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.

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

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

Re: Game crashes with XP
 

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