Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

The patch is great. Thanks Illwinter!

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

I meant cave provinces.

Also, should the version still say "2.23b" on the start screen?

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Hiya all. I'm kind of new here. I got this game from my brother (who got it for his Birthday ~4 months back, didn't like it, and then gave it to me when he next saw me (we live in different cities)). I installed it and started playing and think it's pretty darn good (though I'm certainly not yet).

I have a small problem though. The game runs fine normally, but when I patch to version 3.26, it crashes whenever it tries to adjudicate a battle. My hunch is that it has something to do with the 4 year old Dell Inspiron 1501 (I know that it was mediocre upon release, and it's even more mediocre now) I'm running the game on (even the menu windows sometimes pause briefly while loading). I'm not very good with computers; generally I use CanIRunIt to figure out if I'm able to run a game. I have a hunch that my laptop would come up short if Dominions 3 was on their list.

Here are the specs, copied and pasted from a website. I unfortunately don't know enough to actually confirm their veracity.
* AMD Sempron 3500+ (1.8GHz/512Kb)
* 15.4" Ultrasharp WXGA display
* 512GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (1 DIMM)
* ATI Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (Integrated graphics)
* 60GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
* 24x CD Burner/DVD Combo Drive
* 6-cell 53 WHr lithium-ion battery
* Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
* Dell 1390 802.11g Mini Wireless Card


So, given this information, are there any patches that I should be able to run? (I don't really want to spend the next couple days uninstalling/reinstalling to try each patch...is there an easier way to unpatch/repatch?)

Thanks in advance!

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Does it give you any kind of error message when it crashes?

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Nope, just stops. If I alt-tab out, I get the standard "this program has stopped responding." error message that Windows gives when a program freezes.

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Would it be quick for you to start by uninstalling, re-installing, check whether works, apply patch, check again?

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Hmmm, I'll give it another shot. None of my saved games involved anything other than me getting slaughtered. Thank you for the assistance.

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Reinstalling/repatching still lead to crashing; on the move phase if I moved, on the combat phase if I stayed still and the AI initiated a combat.

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Most likely something related with your CPU. Dominions_3 has a endless hunger for CPU and if your CPU can't handle being maxed out then it will crash. Remember a dual core will show 50% usage and a quad core will show 25% usage because the game is not multi-threaded.
My suggestion is run some performance tests which will max out your CPU... if problems occur then we know the reason.

Re: Dominions 3 free patch/upgrade v3.26
 

Thank you. I can believe that this could be an issue, since my CPU usage does seem to go to 100% some of the time when I keep windows task manager up, and it generally hovers in the 70-90% range. I'm not really sure how to run the tests you mentioned, however.