Game crashes with XP

[Vitez]

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

[Vitez]

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

[The Black Captain]

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.

[forwarddeployed]

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 ??

[The Black Captain]

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.