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Played about 50 turns now on my 1.3 grand campaign, no stablity issues at all. The only thing that's still pissing me off is the pathfinding during a siege - for example having your men ignore an open gate and instead use the rappels on the other side of the city is beyond annoying. Still, it's worth putting up with as the game is great in almost every other way.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 14:33 Post subject: |
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no problems with my retail , special units version , even with the larest pacth , but im sellin the game , dont have time to play it , i semm my steam account with the game 25 euros , if anyone wants PM me.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 15:50 Post subject: |
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hard boots? seriously?
that's a driver issue
nothing to do with the game
unless if it has some seriously invasive protection (starforce), but it's just plain steam so no, it's a driver issue
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 16:51 Post subject: |
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Hm...I did a "clean" install, means no sub folders whatsoever, took care about all that before installing.
I am thinking it has to do with the 1.3 patch, some get the freezes and some not. I also tried some older ATI drivers like 9.3 and what have you, same result...freeze! within minutes of getting in to the campaign map.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 17:17 Post subject: |
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CC,
Not had anything like ATT running and left it installed did you and not clean that all out before reinstalling drivers?
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 17:54 Post subject: |
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"ATT" sorry but not sure what you mean there. As for the graphic driver,
what I normally do is delete the drivers the normal way, boot in safe mode and run Driver Sweeper, then CCleaner, again in safe mode. Boot up normally and install the new driver. So in theory there should not be any traces left from the old driver.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 17:56 Post subject: |
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No thats right, its how i do it, but I was more concerned that Ati tray tools if used uses registry type hooks or something.
I always remove Ati tray tools first before drivers and delete the profiles etc when asked.., then remove drivers boot to safe mode and use cleaner etc, then delete any remaining folders in hidden areas that sometimes get left. (on odd occasions driver sweeper does not seem to remove all traces.)
Anyhow annoying, unless its got something more to do with your X2 card where as Im on a single 4870.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 17:57 Post subject: |
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Well, that rules out gfx driver problem. So, maybe it's a sound driver problem.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 18:15 Post subject: |
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yeah if its hard boots and blue screen lockups etc etc its normaly one of three things,
1) card drivers
2) sound drivers
3) overclocking issues.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 18:32 Post subject: |
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Ok. will uninstall the sound driver (Creative) and see if I still get the freezes, should be pretty fast to check as it happens like 3-8 min in game.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 18:35 Post subject: |
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Or you can try globally disabling hardware acceleration in dxdiag.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 18:38 Post subject: |
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1.3 introduced dual core support so its likely thats the problem. Maybe setting affinity to only one core would help.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 18:49 Post subject: |
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Hm...running a E8500 C2D here, but ok, will give that a go as well.
Cheers guys. At the mo I am reinstalling to another HD...just trying to eliminate stuff 
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 19:03 Post subject: |
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Your aware there is a new driver from creative as of 26th of this mnth coxy ?
X-fi cards, im guessing u use one.
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 19:07 Post subject: |
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I think thats the one I got when i installed Windows 7
SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0013
or?
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 19:09 Post subject: |
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yes, i thought u had installed win7 ages ago thats all. that is the latest so it seems. but they were released 3 days ago.
On a diff not if u find it is sound related glottis posted link to daniel_K's drivers which support x-fi that were released in may i believe.
not sure what thread but a glottis search would suffice im sure 
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CaptainCox
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 19:45 Post subject: |
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If I change the "Affinity" setting to only one core, the game simply goes black and freezes on map load  .
Will try the sound theory next.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 21:02 Post subject: |
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Heck CC, sounds like strange behaviour.. something is defo porked and prob not the game by looks of it. Im guessing everyother game runs like butter for you ? No heat issues etc etc..
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 21:13 Post subject: |
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I am getting "Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered." in both ETW and now in Mass Effect (thought I would install that to see if I get the same "freezes/crashes" and I do...well, at least the game goes black, still running sort a in the background and I can't get out using alt/ctr/del, sometimes I can but not all the time = hard boot.
The temps are running up to like 65-70 max, checking it with Everest on my G15 screen all the time (was one of my 1st concerns)
Back to the drawing board I guess. There are so many threads about the "atikmdag stopped responding" on the net I don't even know where to start looking .
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 21:39 Post subject: |
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Yeah ive had it first off with my 8800gtx before i went to ati again. Although this was not good news for my gtx as it later artifacted when I thought it was all sorted and had to rma it.
Usually though that crash is relating to driver software soley or with a combination of software and clocking issues. If your pretty sure its neither now of those, hmmmm I guess you will have to accept the card might be going lame lol.
The threads about atikmdag are of course the same as ntldmk ones etc pretty much confusing with no real info lol.. Get a card bench test going, Ati tray tools uses a bench test/overclock stress test and you might find that if its the card it will let you know with that.
Probably other card stress testers out there as well, but never really had to use them perse' even clocking with the CCC will test if you use autotune.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 22:00 Post subject: |
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might be a combination of hardware or drivers getting their "streams crossed"
you got your motherboard drivers installed?
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Jun 2009 23:58 Post subject: |
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I used to have that message in some games with some geforce card, but it was just a driver/game incompatibility. so it's not necessarily a hardware problem.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jun 2009 09:45 Post subject: |
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I think I nailed it down. Ran Memtest86 all night and i got errors on the 6th and 7th pass. I took out 2 of my RAM modules and put back the Corsair fan that came with the modules (took that off when I installed the cooler for my HD4870x2) and now all seems to be fine. Played the game for almost one hour.
Could be that the 2 modules I took out are ok but was just overheating due to the "no fan" situation. I might pop them back later to see if it works out, if not I just buy another set, DDR2 are pretty cheap anyway.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Jun 2009 10:18 Post subject: |
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Awesome coxy, at least you found the hardware at fault.. corsair dominator ram I used never overheated, but I did have trouble with using 4 sticks on my board/2 was fine. So in the end I did the unthinkable for me, I sold them all on and bought OcZ ram and never had any troubles.
Corsair and the dominator was always my first choice when building of late, never used to get problems, but seemed my motherboard did not really like using it that much.
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Jul 2009 07:19 Post subject: |
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[-]July 1, 2009 - Empire: Total War Update Released
Updates to Empire: Total War have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Empire: Total War
Land Battles – Fixed exit crash which could occur when grouping/ungrouping
Grand Campaign - Settlement battle – Fixed instances of invisible deployable defenses
steam exe only - NOT CUMULATIVE THIS TIME
if you have clean install use my lates 1.3 patch then overwrite the exe with this fix (original steam file)
http://rapidshare.com/files/250926865/Empire_1.3_fix.rar.html
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| Posted: Thu, 2nd Jul 2009 07:29 Post subject: |
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thanks man
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| Posted: Sun, 5th Jul 2009 14:05 Post subject: |
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Anyone got a link to a work-around to play on LAN? Have looked on a few pages here but to prevail.
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