davidjc_af

If this works man, you will have made me very very happy

Would these files cause a lot of CTDs by any chance?

The only thing I did was add that mod that gives me more clothing and item options for characters, anyone had any crashes due to this? I am getting a ton of crashes. But I can't see how the files I dropped in for items could hurt anything.....

slipstream patch did fix hero recruitment(for me)

So try installing and older driver like something before 10.2 that might get you back where you were. Then upgrade when you can. In fact the artifacts you had might have been due to older drivers in the first place. But hopefully you can easily get your system back up with older drivers. And then you can do this elaborate fix if you like.

Ok man this looks like to could be a doozy to fix this was taken from this post http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=130425&STARTPAGE=2&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear Here is his initial problem Hello all. Quick background, I'm a system b

[quote who="cmcnary" reply="13" id="2777729"]@Fearzone, @davidjc_af: Yeah, I've tried installing from Catalyst "full", and a "manual" install (which still runs Catalyst, really) from the ATI website you linked to. It goes through the whole install, then says "Install Failed" for the display driver, with no other explanation.[/quote] let me see if I can find out why, I usually can fix stuff like this.

Yeah its the same bug that is affecting archery right now there is a community made fix posted in support forums. Just cut and paste into the XML and it's fixed.

Good to see others share my misery

[quote who="Vyarloq" reply="10" id="2777717"]I just thought I'd offer my 2 cents. I am running Win 7 64 bit Premium with a Sapphire 5770 ATI graphics card, 8GB ram, 60GB SSD for C: drive and a 320 GB Velociraptor HDD for the games directory. Windows Experience rated at 7.0 (hdd limit). Unless my 100% failure to hit with a bow is due to my graphics drivers, I have no game problems related to the hardware. I updated to 1.08 with no troubles. I have had intermittent

Did you try installing this driver here? Should be the 5000 series ATI drivers. You can just follow the instructions I can't imagine it not working if ti doesn't post here again. http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon-win7-64.aspx (first link download at the top)

[quote who="Techubus" reply="10" id="2777677"] Quoting davidjc_af, reply 8 Quoting Frogboy, reply 5What is happening specifically in battles? I.e. it is just crashing or is something happening at the time? the CTDs seem to be related to special ability usage in battle. For instance an air elemental uses it's special ability in battle. I see the start of the animation (hand go up in the air) but then it CTDs right there on the spot before it finishes. I'm seeing the

[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="187" id="2777520"]I have not had EVEN 1 crash. The performance of the game is incredible now. I seriously doubt that there are so many crashes, your greatly over exaggerating. You are obviously having an issue, but its most likely just one crash issue. Did you try starting a new game? When does it crash? Posting your DEBUG file is EXTREMELY easy. All you have to do is upload one file, how much easier could it be? It takes a whole 2 minutes TOPS.[/quot

[quote who="cmcnary" reply="3" id="2777665"]Well, I wiped my drivers, and now Catalyst "fails" to install, so I have no video drivers. Thank you very much, Stardock. Now, instead of having a game that I paid $50 that doesn't work, I paid $50 to break my computer. What is wrong with you people that you would release a product in a state like this?!?[/quote] ROFL, I don't know that sucks. I have a 4870 ATI card and it works fine...as far as the graphics

Ok here is the debug.err filefor my latest crash http://filebin.ca/vnhayr/debug.err

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="5" id="2777364"]What is happening specifically in battles? I.e. it is just crashing or is something happening at the time?[/quote] the CTDs seem to be related to special ability usage in battle. For instance an air elemental uses it's special ability in battle. I see the start of the animation (hand go up in the air) but then it CTDs right there on the spot before it finishes. Likewise I had a hero with the ability to deal massive damage when I use his spec

[quote who="Rune_74" reply="9" id="2777627"] Quoting davidjc_af, reply 6It cannot be played right now. It's just sitting there. I can't even fight tactical battles without crashing constantly. I am not going to roll back to previous versions(fact is I don't even know how without full reinstall) nor amI going to disect a perfectly fine computer trying to tweak it for Stardock. OOM errors occur more often the bigger the maps and the more you save. The # of OOM

These are plaguing my game now since the hotfix. When I try to use special attacks I get CTDs in battles. I can cast spells fine, but that is about it. Likewise when the AI tries to use them i get a CTD. An Air Elemental was crashing my game every time it used an ability so finally I did a cheat and CNTRL+K killed the party because it was invincible since I can't auto resolve either without a CTD. I get them in autoresolves too. CTDs. It could be sound related I don't k

Updated every driver still getting CTDs. In fact I can tell you almost anytime I use a special ability such as crush or any Champion special ability(unique ones) I get a crash. The animation starts and then a CTD. When an Air Elemental tried to cast something CTD. When units use special attacksor abilities in tactical gamemode the game is crashing. When I try to autoresolve I get CTDs. I Get CTDs due to OOM. This is a very unstable buggy version. Oh and thanks for the t

The only major improvements I want to see is the tactical battles being refined(things like flanking, different movement speeds for units, obstacles stopping archery and so on) and AI in general. Everything else is balance tweaking and with really good mod tools the game will be around for a long time.

Yeah I had this happen to me too, lost all my champions this way. I had to reload an old saved game.

How do I use the patch. I ran this once with 1.07 and it really did not seem to do anything. It has the A for add menu that comes up and I don't know what to do then. So I just exit.

Ok well I can't go where the OP is going. The game lacks some serious balance. And that is because balance tweaking is something that is usually perfected last in the production process. All of the core mechanics to make this a great game are there plus the ability to mod. This was the same thing that plagued Oblivion when it was released, it was very ambitous but because they were so enveleoped in the complexity of the game they could not get an overall coehsive game balance going. That mean

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="11" id="2777483"] Quoting davidjc_af, reply 10Attempting to try and find an updated driver for sound card. I really can't find one for Vista. I am not really prepared to tear my computer to pieces to get this game running correctly. I can install anything else i want and it runs perfect. Why in the world do I want to reconfigure my whole system in probably a vain attempt to get this game running? No, if for some reason

For the CTDs alone this patch is very very bad. Before it was playable now I can't even run the game.