What's that about?

You mean "the game is currently unavailable"?

**Rhyfelwyr** · 03-04-2009, 20:53

While scrolling about the campaign map, my screen went blue with some text, said it was dumping memory onto a disk. This is extremely annoying since I just bought 4GB RAM for Empire. There are my specs:

64-bit Windows Vista Home Premium
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
465GB Memory
4GB DDR2 RAM at 800MHz
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS

I always have trouble at first with TW games. MTW didn't work on my old PC, M2TW caused crashes, now when I think I'm fine I get this.

EDIT: And it happened again. I'm sick of this and I feel like just giving up on PC games.

**pevergreen** · 03-05-2009, 03:56

BSOD. Blue Screen Of Death. Normally a Hardware issue...

**Belgolas** · 03-05-2009, 04:57

Well after playing many hours this game does need a few patches. I have so far 3 CTD and my brother has had several. My other brother has had any yet but then again he has only played for about 1 hour.

Also for some reason the campaing map is laggy for me. And no it isn't because I have a crappy computer. Anyways this game needs some patches for me to fully enjoy it.

**pyradyn** · 03-05-2009, 05:59

With the Demo I experienced some Crashes not COD a full crash Computer just reboots. Now when I bring up Campaign it crashes every times usually within first min. It is unplayable and with a 2 and a half hour install I really do not want re-install

**Bornslippy** · 03-05-2009, 10:30

I've had one CTD the first time a naval battle was flagged in a campaign. Hasn't recurred.

Otherwise, generally OK, although one interesting bug in that the screen pans when I move the mouse to the left border, but not when I move it to the right and on to the second monitor...

Running - two 1900x1200 screens on a GTX295 12GB Vista 64bit I7 system

[edit - and yes this is apparently my first post even though I have been here for over four years!)

**Subotan** · 03-05-2009, 20:11

I haz a general hardware problem.
So I buy the graphics card Lemur recommended, and I proceed to take out the old gt 7600 geforce I had; without uninstalling it. I realise my mistake and slot it back in, only to discover to my horror that I need to “select a proper boot device”. I figure that means the instalation Cd that came with the original card, but I threw that out years ago. Hoping for the best, I put my new card in anyway, to no avail. Any ideas on how I can get out of this?