Need Advice on Game Crash

Mobhack · #1 April 19th, 2006, 06:13 AM

Yes - a search on "goldwave" found Don's article on that.

Goldwave Link

Cheers
Andy

Krotos · #2 April 19th, 2006, 08:53 AM

Thanks for all of the advice. I found the problem. In my case, the crashes to desktop were caused by a 3rd party video codex pack I had installed on my machine in order to be able to view a wider range of avi and mpg videos. After I removed that video codex pack, the game became stable and runs properly now.

Thanks ever so much for the help.

scout32 · #3 May 13th, 2006, 07:42 PM

When I download game and click the Play SPMBT button the introductory screen pops up upside down.then when scenario screen comes up theres a delay before theres any response to what i select.Finally when i hit the start button to begin scenario,nothing happens except for a sound loop of battle sounds.The game worked fine on my Windows 98 OS but i have been having this problem since i upgraded to Windows XP OS.Any help would be appreciated as i really love this game.Thanks

DRG · #4 May 13th, 2006, 09:06 PM

If you upgraded to XP after installing the game try re-installing the game

Don

scout32 · #5 May 16th, 2006, 06:34 AM

I did reinstall the game after i changed to xp several times in fact. the same thing happens every time.i hit the start button to begin scenario and nothing happens.

Nox · #6 May 16th, 2006, 10:12 AM

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scout32 said:
When I download game and click the Play SPMBT button the introductory screen pops up upside down.then when scenario screen comes up theres a delay before theres any response to what i select.Finally when i hit the start button to begin scenario,nothing happens except for a sound loop of battle sounds.The game worked fine on my Windows 98 OS but i have been having this problem since i upgraded to Windows XP OS.Any help would be appreciated as i really love this game.Thanks

1st: Do you have the latest DirectX version and WinXP service Pack 2? Are your hardware drivers up to date and correct? Have you installed any third party video or sound codecs?

2nd: Did you install WinXP ontop the old Win98 installation? If so that may be part of your problem. Although upgrade is possible from a 98 windows, it is strongly recomended to install XP on a clean formated hard drive.

Mobhack · #7 May 16th, 2006, 11:21 AM

I strongly agree with Nox's comments re upgrading.

I am going to gues that your problem is driver related, possibly video (though if you get to the main screen and can select scenarios etc, probably not).

The likely culprit is your sound card in windows XP, especially if you did not install the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website.

(This is exactly the same advice given in the sticky thread on game crashes in XP above.)

1) On the game options programme, go to misc tab and turn mouse interface click to off.

2) Start the main game programme from the Game Options launch programme, and go into Preferences. Here, turn both Sound FX and Battle FX options to OFF.

3) Exit the game (to enure the preferences are writen to the INI file in case of crash - you do not want to have to re-do) and then restart the game again.
If your crash problems have now gone away then the poblem is related to your sound card. Various options are discussed in the sticky thread, e.g. converting your sound files to WAV instead of MP3 if your card cannot handle multiple MP3 streams, and the first check is to go to your sound card manufacturer's support web site and try downloading latest XP compatible driver set (if such a beast exists).

Cheers
Andy