(Crash) CTD at game (campaign or new) start

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Hi there

I crash to desktop as soon as I enter a new game after loading screens (when you see your sov in the game map). There is fog of war everywar, and I can see my character, then i CTD. This is on both new campaign and new sandbox game.

I have tried updating and using the original download, and all crash in the same way. see files below

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10539615/Elemental1_05-2010-08-25T12-57-07-468.zip

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10539615/Elemental1_05-2010-08-25T13-00-14-988.zip

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

As your video drivers are dated 2009, try updating to the latest 945 GMA drivers on intel's website.

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Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks for the response Kryo, but no luck. My drivers were from sept 2009, and latest Intel drivers for the 945 chipset win 7 are from 2 oct 2009. I updated, rebooted and still getting ctd on start of a new game or new campaign.

see crash file below

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10539615/Elemental1_05-2010-08-26T08-13-25-367.zip

Update 1 - I was messing with settings, and I am able to get the game to play if I play windowed rather than full screen

Update 2 - correction I can only get the "New" game to play, campaign still crashes. I have dropped the graphics settings to lowest possible, and forcing a frame rate of no highter than 60

Link to crash files for the campaign crash http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10539615/Elemental1_05-2010-08-26T08-41-38-287.zip

Update 3 - When playing the "new" game, performance is horribley slow, just managed to make my capital, and crashed on recruiting janusk (spelling?) character - see crash details http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10539615/Elemental1_05-2010-08-26T09-22-32-947.zip

Update 4 - moved to cloth map only game and now I can get into Campaigns. Full screen is still too slow to play comfortably, so play cloth map in windowed with lowest graphic settings. even with lowest settings, cloth only and windowed, it is slow and cumbersome. It strugglers to render tactical battles as well.

I am running this on a laptop with 2GB of Ram , intel core 2 duo cpu (T2350 @ 1.86 GHZ) and onboard 256mb graphix card. Is this a performance issue? I have tried dropping the graphix to the lowest possible levels, but gameplay was horribley slow

Update 5 - Performance on full "new" game (rather than campaign which is always unplayable) is almost playable on clothmap, windowed with lowest settings as long as i dont enter tactical. when I enter tactical I crash http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10539615/Elemental1_05-2010-08-26T14-28-40-512.zip

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Update 4 - moved to cloth map only game and now I can get into Campaigns. Full screen is still too slow to play comfortably, so play cloth map in windowed with lowest graphic settings. even with lowest settings, cloth only and windowed, it is slow and cumbersome. It strugglers to render tactical battles as well.

I am running this on a laptop with 2GB of Ram , intel core 2 duo cpu (T2350 @ 1.86 GHZ) and onboard 256mb graphix card. Is this a performance issue? I have tried dropping the graphix to the lowest possible levels, but gameplay was horribley slow
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At least partially. GMA945 is pretty much the poorest intel chipset currently in production (it does very little on its own and most of the work is offloaded to the CPU, which isn't designed to handle graphics). I don't believe it actually meets the game's minimum requirements since it only emulates pixel shaders, rather than running them natively.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

ahh, ok that makes sense.

 

Thanks Kyro - re-downloading for XP so I can take it to the desktop - bring in the heavy guns :-)

 

Wanted it on the laptop so I could play on the move, but alas.....