Screen freezes and goes black - Vista, ATI

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Bought game yesterday but it keeps freezing up, screen goes black and the last fraction of a second of music goes into a loop. I'm no big gamer, but it seems like a problem with my graphics card.

Machine: HP HDX9000 (notebook)
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600XT

Couldn't find that diagnostic .txt file you mention in the first sticky post.

Thanks for any help...

 

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Oh, forgot to add that I've upgraded the game to 1.3 and I've tried playing with multisampling at 0 and no trees. I've also attached the DxDiag.txt file.

 

[AndrewT]

The only issue I see in there is your video driver, check with HP for a newer version.

The other files we need are Rome/settings.txt and Rome/logs/system.txt

 

[unmerged(111021)]

Extra files attached...

The only issue I see in there is your video driver, check with HP for a newer version.

The other files we need are Rome/settings.txt and Rome/logs/system.txt

Hi there, thanks for getting back to me. I've attached the two files requested (had to rename system.log to system.txt to get it uploaded). As for the video driver, I followed through the support pages on HP I got to this page to download the driver:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...&cc=us&lang=en&os=2093&product=3463529&dlc=en

The driver on this page appears to be a slightly later version (8.42-07... at HP vs 8.403 on my machine), however the link to actually download that (11MB) file is ridiculously slow (>1KB/sec). If you can point me to somewhere else where I could find that driver (I searched the ATI site, but couldn't see it there), that would be great.

This is a real shame, I love the game, but it's just not playable at the moment.

 

[AndrewT]

I'm not promising a new video driver will help, but I just don't see anything else wrong The other site you can get new drivers from is www.omegadrivers.net , especially good for laptops where the vendors try to control driver release.

The only other suggestion is to try setting fullScreen=no in settings.txt

 

[unmerged(111021)]

The only other suggestion is to try setting fullScreen=no in settings.txt

Well, I tried that and it appears to have done the trick. I wonder if there's not something going on here. My monitor's natural resolution is 1680 x 1050, whereas when the game was crashing it was filling out the screen at 1024 x 768.

I will try setting the resolution of the game to 1680 x 1050 and running it in fullscreen mode again and post my findings here for the next guy.