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1.2 crashes on launch

May 3, 2011 8:10:16 PM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

1.2 crashes on launch. Windows says "Elemental: War of Magic has stopped working".

I've tried running it both from the launcher (play game button) and from the Elemental .exe in the folder. Both crashed.

Flipping compatibility modes/run as administrator doesn't help. Setting fullscreen to 0 in the prefs doesn't help.

Win7 64, Inte core 2 duo 2.6, ATI Radeon 4870 512mb (drivers updated).

The last 1.1 build worked fine.

 

I checked to see if a debug file had been generated, but none had. The game couldn't even make it that far.

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Reply #1 May 3, 2011 10:27:57 PM
from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

It turned out that something in the game was conflicting with AMD Catalyst -- the standard tray tools for ATI Radeon cards. Once I closed out Catalyst, the game opened fine.

Also, I had none of the graphical menu errors reported by other ATI Radeon users. Seems like some settings in Catalyst may conflict with the game engine. I don't really expect a fix for that, being so hardware-specific, and the game's required specs being as low as they are.

So, Radeon users note -- closing Catalyst and all other graphics tray tools should fix your graphical issues with the game. And this launch issue, if you're having it.

Cheers,

-mra

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Reply #2 May 3, 2011 11:43:09 PM
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Thanks. I have a Radeon and will give this a shot. Had alot of DX errors throughout the beta testing.

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