Crash on open screen

**bovi** · 03-15-2007, 22:54

Do you get the same problems when starting vanilla from that installation (IE not with the -mod:eb switch)? What sort of computer do you have (processor, graphics, memory)? Have you successfully played other major mods like RTR recently? Have you successfully played some graphics intensive game recently?

Freezing up is not a common error, but you're not the only one reporting it. I would ask you to use Filemon to see what's happening, but it won't be of any use as you won't be able to save the log when the computer freezes... As I have had none of these problems myself, I can only guess at fixes.

**spurs_dan21** · 03-16-2007, 11:31

Yep RTR worked. Graphics work fine. Computer isnt that bad. I got it to work but now the whole game is painfully slow, still need some advice on making it playable.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 03-16-2007, 19:45

Could you post your RAM, CPU, and Graphics card specs? Because "clicking on a city for the first time and then it's stuck" sounds like a sort of RAM problem. If it's not, CPU is the most likely culprit, and if that's not it either then your Graphics card may give the CPU & RAM some trouble. (Because it's not being capable of it's job, and therefore your PC has to rely on CPU & RAM helping out.)

**spurs_dan21** · 03-19-2007, 20:18

RAM 512MB DDR
Graphics card is GeForce 6200 (or something, dont have box handy)
Intel 4 etc after that.
40GB

Planning to just delete the game for now want to buy a new pc soon will whack it on then.

**bovi** · 03-19-2007, 22:11

You are likely to benefit the most from purchasing more memory. Only 512 MB means you will have to swap a lot of memory to disk, and the game will be extremely slow. I think that must be the cause of your problems. But it's strange that you should crash on the opening screen, not all that much is loaded by then.

You could also try to run memtest to check whether your memory is error free. Leave it running during the night. If there are no errors detected in the morning your RAM is okay, but still lacking in size to get decent performance.