Game Crashes and flashing screens

DRG · #1 June 25th, 2005, 03:14 PM

There have been a number of reports of crashes and brief instances of "flashing" on the screen and now one where some screens appear as almost a negative image. It's already getting difficult to find all the comments about this as more and more posts come into the forum so I'm starting a new one and we'll pick up from here

QUESTIONS

For those of you that have had cases of the game crashing at some point have you been running in both Windowed and Full screen mode when this happened or only Full screen?

Has anyone who has seen the screen " flash" briefly ever seen this in windowed mode

We ARE trying to fix this genetlemen but we have to find the problem first. The more info we get the quicker this gets solved

MarkSheppard · #2 June 25th, 2005, 08:53 PM

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Has anyone who has seen the screen " flash" briefly ever seen this in windowed mode

No. Only in Full Screen.

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We ARE trying to fix this genetlemen but we have to find the problem first. The more info we get the quicker this gets solved

Don't worry too much guys; every game has these annoying
bugs which only show up when it's been released; Silent
Hunter 3 shipped with bugs that made the rain not show
up, for example.

The Black Captain · #3 June 28th, 2005, 07:47 PM

Full screens both crashes and flashing screen until I shut off Sound Fx.

DRG · #4 June 29th, 2005, 12:21 PM

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The Black Captain said:
Full screens both crashes and flashing screen until I shut off Sound Fx.

??????

Are you saying the occasional screen flash on full screen mode goes away for you when you shut off the Sound FX??

Don

junk2drive · #5 June 29th, 2005, 01:14 PM

I have had all sound off since day one.
I get a rare blip of brightness (not me, the screen) that I think is related to things that I am running in the background. JMHO.

DRG · #6 June 29th, 2005, 01:24 PM

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junk2drive said:
I have had all sound off since day one.
I get a rare blip of brightness (not me, the screen) that I think is related to things that I am running in the background. JMHO.

OK, but what I'm trying to deterimine is if "Black Captain"s crashes AND flashes went away once he turned off the sound.

Don

BigJim · #7 June 30th, 2005, 04:33 AM

I do not get the flashing screen in full mode but the game does minimize by itself from time to time. I wonder it the flashes are related to that and on these flashing machines the game just doesn't get the minimize done but flashes in the attempt???

Caesar4 · #8 September 12th, 2005, 05:58 PM

I had the screen flashing when I was in "full screen mode". This game will just not work in that mode. Now I've changed it over to "windowed" mode it starts up but when I try to move my units, the game crashes with an error message reading: Error Signature Appname winspmbt.exe AC3audio.ax...can anyone help as I would love to play this game?!

Caesar4

Guderdian · #9 December 14th, 2005, 07:29 AM

Downloaded WinSPMBT. Patched to 2.5. Managed to get it to work (XP). Can play scenarios without any problems. But when I want to go to the editor or play a battle the programm will crash to desktop. Before it crashes I very briefly can see the programm trying to build up a screen that is not the one it should be as shown in the game manual. (It includes a lever to select the type of battle instead of an arrow bar)

Anybody knows the problem and how to fix it?

Greetings

Guderdian

astat · #10 July 10th, 2006, 08:53 PM

ok i havent read all 6 pages, but i've tried the possible fix from the first posting of this thread:
http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...b=5&o=&fpart=1
...without success

like some other user(s) with sound problems, i too have an onboard soundcard (c-media).
the game plays allright without sound, but it will crash to desktop after a minute or so when sound is played. the 2.5 patch didnt help either..