Hrothgar

[quote]Elemental shouldn't be capable of bluescreening the game, and it's certainly not capable of causing your system to take an hour to reboot or continue to experience difficulties. What you're describing is a hardware problem and probably impending failure.[/quote] I admit I know little about hardware, and not much more about software [although I think I know more than the average computer user]. However, I have only had blue-screen crashes since in

Blue-screen crashes have scared the heck out of me. After the last one, it took me well over an hour to reboot, and I'm still experiencing difficulties. So, I'm all for fixing the stability issues, because I can't play with the game in the state it is.

It appears that things have gone from bad to worse--even though nothing has changed, neither with Elemental nor with the configuration of my laptop. However, since I posted the above, the game has refused to run at all on the laptop. The start screen appears. and I get to the main menu, but I can't load a save. I have, as recommended in anther thread, waited several minutes before pressing "Load," but, while this worked on my desktop, it fails to work on the laptop.&nb

Worse news--perhaps. I discovered that updating my graphics driver screwed up many other programs--including Nero. As I do a great deal of video editing on my computer, I need to be able to use Nero. So, I've had to rollback the graphics driver. Of course, since I continued to experience repeated blue-screen crashes even after updating the driver, I haven't lost anything. But, I sincerely hope that Stardock will eliminate whatever problem is caus

The sound-card driver appears to be up to date.

Since I have expereienced repeated blue-screen crashes on my desktop, I am trying to run Elemental on my laptop. The laptop's capabilities are less, but here' the specs: HP Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook Windows 7 Home Premium [64-bit] Intel Celeron CPU 900 2.2 GHz 2 GB RAM This seems to be sufficient as best as I can tell, and I have fewer crashes--and, so far, no blue-screen crashes. However, the game runs excruci

Updated the graphics card driver and took another chance. Three or four minutes in, another blue-screen crash.

Third blue-screen crash, once again followed by difficulty rebooting. I don't know enough about computers to know whether this may damage mine, so I think I'll have to wait for the next update before I play anymore.

I've read in another post here that, if you wait two or three minutes before pressing "Load," it doesn't freeze. It's worked for me.

I read in a post here that, if you wait two or three minutes before pressing "Load," it doesn't freeze. I've tried that, and it works for me.

That one worked fine for me, altho I've definitely had my share of crashes in other circumstances.

I submitted the files which Elemental creates--altho the second blue screen crash didn't result in one. Are those the files you mean?

I just got the game, and, in addition to frequent ctd's, I've had two blue screen crashes. Anyone esle? After the second one, it took me twenty minutes and numerous tries just to get my computer to reboot. I'm worried about continuing to play.