CTD NA 104a

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I'm playing on a laptop with a Radeon 320M card. I know it's a crappy card but I've rarely had trouble with any of the other Paradox games. Now I'm getting crashes and corrupted autosave files on a regular basis early in the game. The scenario loading bar gets about a third way through and then CTD. I know with some games it helps to knock down hardware acceleration a notch, may try it. Maybe I dont' have enough Ram. I'm not really a techie but here's system info, let me know if you need more.
And thanks a lot!

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System Information
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Time of this report: 11/8/2004, 04:57:40
Machine name:
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2_gdr.040517-1325)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: Pavilion ze4500 (DM736A)
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Processor: mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.9GHz
Memory: 446MB RAM
Page File: 178MB used, 878MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

 

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I'm playing on a laptop with a Radeon 320M card. I know it's a crappy card but I've rarely had trouble with any of the other Paradox games. Now I'm getting crashes and corrupted autosave files on a regular basis early in the game. The scenario loading bar gets about a third way through and then CTD. I know with some games it helps to knock down hardware acceleration a notch, may try it. Maybe I dont' have enough Ram. I'm not really a techie but here's system info, let me know if you need more.
And thanks a lot!

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System Information
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Time of this report: 11/8/2004, 04:57:40
Machine name:
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2_gdr.040517-1325)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: Pavilion ze4500 (DM736A)
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Processor: mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.9GHz
Memory: 446MB RAM
Page File: 178MB used, 878MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

Oh, I've got the latest DirectX but perhaps my card can't handle it?

 

[Castellon]

Okay let's try some standard things.
1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.

Then try a new game, with latest patch.