CTD in XP

[momentimori]

Whenever i try and play the game on my XP machine no matter what scenario, country (or even try the tutorial) the screen goes blank then i just get a big CTD.
I've tried it with and without music enabled, as well as reinstalling enabled and it always happens. However it works perfectly on my 2000 laptop.

Any ideas?

 

[Castellon]

Lets move you to the support forum.
*Moved

 

[Castellon]

Okay now that we are in support, let me suggest a few things.
1)rename your AVI folder to AVI_Back
2)Update all your drivers
3) MAke sure your XP is up to date, specifically there is an update that addresses intro movies.

 

[unmerged(15506)]

I have the same problem, but I think if my screen flashing issue was fixed (see other post), this would be as well. I've noticed the CTD happening more often when I add a finished build queue unit to an existing army. My screen almost always flashes to black and then about 10% of the time I'll CTD. Also, the rate of flashing increases when I increase the speed of the game. I'm still reading all of the posts here to see if any other issues I am having are addressed but so far, the screen flashing is the only thing that is really making me crazy!!!

I haven't had any problems loading my autosave after the CTD which I have noticed others having, however I've only had the game a few days and I'm currently in my first full game, currently winter of 1940 and I'm having a blast reinforcing my islands in the Pacific and preparing to assault my neighbors in Mexico.

I'll try renaming the AVI folder tonight. I'm not using the in-game music either.

 

[unmerged(6777)]

Originally posted by ragout
I'll try renaming the AVI folder tonight. I'm not using the in-game music either.

Please let us know if this works. Most likely the binkplayer is the cause...but it would be nice to confirm it....

 

[unmerged(15506)]

See my other post about the flashing driving me crazy. It seems to have fixed my CTD problem as well but I will confirm this weekend since all I am planning on doing is killing those damn dirty Japanese that are invading the Philipines!

 

[Castellon]

What about you momentimori?