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Home » news » forums » Support & Feedback » Technical Support

SEV Crashes

Submitted by Rodriguez on Sat, 2007-06-02 11:46. Technical Support

Whenever I start the game it crashes either right at the beginning (before the intro pictures can be seen) or 1-2 seconds after I started a game. Everything looks normal beside that and when I am able to enter the game I can even rotate the map for a short time.
The crashes are very bad when starting in fullscreen mode (which depends on the selected display driver) because I cant even get back to windows screen or view the task manager. So apparently its some kind of a display problem...
I tried all kind of setup combinations already and have the most recent driver for my video card. (Which doesn't mean much...)

What can I do? Sad

‹ Multiplayer Probleme Problem with video card and flickering ›
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Re: SEV Crashes

Submitted by Captain Kwok on Sat, 2007-06-02 13:30.

In setup, try setting video memory to "SAFE".

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Re: SEV Crashes

Submitted by Rodriguez on Sat, 2007-06-02 13:39.

Doesn't solve the problem. Sad

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Re: SEV Crashes

Submitted by jeremy on Sat, 2007-06-02 14:28.

What's your video card? I was having similar problems a few months ago, and it turned out my video card had failed. I stopped playing SE:V, and within a few weeks, the card had degraded to the point where it bluescreened upon entering XP at all.

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Re: SEV Crashes

Submitted by Rodriguez on Sat, 2007-06-02 15:39.

O_O
I have a ATI Mobility Radeon 9700. Sadly only drivers from my laptop manufacturer (Acer) work so there is not much I could do besides change some settings.

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Re: SEV Crashes

Submitted by Rodriguez on Tue, 2007-06-05 09:14.

Is there nothing else I could try?

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Re: SEV Crashes

Submitted by jeremy on Mon, 2007-07-02 23:26.

Sorry, Rodriguez, I have no further suggestions Sad

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Re: SEV Crashes

Submitted by Rodriguez on Sat, 2007-09-22 12:33.

Sorry for the necro but I finally found a way to solve the problem! I just had to edit the Settings.txt as described on the troubleshooting guide at malfador.com:
Allow Music := FALSE
Allow Sound := FALSE

I therefore no longer have to play SE5 on my 500 Megahertz Oldsmobile!

Yay! \o/

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