Game crashes with XP

[Mobhack]

Paulinski said:
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

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

Cheers
Andy

[Vitez]

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.
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..

thanx for your efforts

[FJ_MD]

Try this tweak and give us feedback! Andy and Don will surely appreciate while triing to find a permanent solution to these compatability problem!

[Mobhack]

Vitez said:
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.
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..

thanx for your efforts

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

[Vitez]

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!!)

[The Black Captain]

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.

[BigJim]

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.

[Mobhack]

BigJim said:
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.

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