diverse random crashes (dump included)

Shadowhal

Warlord
Joined
Jan 26, 2006
Messages
242
hey

I have lately been experiencing a series of crashes, which I cannot fully explain. they appear in two different mods, RFC Rand and LoR. sometimes it complains about a memory allocation failure, other times I get no message whatsoever. I could only partly reproduce the crashes, that means they do occur several times at the same turn, but some few times I can go on only to be crashed a dozen or so turns later. also, related, after reinstalling the game I received a message that my computer did not meet the system requirements, well, look below for my stats and judge for yourself. the crashes have so far also occured at different time periods and with varying amount of civs and stuff going on, so it's not necessarily end game clamp down.

I did come across the function to save dump files and used it on my most recent, dumped game which promptly caused a crash and a 1+ gb(!) dump file. is that normal? I clicked on a full dump, but seriously? this is a text file, no? well, in any case, is that normal behavior? would it help to reduce it to a normal dump, which I could then proceed to attach.

alright, finally here are my system stats:

Vista 32 bit
intel Q 6.600 @ 2,4 Ghz
Ati 4870
4 gigs ram

tried to include all relevant information, if I missed anything, I'll make any effort to supply it. thanks in advance for any help. oh, and graphics drivers are to date, checked that today for a possible reason.

edit: I attached a compressed dump file from when I tried to load the game just now. a LoR game, crashed when I tried to enter civililopedia. no particular error msg given.
 

Attachments

so I thought, but I figured that maybe some official guys take a look into the forums every once in a while. or that tools were available for the very active. was worth a try.

in the meantime I did another uninstall/ reinstall and this time made sure the complete folders were deleted. also, I took care to install 3.17 first before 3.19, as I read it could cause problems otherwise. so far I have had no more troubles, but I did not play that much, so I'm not sure yet, whether the problem is solved. if I get more crashes I will post the dxdiag files. which lines in the .ini file do I have to activate exactly for this and are these files under '...BeyondtheSword\logs' or elsewhere?

thx for the help and let's hope I won't need any more of it. but given that the original install was also causing problems I somehow doubt it.
 
Back
Top Bottom