Completely unplayable

[Pharaoh]

I originally had no problems with the game. I patched and there were still no problems. Then I added 128 mb of RAM, to a total of 256. Now the game is completely unplayable. The battles resemble slide shows.

What the heck is going on? The machine is a 1 Ghz Thunderbird that has had very little difficulty with the game in the past.

[Azrael]

Hey Pharaoh,

Go to the Apothecary. There is a thread called RAM TROUBLE.

Read through that and see if any of the points covered could apply to you.

You may not be able to post in that Forum yet, but don't worry. Post a reply here. The Moderators are very good at passing posts on to the appropriate threads when necessary.

By the way, as you turn on your PC, it displays how much RAM you have. Is it saying you've got all 256 megs there?

Also, there is a way to tell your computer to use the full RAM capacity.

Somebody cleverer than me is going to have to add to this post to tell you specifically how to do it, but if your working with XP, you may just be able to stumble accross this feature yourself.

Let me know if any of this helps.

I will sleep better at night knowing you can play your game.

No man is an island - John Donne (Any man's lack of gameplay diminishes me)

Azrael

[Nikola Barac]

Do you have that problem only with Medieval and not with other games? Maybe you got bad RAM modul?

[KukriKhan]

Hello Pharaoh, welcome to theOrg Sorry about the delay in responding - wage-slave job works me on Saturdays, grrrrr.

Here's a link to the discussion Azrael noted (thanks Azrael):

http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin....;t=2405

Bummer the game's unplayable for you - I'm sure our tech guys can sort this with you. Post again with fuller specs (OS, vid vard, sound card, RAM type, mobo spec, etc), and I'll move this whole thing to The Apothocary, our tech forum. PLUS posting a time or two again gets you 'promoted', so you can post on your own.

Cheers

[Pharaoh]

I have not noticed any significant effect in any other game, plus both BIOS and Windows register the presence of new RAM correctly.

System specs:
1GHZ Thunderbird
GeForce 2 MX 400 32 mb
256mb RAM (originally one 128-meg dimm, added another of the same type (133mhz SDRAM)
I think the motherboard has a VIA chipset, but I'm not quite sure. It does have integrated audio.
Windows ME

[KukriKhan]

I copied your posts to The Apothocary, here:

http://www.totalwar.org/cgi-bin....1;&#top

The tech-heads will either answer there, or visit here.

[Pharaoh]

Thanks, I appreciate that.

[MonkeyMan]

I answered in the apothacary for you, hope its some help.

[HopAlongBunny]

I had some major problems with the game.

Frequent CDT and even more frequent freezes. Switching from win2kpro to XPpro didn't help-note the game DID work ok under win98se.

The only change that helped was swapping out an old double- sided RAM for a single-sided

system:

amd850mz athalon
512 ram (2banks 256 single-sided )
msiG4-4400 vid card
winXPpro

It ought not to make a difference, bit it worked for me )

[Pharaoh]

Thanks, MonkeyMan, your tip worked I'm just wondering if changing the PCI texture settings will have an adverse effect on other games.

[MonkeyMan]

Well as a few wise million or so people say - If it aint broke don't fix it, now you know what you've changed unless you find something wrong then your ok. My advice is to experiment when you need to. The only tweak i have noticed that effects other games is the Antialiasing, which is sometimes noticeable.

Although it is annoying to have to constantly play around with settings, that's the price you have to pay sometimes, paticularly if like me your trying to make an old PC live as long as it can. Glad to know i was of some use (makes a nice change )