JonCrane Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Trying Paradox CM Shock Force on an upgraded home computer. Now CM crashes on startup saying CM has 'stopped working'. I've downloaded the 1.11 demo & it does the same so I suppose its not a securom problem & not fixable by just buying Marines. All software & drivers patched to newest versions. CM reinstalled. Hardware/software Vista business 32 bit Athlon 5000 dual core 4Gb ram ATi 4670 512kb I tried all the compatibility & run as administrator settings. My other paradox copy works fine on my less powerful vista basic pc & so I am now stuck for a solution Event viewer log is not too helpful - nothing saying CM hates my graphics card or similar. Any suggestions/known issues? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Try and update your ATI Catalyst drivers. Current version is 8.12 and should be downloaded right from www.ati.com See if those make any difference. Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCrane Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Unfortunately 8.12 did not help. Any other ideas short of reverting to XP? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 What's the exact error you get when the 1.11 Demo doesn't work ? Does this happen immediately upon launching CMSF or does it occur once you try to start a game from the main menu (i.e. - you can get to the main menu without crashing) ? Not that it may make much of a difference here, but do you have Service Pack 1 installed for your Vista OS ? If this Vista DVD is a recent purchase (OEM ?), then it most likely has SP1 slip-streamed into it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCrane Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 It's a clean install of 32 bit vista business rather than an upgrade. Not OEM. SP1 has been installed. On starting CM the cd icon appears within a second or so, and then within a second or two of that a grey box 10 cm by 5 cm appears saying that CM shock force.exe has stopped working. Below that it says windows is looking for a solution. Within about 5 seconds of that a message appears saying that windows will close the program and notify me if a solutionis available. I never get a sniff of the loading screen, music or anything like that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Have you tried running it in XP SP2 compatibility mode? http://forums.cnet.com/5208-12546_102-0.html?forumID=133&threadID=251860&messageID=2511842 Let me know if that helps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCrane Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Yep, I've tried all compatibility modes including resolutions & colours. All result in the same immediate crash. When I get time at the weekend I shall swap in my other PC's Nvidia graphics card & see if that works. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCrane Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 Swapped my Asus graphics EAH 4670 card out & used the Nvida option. Problem solved in as much as CM no longer crashes. Unfortunately my Nvida solution is very slow. I guess I'll drop a note to Asus & ATi & start going back though various driver iterations. Thank you for your assistance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonCrane Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 It seems that it's not my EAH4670 card that CM does not like after all. Oh no, it's Asus' OSD application that CM Shock Force hates. OSD is an on the fly overclocking gizmo. Uninstall it & everything is ok. Now if only I had not installed Catalyst 8.12, deinstalled Catalyst 8.12 installed Catalyst 8.2, deinstalled Catalyst 8.2, deinstalled the steam that I did not want that came with 8.2, reinstalled 8.12, switched on & off the relevant ASDS service, disabled & enabled the asus devices, installed open gl extension checker, ..... etc, etc. My thanks to a Rocketman thread from 2006 that clued me in a bit. Bye for now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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