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Seemingly Random Crashes

... even after the 1.03 patch!

March 14, 2008 1:02:41 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums
I was looking forward to the 1.03 patch because I thought that this issue, which many players appear to be experiencing, would have been addressed by Stardock in some way. The FAQ is still blank on this particular issue, as well. My game continues to freeze sporadically, sometimes allowing me to play for hours on end, and other times freezing on the menu within the first five or so minutes. There is no one thing that appears to trigger the freezes, which are so terrible that I am forced to reboot my machine each and every time they occurr.

Is anyone working on fixing this game-crippling bug?
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Reply #1 March 14, 2008 12:16:11 PM
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System specs? The most common issue of that sort is generally caused by buggy nVidia drivers under Vista (which nVidia tells us they think they've fixed for their next release).
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Reply #2 March 15, 2008 1:23:43 PM
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Alienware Aurora m9700 Laptop
Windows XP Professional
AMD Turion x64 2.4 GHZ Processor
2 x nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS (512mb)in SLi
2 GB RAM

So it is definitely not a Vista problem, in my case. I still experience the random freezes that other people complain about, though. Any further wisdom on this would be appreciated.
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Reply #3 March 15, 2008 3:37:59 PM
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Have you tried turning down the effects settings from highest to say high or medium to see what affect that has?
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Reply #4 March 15, 2008 11:01:35 PM
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I've tried turning everything down to the bare minimum and the problem persists. It has been exceptionally bad today. The only time the game has not frozen in mid-play is during the very first match that I ever played, which lasted several hours without a single hiccup. Ever since then it has randomly frozen at some point.

This is game would be so great were it not for this issue.
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Reply #5 April 21, 2008 10:11:30 PM
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Hey i have the same problem i think. Before the update i could play for hours and hours, but now some times it will play for hours but then other times it will crash at like 10 min. Happened twice at almost the same time. I have an amd x2 4400, 2gig ddr 533, bfg tech nvida 8600. i would really like to know how to fix this.
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Reply #6 April 21, 2008 10:40:34 PM
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I'm having the same problem in single player. I never had a crash prior to 1.04. Usually on large maps with 4+ AIs, I'll get a mini-dump about an hour into the game.

Athlon 4400
Nvidia 6800GS
OCZ 2GB 3200 DDR Platinum
XP Pro SP2

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Reply #7 April 21, 2008 10:43:12 PM
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You guys do know that save games from previous version are incompatible and will therefore crash your games?

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Reply #8 April 21, 2008 11:34:32 PM
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Who said anything about using a game saved from 1.01
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Reply #9 April 21, 2008 11:35:53 PM
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Typo: 1.03
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Reply #10 April 21, 2008 11:41:23 PM
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Was just covering all bases. There have been numerous such threads where in the end it has turned out that people wanted to play from an old save-game...
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Reply #11 April 22, 2008 11:23:22 PM
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this has happened to me on brand new games. but with a mod from 1.03 on.
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Reply #12 April 23, 2008 12:09:21 PM
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but with a mod from 1.03 on.


So does it crash without the mod? If not, then it's a safe bet it's the mod's fault.
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Reply #13 April 23, 2008 12:22:56 PM
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I have the same problem. I don't use mods and I am on Windows XP. I can play Crysis so I don't think graphics are the problem. Just to be safe, I turned them down anyway. If it happens, it happens within the first five minutes of loading the game. After that things are fine. It only happens on this game. Same thing happens to my friend who also plays this game. I have the 1.04 patch installed. It happens at the menu or during actual gameplay. The problem is not older game saves either.
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