Lethaface Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Having played and loved the original ToW, one (major) dissapointment for me was its stability. It was part of the reason I didn't complete all the campaigns and got bothered with it after playing a good year. Recently I tried to start it up again (interested in the new campaign), however the game doesnt really run on my brand new rig (coreI7, ati 4870x2, 6gb, vista64). Every battle crashes after a given period of time. Still, ToW gave me some very enjoyable moments. The ToW2 demo did also crash on me, however only once or twice. Performance was good. Had some problems with flickering background and applying some settings in the menus though. Can anyone advice me on the stability of the main game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 Stability for me at least, during all my testing the past few months has been exceptional. With ToW, did you ever download and install the Uber Patch? For most people, that solved the stability issues in the game. Madmatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted April 24, 2009 Author Share Posted April 24, 2009 Hey, thanks for the info. Yes, the uber patch seemed to improve stability on my old pc, however I didn't really have the time to play it at that time. However on my new pc the game the game runs worse then ever. Perhaps its a newly introduced problem since my hardware wasn't available at that moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 I've posted my spec's in other theads on this board, but I can tell you that I too have an I7 system and ToW 1 and ToW 2 both run very stable for me. Now, I run ToW 1 in Vista64 and ToW 2 in Windows 7 beta, but again, they both run very well and very stable. Here are my spec's again so you can compare: SYSTEM SPECS Hardware: EVGA X58 TRI-SLI main board I7 940 cpu with Thermaltake SpinQ Cooler 12 GB Corsair XMS PC1066 Triple Channel Ram nVidia GeForce 260 Superclocked Edition PCI-E GPU (2x) Western Digital 150 GB SATA HDD (not currently in RAID config) (1x) Seagate 500 GB SATA II HDD RealTek 5.1 Ch Audio Lite-On DVD Multi Recorder Drive TSST DVD RW Drive Antec Nine Hundred Case Ultra X3 1000w ATX Power Supply BOSE Companion 3 series 2.1 Speakers Acer AL2216w 22" widescreen LCD Monitor Acer X223 Wbd 22" widescreen LCD Monitor Software: Dual Boot setup Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit w/SP1 Microsoft Windows 7 beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafer Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 i played about 6 hours, no ctd.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted April 25, 2009 Author Share Posted April 25, 2009 Hey, Thanks, yup I bought it yesterday and altough I only played the tutorial missions until now, they ran stable. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totm8er Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Played some hours now. Finished the first 2 missions of the amies. Crashed to desktop ...I think 4 or 5 times. So not all issues are fixed, but then again...the game and the playability are great. I'll take some crashes for granted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaksie Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 When the game crashed, i mean it crashed during loading, playing a mission, saving or when? What video card model do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totm8er Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 When the game crashed, i mean it crashed during loading, playing a mission, saving or when? What video card model do you have? Most of the time during saving, and after a new mission start. After loading a saved mission (the one which resulted in a crash) it also ctdt config mb: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3,17GHz 1333fsb 6MB Box S775 vc: Asus GeForce ENGTX280/HTDP 1GB DDR3 PCI-E 2xDVI mem: 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 p/n KHX6400D2/2G Another thing... sometimes the background of the menu / map iterface turns black... i'll make some screenshots so you can see what I mean. thx for your quick respons. (if you want me to sent you a logfile...let me know) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totm8er Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 auch... the game crashes a lot now... also while playing in game, also with saving and loading. First 2 missions were ok... but the battle of beitla isn't working like this. please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totm8er Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 A got a lot of these while crashing to the desktop when I try to save the game. Now playing second mission of the British Runtime error#(trap) Please, contact the vendor of this application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdeath Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Played a few hours so far, did the tutorial missions a few times and have the last mission left on the American campaign, got totally overrun on the first try So maybe like 8-10 hours of playing. No stability issues so far, even tabbed out of game to read the manual without any mishaps. Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1 QX9650 / Asus Maximus Extreme.4 gb DDR3 / XFX GTX 260 (Nvidia Drivers 178.13).X-FI / 150gb Raptor + x2 500gb WD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaksie Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 totm8er What is your video card model, how much onboard video RAM? ratdeath So you almost completed US campaign? Wow) I would advise concentrating your tanks near the pass you must defend and at least immobilize enemy armor if you can't kill it (Tigers) until reinforcement Wolverines arrive. This is tough because one German tank gets through and mission failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdeath Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 ratdeath So you almost completed US campaign? Wow) I would advise concentrating your tanks near the pass you must defend and at least immobilize enemy armor if you can't kill it (Tigers) until reinforcement Wolverines arrive. This is tough because one German tank gets through and mission failed. Thanks, I will try that Yeah, the mighty Tiger is a tough panzer to beat with my M3 and M4's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totm8er Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Hi Sneaksie, My specs are: Zalman 850 Watt (ZM850-HP) 1 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3,17GHz 1333fsb 6MB Box S775 1 Zalman Cooling CNPS9700-NT for all sockets 2 Samsung F1 1000GB 7200rpm SATA2 32mb p/n HD103UJ 2x1TB in RAID 0 2 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR2-800 p/n KHX6400D2/2G 1 Asus GeForce ENGTX280/HTDP 1GB DDR3 PCI-E 2xDVI 1 Asus P5Q Pro, CF, GLan, P45, D-DDR2, PCI-E2.0, S775 {1600fsb} 1 soundcard Asus Xonar DX/XD Low Proifile 7.1 Audio PCI-X Ret. 1 26" TFT Iiyama E2607WS-B1 Zwart 2ms DVI + HDMI (3jr P&R) 301,681 301,68 Vista Ultimate Updated my geforce driver from 180.48 to 185.68 yesterday, but nothing good happened. Bought the system last december, no problems with other games, or crashes what so ever Played 2 german missions... the third crashes after 2 minutes after the start. So now I am done playing TOW2 because I have similar problems with the American and English third mission. Really hope you can help me because I really like the game. Hope to hear from you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sargemy Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Hey I feel like chiming in. I just downloaded and installed the game yesterday. Played a couple of campaign battles. The first US battle and second one was rock solid. However, I started playing the British campaign, and now I am on "Road to Thala" battle. The game keeps on crashing to desktop with or without windows error warning during the loading screen or randomly during the middle of my battle. Very frustrating. The game crashed twice during the US campaign also, but it was able to play stably throughout the battle after a reload. My system has been rock stable for all other games I play and this is my dedicated gaming desktop: Antec 900 case with lots of fans for cooling ASRock P45XE motherboard Intel E6600 CPU 4GB DDR2 800 dual channel ram AMD Radeon 4870 512MB with catalyst 9.4 drivers Creative Lab X-Fi Xtreme Gamer PCI sound card 2x 74GB WD Raptor HDDs PATA DVD burner Running on Vista Home Premium SP1 32bit Other games that run stable and at max settings: BF2, Redorchestra, CoD WaW, Empire Total War. Otherwise, I love the game, I think it is much better than the first one. For some reason, I feel like I can handle the soldiers much better, like they would obey my commands and there is not "lag" when commanding them. However I do agree there are some infantry problems. They seem to get run down way too easily. And also the enemy have super spotting, especially on the 2nd US battle. My howitzers keep getting killed by unknown enemy arty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannwt49 Posted April 26, 2009 Share Posted April 26, 2009 Here's my info, getting lots of CTD's with no error message's for why. Time of this report: 4/26/2009, 17:12:48 Machine name: DATA Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: System Product Name BIOS: BIOS Date: 08/10/06 20:36:11 Ver: 08.00.12 Processor: Intel® Core2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz (2 CPUs) Memory: 2048MB RAM Page File: 672MB used, 3271MB available Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode isplay Devices --------------- Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce 7950 GX2 DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0293&SUBSYS_038010DE&REV_A1 Display Memory: 512.0 MB Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor Monitor Max Res: 1600,1200 Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll Driver Version: 6.14.0011.8250 (English) DDI Version: 9 (or higher) Driver Attributes: Final Retail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaksie Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Guys, please run the game, try to load the problematic save and if the game crashes, zip the save that doesn't load and send it to dina@1c.ru along with log.lst file created in game folder and your dxdiag report file. If the game crashed during play, just send log.lst and dxdiag files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromit Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 With regard to your videocard, turn off antialiasing and ansiotropic filtering to see if it makes any difference. I still have occasional lockups and texture corruption on my PC with certain games (I don't have ToW2) due to these issues. Another thing to try when you have graphics corruption (black screen you mentioned, etc.) is to turn off "conformant texture clamp" in the NVidia control panel. These have helped some when I couldn't find a solution under normal means. Not having AA/AF kinda sucks, but, it's probably only a tweak by 1C or Nvidia away from working as it should. Try the same "dial down" of other settings too and see what if any effect they might have on ToW2. Some games are just sensitive under certain conditions (card brand Q, setting Z, game X, etc.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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