Crashing (Some more of that ... yay.)

[Riven]

OK ... I used the search function, and I didn't come up with anything. But, then again, I'm not too bright, so if this was mentioned before, please don't hurt me

Whenever I enter a battle or city during this game, everything works fine, usually. But then, sometimes, my game just randomly crashes: the screen goes all different colors, and I can't exit out, I have to shut down the computer by holding down the power button, then reboot. This means, every time I finish a "mission" in a long battle, I have to exit, save, and get back in the battle, so I lose a lot of good loot. Any thoughts on WHY this is happening? Thanks!

 

[Archonsod]

Specs?

 

[Riven]

er...I haven't the slightest idea... 

 

[Iberon]

Click on "Run" from the start menu, put in dxdiag and it should tell you what your computer's specs are.

Thats assuming your using windows.

 

[Riven]

Alright, I'll do that.

Woot, success. What information do you need?

 

[Von Rock]

Bought the game today and spent all afternoon and evening playing.. Saved regularly cos I was worried about it crashing on me.
Eventually it did. I had just completed a quest to deliver 4 pick axes to the main guy in Jekala (or wherever) and asked him for another mission. The game crashed out to windows (no error message) and when I reloaded it, my saved games for the past few hours had been overwritten and I had to accept being stripped back down to level 12 (from 1 and losing my army, armour and other cool gear I'd spent ages building up!!!
I doubt there is anything I can do to get that back apart from more blood, sweat and tears but is there anything I can do to avoid it happening in the future? I'm definetly going to back up my saved games folder for a start but would like any more advice if possible!
Thanks

 

[Volkier]

There is already a "backup" save, which is supposingly the save that was in effect just before you saved again. That should hopefully prefent similar problems (providing you DO save often enough)

 

[Talon]

I have the same problem except it happens at unpredictable times (world map, and battle/town) and usually with in 5 mins of starting a new game


(OS:WindowsXP Home, 512MB RAM, Intel Celeron 2.8, Nvidia Geforce2 MX 400 64MB, CMI18738/C3DX PCI audio device)

 

[Riven]

Woot, success. What information do you need?

Not to ... OK, yes to bump my own thread. This happened again yesterday, and it's really annoying....

 

[Archonsod]

Given the nature of the problem, Graphics card manufacturer, model, driver version and driver date is a good place to start.

Talon : The problem is likely the graphics card unfortunately. Make sure you've got the latest drivers, and turn the graphics settings down to minimum. Probably worth upgrading it to be honest.