Bug: Freeze problems.

[burroughs]

Hi everyone.
Our friend is not the only one who gets nasty freezes. I have both SO MBT 4.5 - CD and SP WWII 4.0 commercial download version. I own two PCs, the old one and the new one with SLI, both operating Win XP. When it comes to the first one there is not a single problem with the exception of the game being a little laggy when it comes to fire exchange or arty bombardment, but in regard to the latter - it's an ordeal. It seems like both games' installations have slowly degraded to a point where it is almost impossible to play them without a freeze that strikes after a couple of minutes each time when You attempt to play. At the beginning there were virtually no freezes - now when it freezes, it freezes for good and nothing but reboot works. Then the freeze is back again in a couple of minutes; if I want to finish my turn, I need to pop in and out of the game to save the progress uninterrupted, but it still manages to catch me first now and again. I have scanned everything, I have a firewall, antivirus software etc. and I am almost 100% sure that there are no unwanted prsence in my PC. I am forced to apologize to my opponents each time and I am moving both games to another PC of mine since I have used up all my wits to figure out what the problem might be but completely in vain. It seems to affect only SP, but sometimes it also freezes when I use the browser and watch some videos.It could also be that some more demanding technically games used to have the same effect - I can remeber that being the case, but I haven't observed anything like that in quite some time, but on the other hand I don't play them anymore.

[Arralen]

Originally Posted by burroughs

Hi everyone.
... It seems like both games' installations have slowly degraded to a point where it is almost impossible to play them without a freeze that strikes after a couple of minutes each time when You attempt to play. At the beginning there were virtually no freezes - now when it freezes, it freezes for good and nothing but reboot works. Then the freeze is back again in a couple of minutes; ... It seems to affect only SP, but sometimes it also freezes when I use the browser and watch some videos.It could also be that some more demanding technically games used to have the same effect - I can remeber that being the case, but I haven't observed anything like that in quite some time, but on the other hand I don't play them anymore.

Overheating.
Ask someone knowledgeable to (mechanically) clean out your PC, and you most likely will be fine!

[Imp]

Seem to be several of these so will just say I have to agree with DRG the problem is not the game its your computers.
Sorry but just like a car if you do not maintain service them performance degrades over time till they eventually become unusable.
Do maintain them clean stuff out regulary including the registry updating drivers making sure you need the stuff in startup etc. If you dont do this they naturaly degrade over time, a physical clean from time to time to keep heat sinks etc free is also advisable. I cleaned out a freinds ancient PC sometime back that was similar spec to DRGs as it was running slow glitching. Alls fine with it now its had drivers updated & over 2000 entries removed.
If you are the sort of person that downloads demos etc need to do this frequntly most things do not uninstall properly you need to manually check after or your computer is soon filled up with rubbish they leave behind.
There are some graphic possibly sound issues with some operating systems system setups but the Camo games are otherwise very stable in my view I often have 3-5 other things running & the only thing I have ever noticed is on very rare occasions one unit will be a bit slow when I move it. Only 1 other game I own lets me do this the others tend to have far higher overheads or just lock because they expect to hog the system.