Battle graphics crash bug

[Sam Adams]

Its rather rare, because it only happens late in very very prolonged battles. Rather annoying especially if you lose the battle cause of it. Basically the screen gets all fragmented and flashy. Cant see much. The battle will end due to time if you let it sit... although since you cant controll your men you often suffer.

Any ideas?

[rasoforos]

i have a g force 2 mx , p iii 800 and i had the same problem. It seems it happens if you move your view near the edge of the map , the colours get distorted and there is an annoying repetitive flash on the screen and it makes the game unplayable since , although the battle continues , its impossible to give proper commands....

[Jacque Schtrapp]

Have either of you tried hitting the windows key or alt-tabbing to the desktop? Quite often any graphics glitch I encounter dissapears if I minimize MTW and then maximize it again. Hope this helps.

[Kraellin]

sounds like a running-out-of-resources' problem. a little extra ram or better vid card drivers might help. could even be a heat problem. post your specs.

K.

[rasoforos]

i got 320 mb or ram ( a 256 and a 64 chip ) , my drivers are probably 6 months old detonators but the card is fairly old ( g force 2 mx ). i dont think its ram and i didnt have overheating problems in more demanding games. : / its strange really since it doesnt happen all the time ( it happens rarelly enough so its not too annoying ..) and it seems to happen only when i move the camera view on the edge of the map ( btw it hasnt happened since i reisnstalled MTW) . If it happens again i ll try to minimise as Jackque said and see if it helps and i ll post.

[Red Harvest]

All the advice I've ever seen on the GF2/MX line is that the last good driver set was 30.8x. You might want to use Detonator Destroyer to remove any vestiges of old drivers. Probably not a bad idea to reinstall DirectX just before the new driver install. For many of the recent driver sets NVidia has been playing games with clipping the edges of the frames to try to boost benchmark scores. This can screw things up.

Check your BIOS settings. Turn off AGP Fast Writes, they were a consistent source of problems for motherboards of that era. You might also experiment with 1X, 2X, 4X AGP settings. 4X is what you want--as long as it is stable. In the early days of 4X AGP implementation, some motherboards couldn't handle it.

Also, mixing an old 64 MB memory stick with a newer 256 can cause headaches. You might want to try pulling the 64 to see if it makes any difference stability wise. Check BIOS settings and try using slower settings like higher CAS/RAS values. Also check memory interleave. With the mixed memory you probably can't run 4X interleave successfully.

Another BIOS setting to fiddle with is AGP aperture. With 256 MB of system memory you should not set it to more than 128, but you could also try 32 and 64 to see if one works better than another.

[Sam Adams]

I also have a P3 800...

256 ram and a 128 meg video card... running windows XP.

Im pretty sure ive tried alt tabbing and it didnt work... ill try it again though next time this happens.