CTD on laptop

[Novea]

When I attempt to initiate a game on Victoria ( I have no problems entering the menu and nation selection screen itself) ,my laptop fails to load the game and immediately crashes .

I do not suffer this problem on my Pc ( pentium 4 , windows XP )

Can anyone help me here?

 

[jdrou]

What is the resolution of your notebook screen? The game will not run at anything less than 1024x768 resolution (the main menu may run at 800x600). Make sure your Windows desktop is set to 16-bit color and rename the Victoria avi folder so the intro video doesn't load.

(This is more of a tech support issue than a bug.)

 

[Novea]

What is the resolution of your notebook screen? The game will not run at anything less than 1024x768 resolution (the main menu may run at 800x600). Make sure your Windows desktop is set to 16-bit color and rename the Victoria avi folder so the intro video doesn't load.

(This is more of a tech support issue than a bug.)

Could you please clarify the part about the avi folder?

What should I rename it to?

Secondly , the intro video works fine

Thanks for your help regardless

 

[Gaute65]

Could you please clarify the part about the avi folder?

What should I rename it to?

Secondly , the intro video works fine

Thanks for your help regardless

Rename the avi folder to avi.old.

 

[jdrou]

Secondly , the intro video works fine

The intro video player frequently causes problems. Renaming the folder prevents the player from loading and many people report that this fixes their problems. It's one of the standard things you would be told to try in all the Paradox tech support forums.

 

[Gaute65]

The intro video player frequently causes problems. Renaming the folder prevents the player from loading and many people report that this fixes their problems. It's one of the standard things you would be told to try in all the Paradox tech support forums.

Here is a list over standard advice:

1) Make sure you have the latest patch for the game.
2) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
3) Set the color depth to 16BIT
4) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.
5) Run a Virus check and a Adware/Spybot checker
6) Update your Windows, update your Video card drivers and audio card drivers. Then repeat steps 1-4.

If renaming the avi folder doesn't help, try they other advice.

 

[Novea]

It works on my laptop now - after I setted it to 16 bits.

It is also installed on my PC- though it also ocassionally experiences CTD's

 

[Gaute65]

It works on my laptop now - after I setted it to 16 bits.

It is also installed on my PC- though it also ocassionally experiences CTD's

Good news.

@ PC, I assume you have updated your PC and are running in 16 bit?

You could run dxdiag and post the result in this thread. See sticky how to do it.

You should also use autosaving.