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Sarganto -> random freeze crash (2/9/2009 11:57:22 PM)
I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before. When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc. I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago. I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card. Any ideas?

khyberbill -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 12:00:57 AM)
quote: I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before. When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc. I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago. I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card. This happens to me now and then. I just mutter and re-start the turn.

Sarganto -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 12:29:13 AM)
It doesn't happen "now an then" for me, but more like every 2-3 hours. I could live with it, if it was once a week or every 50 turns or so. But it happens definitely too often.

khyberbill -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 1:12:27 AM)
quote: It doesn't happen "now an then" for me, but more like every 2-3 hours. I could live with it, if it was once a week or every 50 turns or so. But it happens definitely too often. Yes, and I can get to task manager. Your problem does seem much more severe. This happens to me rarely. But I usually run a turn in less than 30 minutes so that may be a factor too.

Nomad -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 4:33:40 AM)
Try renaming your SOUND folder to NOSOUND and see if that cures the problem You will not have any sounds but sounds and codexs have been problems since version 1.0 ( but not so much after about version 1.5 )

rtrapasso -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 10:21:37 AM)
Since it is happening now, but apparently didn't happen before, something has apparently changed with your system, maybe due to a Microsoft VISTA automatic upgrade (if you have those turned on) ... a couple of possible solutions spring to mind aside from the one already offered. 1) update all your drivers, esp. sound drivers/video board drivers and codecs. 2) If this doesn't work, consider a rollback of your system to an earlier restore point. Not sure how this works with VISTA (or if it is even possible).

herwin -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 10:28:29 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sarganto I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before. When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc. I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago. I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card. Any ideas? Sound driver problem.

rtrapasso -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 1:24:36 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: herwin quote: ORIGINAL: Sarganto I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before. When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc. I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago. I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card. Any ideas? Sound driver problem. Probably the most likely, although we had one fellow have a similar problem, and it turned out he (or, more likely Microsoft) had somehow loaded 38 or so copies of his codec... [X(]

Rainer -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 2:38:38 PM)
I recommend also to rename the folder VIDEO to NOVIDEO, just in case. IF it is a driver or codec problem it makes sense to disable both.

rtrapasso -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 2:49:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Rainer I recommend also to rename the folder VIDEO to NOVIDEO, just in case. IF it is a driver or codec problem it makes sense to disable both. Yep - see Nomad's post above. EDIT: my recommendations above are in case the sound effects are desired... they are not necessary to play the game, but i usually get a kick out of them... [8D]

Sarganto -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 3:19:09 PM)
Yesterday, after writing the post and reading some other threads in the forum, I decided to try the windowed mode. Not related to my problem, just wanted to try playing a bit in a window. But now it seems, I don't have the problem when playing in window mode. No crash in over 10h of playing. Seems like I have to stick to the window mode. But I have no idea, why everything works fine now. [&:]

rtrapasso -> RE: random freeze crash (2/10/2009 3:26:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sarganto Yesterday, after writing the post and reading some other threads in the forum, I decided to try the windowed mode. Not related to my problem, just wanted to try playing a bit in a window. But now it seems, I don't have the problem when playing in window mode. No crash in over 10h of playing. Seems like I have to stick to the window mode. But I have no idea, why everything works fine now. [&:] Out of curiosity, if you don't play in windowed mode, does the problem still occur? [&:]

Sarganto -> RE: random freeze crash (2/11/2009 12:30:45 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rtrapasso quote: ORIGINAL: Sarganto Yesterday, after writing the post and reading some other threads in the forum, I decided to try the windowed mode. Not related to my problem, just wanted to try playing a bit in a window. But now it seems, I don't have the problem when playing in window mode. No crash in over 10h of playing. Seems like I have to stick to the window mode. But I have no idea, why everything works fine now. [&:] Out of curiosity, if you don't play in windowed mode, does the problem still occur? [&:] I guess so. I didn't change anything, but add a "-w" to the shortcut and now everything runs smoothly. Smoothly and windowed :D

Sarganto -> RE: random freeze crash (2/13/2009 5:18:40 PM)
Now I had the first crash of WitP since changing into window-mode. quote: Problemsignatur: Problemereignisname: AppHangB1 Anwendungsname: War In The Pacific.exe Anwendungsversion: 1.8.0.0 Anwendungszeitstempel: 443edb55 Absturzsignatur: c2af Absturztyp: 2048 Betriebsystemversion: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Gebietsschema-ID: 1031 Zus�tzliche Absturzsignatur 1: 26cb5f11fbbcc7f1e7aa22f14df60f95 Zus�tzliche Absturzsignatur 2: 1704 Zus�tzliche Absturzsignatur 3: b29cfa772d5f280e2d9e3e98fd30b488 Zus�tzliche Absturzsignatur 4: c2af Zus�tzliche Absturzsignatur 5: 26cb5f11fbbcc7f1e7aa22f14df60f95 Zus�tzliche Absturzsignatur 6: 1704 Zus�tzliche Absturzsignatur 7: b29cfa772d5f280e2d9e3e98fd30b488 Don't know if that's related to the other problem. But only WitP crashed, just closed and restarted it.

Nomad -> RE: random freeze crash (2/13/2009 6:19:16 PM)
Have you tried renaming your sound folder yet? Sounds and codexs are the biggest cause of crashes for WitP.

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