How to Install & Use Process Monitor (ProcMon) - to gather data about loading CTD's

[muzz]

Thanks for going through the trouble, T. because I've been having CTD's after battles and that is really too frustrating to describe. But the big thing is that after some battles, instead of a CTD, it actually reboots Windows. I don't know how to capture the info on ProcMon. How do I capture the information since I am restarting the program? Thanks.

[Tellos Athenaios]

I'd have no idea. Unless the program "recovers" the lost data - it's pretty much gone. (That is the report is gone.) But a reboot hints at something more sinister than anything you are expected to find with ProcMon => That's more like your GFX card quit working altogether or some such thing.

[muzz]

Well, between the Blue Screen of Death I've enabled and the ProcMon, hopefully I will be able to figure it out and post some info that will help other people get sorted out. Guess I'll be on the lookout for a new graphics card, even though my Radeon card is only 6 months old.

[Hound of Ulster]

I've only had two CTDs when loading and the first hasn't occured since (Loading Campaign map after starting campaign with Casse) with the most recent was while loading the battle map for a single-unit engagement with the Samourtae. I went around the crash by reloading the campaign autosave and disbanding the unit in question, then saving the named campaign file. It strikes me that most loading CTDs occur because of cranky hardware more than the mod itself. My computer does get squirrelly if I've played Rome and its mods for an extended period of time. EB's one problem for me (and a potential cause of loading CTDs) is how large and detailed the campaign map is. It takes at least 10 minutes for my computer(a fairly new Dell laptop) to load the campaign map for the first time going into the game.

[Malik of Sindh]

It takes at least 10 minutes for my computer(a fairly new Dell laptop) to load the campaign map for the first time going into the game.

It takes 15 minutes for my crappy old computer with NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128 MB) to load the campaign map,and I still think EB is worth the these 15 minutes.

[Hound of Ulster]

It most defiently is worth the wait.

[Sygrod]

Can ProcMon capture problems caused during battles? That's where I have a world of problems.