Help! Rtw Crashes Before Battle!

[Samurai Steve]

OK I'm beyond pissed off. Rome runs great unrtil I get to the first battle in the prologue. Then it crahses to the desktop when its done loading. I've put my settings on absolute lowest and it still does it. I've been waiting forever for tihs game. This is so wrong.

[Morindin]

ctrl-alt-delete and shut down absolutely everything you can. Turn off any firewalls and/or virus software, etc, etc, etc then try again.

[Samurai Steve]

Nope, doesnt work..

[Morindin]

Nope, doesnt work..

Alright, update all video and sound card drivers.

[element]

Ya i could have saved 3 frustrating hours and 20 mins on the phone if i had just realized to dowload my drivers. this is a MUST especially when playing a brand spankin new game.

[Samurai Steve]

So you were having the same exact problem? Also where do I upgrade my drivers? Please as answer tihs as soon as possible! I'am dying to play ROME!

[The Witch-King]

Download new drivers at the site of your card's manufacturer (ATI if you have an ATI card for example).

[Samurai Steve]

Err... I'm a bit of a n00b with computers. How do I tell what card I have?

[jimmyM]

should be able to find out under start>control panel>system then clicking on the "hardware" tab - alternatively it should be listed either in your computer paperwork you got with it,or you can find out by opening the box and having a look in...

[Samurai Steve]

Ok, I go in there and looked under "Display Adapters" and here is whats written when I click the little minus box by "Display Adapters": NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 MODEL 64/MODEL 64 PRO.

Should I upgrade that ones drivers, or do I have something different?

[Chimpyang]

Nvidia is thwe card manufacturer that you should look for.

[KukriKhan]

Here's the link:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

work your way thru the "step 1, step 2" routine, find your card, download the drivers. Good luck.

Alternatively, on that dialog box showing your vid card, if there's a button "upgrade driver", click it.

[Samurai Steve]

WHAT THE HELL!

I successfully updated the stupid driver. It's completely up to date. And it still does it! Everything oges fine until that one stupid battle in the prologue! I start the game lsiten to the annoying advisor, then when the ifrst battle loads, it stays there ofr am inute then CTD's. What the hell am I doing wrong!?

[Samurai Steve]

C'mon please help me! I want ot be playing this game before the nights over! Like i siad drivers arefully updated now and it STILL does it!

[Quasimodo64]

C'mon please help me! I want ot be playing this game before the nights over! Like i siad drivers arefully updated now and it STILL does it!

Did you get some help now?
Do you know how it works?
I have the same problem and would be very thankfull
if you can tell me the solution for your problem, if you
got one already.

Thanks in advance

[Quasimodo64]

My problem was solved through a (last) new installation,
it might be that there was a failure in copying one file,
so it crashed all the time I had to go to battle.

Maybe this will also solve your problem ?

And now back to fight

[The Sword of Cao Cao]

Strange, it worked for you, I was told my graphics card cant handle it. What card do you have?

[Spartacus]

I think this is happening with Terrible onboard graphics cards or Old NVIDIA graphics cards.