Hi,
I'm in Australia and have the NA (paradox) version of EU (just released here). Is a fantastic game, 100X better than any strategy
game I've run into - even other strategy First labelled games.
But . . .
The release version was 1.06c or something but now
I've got the 1.10 upgrade (the uk one didn't work, the
NA one from Strategy first is exactly the same size and date
and didn't work even more (eu cd not found error) and
finally the gamespot patch (same size again but different
archive date) worked, and has somewhat reduced some annoying
problems by adding a no music option. Here is my list of
probs and here is my system. Hoping someone can help.
My system:
Pentium III 833 (or 66, I forget), Via chipset on an Octek Rhino
motherboard.
Riva TNT2 ultra value graphics blaster (64M)
128M Ram
10 gig hd. half full.
soundblaster awe sound card
sony 52X cd rom.
Windows 2000 professional with value pack 5 (direct X 8 or 9)
PLEASE NOTE: I have all the latest sound, video, m/b, direct X blah blah drivers. My problems are not (repeat not) caused by such. In truth it is rare that drivers need to be upgraded unless they are corrupted.
My list of problems with EU:
Crashes to Desktop.
Crashes to desktop.
Crashes again to desktop.
Crash is ALWAYS assosciated with the hard drive being acessed. Ie. Hard drive starts turning over and then game crashes. Often crashes When I save (autosave off does nothing).
No music - I have sound, but never any music. At least with the no music option however, my cd drive doesn't run constantly as though playing it. Gamespot had this problem when they reviewed the game too.
Most frequent crash to desktop occurs in the grand campaign AFTER 1600. Anywhere between 1600 and 1650 seems to be a real dangerzone. Crashes are not affected by the time compression of my game.
Crashes are not affected by the hardware acceleration of my graphics or sound cards. Am running win2000 so there is no way to turn off my cd's autorun feature that I know of.
There are no memory conflicts being logged.
BEFORE YOU ASK:
Yes. HAve defragged/drive tested. This does nothing to most software problems anyway.
Of course I have reinstalled a few times, tried different patches.
Yes. I have made sure there are no background programs of anykind. just sytray and explorer.
Yes, I have about a gig devoted to virtual memory and page files and my machine is optimized for background tasks (Although you'd think games would need it optimized for applications but anyway).
Yes. Have read all the other support posts and have found no answers that work (especially since most seem to pertain to EU2 - which I have ordered already - hoping it is more stable).
Yes, have even installed EU on a different computer, Athlon p4, nvidia graphics etc. Same probs.
This game easily outstrips every other strategy game I've played (civ3 to black and white to Dune to close combat to KKND to Kohan to mechwarrior to starfleet command to shogun etc etc.) and so the frustration of software CTD's is quadrupled.
Thanks!
I'm in Australia and have the NA (paradox) version of EU (just released here). Is a fantastic game, 100X better than any strategy
game I've run into - even other strategy First labelled games.
But . . .
The release version was 1.06c or something but now
I've got the 1.10 upgrade (the uk one didn't work, the
NA one from Strategy first is exactly the same size and date
and didn't work even more (eu cd not found error) and
finally the gamespot patch (same size again but different
archive date) worked, and has somewhat reduced some annoying
problems by adding a no music option. Here is my list of
probs and here is my system. Hoping someone can help.
My system:
Pentium III 833 (or 66, I forget), Via chipset on an Octek Rhino
motherboard.
Riva TNT2 ultra value graphics blaster (64M)
128M Ram
10 gig hd. half full.
soundblaster awe sound card
sony 52X cd rom.
Windows 2000 professional with value pack 5 (direct X 8 or 9)
PLEASE NOTE: I have all the latest sound, video, m/b, direct X blah blah drivers. My problems are not (repeat not) caused by such. In truth it is rare that drivers need to be upgraded unless they are corrupted.
My list of problems with EU:
Crashes to Desktop.
Crashes to desktop.
Crashes again to desktop.
Crash is ALWAYS assosciated with the hard drive being acessed. Ie. Hard drive starts turning over and then game crashes. Often crashes When I save (autosave off does nothing).
No music - I have sound, but never any music. At least with the no music option however, my cd drive doesn't run constantly as though playing it. Gamespot had this problem when they reviewed the game too.
Most frequent crash to desktop occurs in the grand campaign AFTER 1600. Anywhere between 1600 and 1650 seems to be a real dangerzone. Crashes are not affected by the time compression of my game.
Crashes are not affected by the hardware acceleration of my graphics or sound cards. Am running win2000 so there is no way to turn off my cd's autorun feature that I know of.
There are no memory conflicts being logged.
BEFORE YOU ASK:
Yes. HAve defragged/drive tested. This does nothing to most software problems anyway.
Of course I have reinstalled a few times, tried different patches.
Yes. I have made sure there are no background programs of anykind. just sytray and explorer.
Yes, I have about a gig devoted to virtual memory and page files and my machine is optimized for background tasks (Although you'd think games would need it optimized for applications but anyway).
Yes. Have read all the other support posts and have found no answers that work (especially since most seem to pertain to EU2 - which I have ordered already - hoping it is more stable).
Yes, have even installed EU on a different computer, Athlon p4, nvidia graphics etc. Same probs.
This game easily outstrips every other strategy game I've played (civ3 to black and white to Dune to close combat to KKND to Kohan to mechwarrior to starfleet command to shogun etc etc.) and so the frustration of software CTD's is quadrupled.
Thanks!
