Tech help in windows 7?

**drone** · 03-26-2011, 21:49

Ah, Intel graphics. Trying to hunt down some posts, I know I've seen discussion on this before.

In the meanwhile, try to put an empty file named "skipcredits.txt" in the top level of your MTW install directory. This will prevent the intro movies from playing and might help. Have you tried running the campaign map at a different resolution? And it sounds like you have had the game running on your PC before, is this correct?

**PershsNhpios** · 03-26-2011, 22:05

Try running the campaign map at a higher resolution, djaked, MTW campaigns can be extremely touchy (I have intel graphics too) if the map is not set to 1024x768.

There is a thread around here somewhere, which was pertinent to my problem, which gave specifications for a particular Intel graphics chip (Which just happened to be my one), and which older driver to download for it and where.

If you also need to reload an older driver (Newer driver perhaps?) in which case we should start researching just what sort of Intel graphics you have.

**drone** · 03-26-2011, 22:39

Yeah, I think that's the thread I remember, but the board's search function isn't giving me any joy at the moment. Do you remember if this was in the Main Hall, or the Apothecary?

**PershsNhpios** · 03-27-2011, 01:36

Conduct a search for "82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV" and "82915G/GV/910GL".

These searches will show the most relevant problems.

My problem was a CTD occurring, not a return to the Menu, but the catalyst may be the same.

This is the thread which solved my problem: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...2FGE%2FPE%2FGV

Specifically, the information contained in post #9

This solved the crash to desktop CTD when loading a single player campaing on my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1100 with an intel 82845G graphics controller and lots of other stuff I messed around with.

The latest version of the graphics driver, v. 6.14.10.4XXX or something, didn't work. I went to the
intel site/download area/
/graphics/82830M graphics

and got version 6.14.10.3889.
This is a link that may or may not get you there

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...ition&lang=eng
Solved the problem.
Thanks to everone who has put up posts for the other things I tried, and Erado for his reccomendation to go to the site to get the driver.(erado.totalwar.org)

Hopefully your problem is fixed by the same driver, djaked.

**caravel** · 03-27-2011, 10:29

The older driver solution is only relevant to the XP user, Vista/7 users don't have the option of reverting to that version as it wasn't built for Vista/7.

Beyond that I can't help much, I don't use windows and have never had a PC with intel graphics apart from an old laptop that doesn't have windows installed either.

**djaked** · 03-29-2011, 21:33

Still no good. Thanks for the help though guys.

**drone** · 03-29-2011, 22:22

The only other Win7 "fix" I know of is the resolution fix, which is not specifically for this problem. If you want to give it a try, here it is:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...alution-issues
post #4. You can try it, but I doubt it will do anything.