random crashes

[omegawhitty]

The game crashes every five minutes or so whenever I play.

it un-freezes whenever I press alt and tab then press it again,

Does this happen to anyone else?

I've tried both version 4.5 and 5.0 but it still happened, this does not happen when i play the native pack.

Its aggrivating!

 

[Azn_soul]

my game does that too but i found out its because mount&blade doesn't like widescreen on my laptop.

 

[omegawhitty]

Oh, i'm using a laptop with a widescreen too but I run it on 1024x640 or whatever. So it shouldn't really affect it?

 

[Azn_soul]

yea but my laptop around 18.5"-19" screen so its 1366X768 screen size

 

[omegawhitty]

Same here. My desktop resolution is 1366x768

 

[Lamey]

I've got a widescreen on my desktop and I'm not having this particular problem.

I was getting the rgl error crash until I turned my texture quality down.

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To clarify: I don't know if you're having the same root problem, but you could test turning down your texture quality.  I set mine to 70% and I stopped crashing.  Later on, when the battles just got too huge to do at 100 soldiers a fight, I pushed my battle size up to 200 and had to lower my texture quality to 60%.

In addition to the crashes I would sometimes see all the soldiers blink black for a single frame.

 

[kaze-yaida]

This dosn't sound like the vertext buffer error. I have to ask, does it FREEZE or CRASH, if freeze try and find the conditions that it was happening in, number of units type of field ect.

If your getting vertex buffer error its a known glitxch and the solution and explinaiton is on the first page of this forum.

 

[omegawhitty]

Well, it freezes not crashes. but it would start when there is over 30-50 players in the field. Or when I'm moving too fast on a horse. But then it will progress to follow through the map as well so as soon as it starts it will jsut stop then I press alt+tab and press it again and it works for another say 15-30 seconds depending on whether my character is moving.

 

[kaze-yaida]

it SOUNDs like your system can't handle all the troops at once time, but that dosn't explain why its freezing. and it certainly is unexpected because even with the bandit parties the addition shouldn't cause this much of a problem.

it sounds msot like your system can't handle the amount of parties, see if its actually freezing or simpply loading. Try these to find out.

I may be wrong, and if anyone has experience this I would say it now as if its not lag this is a serious glitch and may take some collaberation to fix.

1) when it "Freezes" dont alt+tab, instead step away for 5 mintues and come back, see if it truely froze.
2) turn on some menu like reports, and leave it there for a while, see if it freezes or if its just the world map(towns will also do)

If both of those are true you may need somone from the team who actually knows how much memory the world map uses and can say if your computer can handle it.

 

[omegawhitty]

Well the thing is... I can hear the fighting in the background like battles will finish with my screen frozen, the only thing is I don't think it is my computer because it runs the native package fine even on sieges.

I mean I don't have the best laptop but the system specs are:

Pentium (R) dual core CPU T4500 @2.3GHz 2.30 GHz
4.00 GB installed RAM
64 bit op system windows 7
Intel Graphics media accellerator driver for mobile (no idea about graphics card but it said this for it )

 

[Azn_soul]

First question how does your weapons look? are they steel shined or are they dull grey? and second which direct X do you have your mount&blade on? It seems highly likley your problems are coming from your graphics card.

 

[omegawhitty]

I use Direct x 9, the shiny stuff. I think you may be right, I'm in work at the moment but I'll load the mod later and see if it works after I change it to direct x7. I'll check back with you then. Nothing messes up on original mount and blade but it could be that..