Advice on vista-EB issues?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I'm having some trouble with EB crashing right when it gets to a battle (where a sprite issue normally causes a CTD), but I'm almost certain it's because I've got a new cpu with vista on it. I never had these problems with earlier internal builds on my xp machine. Any advice on what to do about it? I pretty much bought this damned computer just to play EB on, and to help do EB stuff on, but now the stupid thing is crashing when I want to play EB (oh the irony!).

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Well, a totally new install of RTW, then patches of 1.3 and 1.5, and then a new install of EB 1.0 still gets me crashes when starting battles.

[mcantu]

Have you run Windows Update and installed chipset/graphics card/sound card updates?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I've tried every device driver and they are all up to date. I basically can't get it to play a battle at all now.

[Sakkura]

I know this doesn't help, but here goes anyway:

http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/BMWs_and_Windows

Hasta la Vista, baby!


On a more serious note, I guess I would try to install another OS on that machine, to rule out a hardware or driver issue. But that's just a little... Drastic.

[bovi]

At least you get to start a campaign, more than some other Vista users have been able to . Is the latest SVN version working for you BTW, or haven't you had the chance to download that yet?

Are you talking about a specific battle, or any battle? There might be some sprite issue left; even though I checked all the root sprites I didn't check the 001, 002 etc files. I don't know what makes the game use this or the other though, perhaps unit size or graphics quality setting? If it's a specific battle, which units are involved?