Game crashes with XP
 

Hey

I installed the game. I start a scenario play for a 1 min and get the winmtb.exe has encounterd a problem and it will be shut down. Game crashes into desktop. I have 1.6 true IBM with 16meg video card. It does that at any screen resolution and in either full or windowed mode. Should I set the exe to run in win 95 mode?
Any suggestions

Thanx

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Hi everyone,

I have the same problem like Paulinski. Reinstallation and even new download of the zip-file didn't help.
I'm using XP with SP2 on an Athlon64 3700+, 1GB RAM, two PCI-Express GeForce6800GT running in SLI-mode, SoundBlaster Audigy2ZS.

I love this series, played it since SteelPanthers1, waited long for this Windows version...
Please help

Many thanks

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Hi Paulinski. I found out that in my case sound is the problem. BattleFX turned on and SoundFX off (both ingame in preference menue) is no problem. SoundFX causes a lag and slows the game a little bit, after a short time the game crashes to desktop. Now I'll search for some different drivers.
In my case switching to win95 mode only delayed the crash..

hope this helps

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

I think I'm in the same boat. I have a generic Dell Pentium III runs about 800. I start a battle and get to the movement phase of the first move, and I crash to desktop. I will try turning off SoundFX. I'm running XP too.

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In my case, the game has been crashing on two different machines running XP. . .

Machine 1: Athlon 2000XP, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, nVidia GeForce card w/ 64MB of memory, Sound Blaster Live. All of the absolutely latest drivers, etc.

Machine 2: 1.6 GHz Centrino (Dothan), 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD. Also have the latest drivers on this machine. . .

I tried installing and uninstalling Morgan Stream Switcher, as described in another thread. . . Tried the sound adjustments. Also tried redownloading the game and reinstalling. . . No luck so far. . . The crash in my case is related to a file called: ntdll.dll

It crashes when I am in the middle of dropping artillery and air support. . .

Any recommendations ??

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Vitek, your fix works! I turned off the SoundFx, and voila. It is a beaut of a game. Back to being overrun by the Chinese, and thanks a ton. Not that I don't miss the kabooms and rattle of musketry, but I'm sure someone will find a fix soon. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Sytem minimum requirement is a 32MB video card, so getting a 32MB card will help most likely.

Cheers
Andy

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Andy, do you have an idea how to fix the SoundFX/Soundblaster problem..?
-I installed up to date drivers but the problem remains the same. Game runs stable only with SoundFX turned off. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif
Playing with sound will make this fantastic game even better! I hope there will be an soulution until the ordered CD version reaches my mailbox.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

thanx for your efforts

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Try this tweak and give us feedback! Andy and Don will surely appreciate while triing to find a permanent solution to these compatability problem! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Did you try the method outlined in the sticky re setting to w98/ME compatibility mode? (not just the shortcut, the programmes as well).

See if that works. Otherwise, you likely have either a CODEC of some sort that is causing a problem, or some other utility that is using/interfering with DirectShow. Perhaps an MP3 player, video application or similar?.

My XP box has no problems (even with no use of the compatibility mode) with a VIA AC 97 sound controller - I think that is aa simple one built-into the motherboard itself ?)

You could also try this out (I just did on my box).

right click on my computer, hardware evice manager, open up audio codecs. n the properties section youll get a list of your installed audio codecs.

I turned ALL to "do not use this codec" except the fraunhoffer MPG3 codec.

I then tested by double clicking on an MP3 file inthe \game data\sounds folder, and that workrd OK in the media player, with all codecs off bar thefrauenhofer one.

I then played a test scenario, and sound all worked as expected.

If that procedure makes the sound work for you, you coul dthen start re-enabling the sound codecs on the list as and until the problem reappears. In which case - whatever audio codec you last turned back on was the problem.

(the Frauenhoffer Mpeg layer 3 encoder is the default Microsoft installed MP3 codec)


Cheers
Andy

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Unfortunately neither the Win98 compatibility mode, nor disabling all the other codes except MP3 did solve the problem. I did everything exactly following your guide but it didn't help.

some other ideas..?

(nevertheless this prob, WinSPMBT and it's new features are a great step foreward. A big THANKS to the developers and all involved people!!)

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

The 98 compatiblity fix did not work for me at all. An instantaneous crash in a battle that worked before and after with sound effect off. Thanks for the effort.

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

My problem is different I have a color problem in full screen mode but the game works fine in windowed mode??? In full screen I get like a photo negative on all screens except the game itself where only "smoke" is in the "negative" but makes it hard to play in full screen cause you have to use the other setup screens so often.

Setup is Athlon thunderbird 1.4 gig
ATI Radeon 9200E with 128 mem
512 machine mem
onboard sound card emulates soundblaster 128

I tried new vid drivers, running in "other modes" i.e 98, me, etc nothing seems to work, even tried setting my back ground to 600x800 as the game is.

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My XP Athlon 1800 test machine uses a Radeon 9200 128MB. so that is possibly not the probem?.

It's the first time this specific problem has been reported as well.

What is your monitor? LCD or CRT?

Cheers
Andy

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Hmmm monitor is a 20" CRT p260 IBM. It has me guessing also, I have tried all the "windows" fixes I know short of tearing down the code (which I am unable to do anyway). All my other games run fine and I have some OLD games LOL (all of the old DOS SSI steel panthers which of course donot run on xp very well if at all). I have all of BF's games running with no problems (CMBO etc) so not sure what it could be?? The wife has AOL on my machine so I ALWAYS suspect that LOL. Thanks for the quick reply sorry you didn't have a quick fix I hadn't thought of :}

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Well I finally got the game to run in full screen had to mess with video settings abit but in the end after messing around for about an hour I did a reinstall and set everything back to where it was in the beginning and the game worked???? Wish I knew what changed but apparently I had something hung up and all the messing and rebooting cleared it

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

Welp my problem is solved as I suspected AOL messed with my video card, as soon as I turn it off completely the problem went away.