Solved - Waterloo scenario 20 crash to desktop

[sweeteye]

I am most sorry to have to report a CTD while playing scenario twenty. It is as you may know the full battle,as the allied army commander.I was at the last 15 minutes of the 9 hour scenario and out of the blue it crashed.Unfortunately I did not realize the auto save had set itself back to zero and the last save I made was four hours back. Very frustrating as the scenario was nearly finished.I am running windows 7 on an old Toshiba Satellite laptop.Not sure of all the pc specs off the top of my head but I am able to run most games alright.The scenario seemed to be running pretty good.This is a good example of why I prefer old fashioned tabletop board wargames with dice.Only have to beware of my cat getting on the table and scattering the pieces.

Very frustrated here in Ohio......................

[sweeteye]

After thinking about the CTD a bit I am inclined to think the the problem is with my pc....Perhaps I should cut the graphics back some.I am going to restart the scenario at my last save and let it run through while I crash to my own desktop for the night.See if the scenario can finish out. :sick:

[ColBlimp]

My PC is seven years old now. I have to have the sprite ratio set to 6 to get a reasonably smoothish experience in that scenario.

[mitra76]

I suggest you to set the autosave option to 1 minute, both because you can have a restart point without replay the full scenario and also because it can help us to see if the problem is of game or if is a hardware problem

[con20or]

Do you have an integrated graphics card? People using laptops with those have reported some problems on the large scenarios.

http://www.norbsoftdev.net/forum/nuts-a ... enario-ctd

That is why we specify a dedicate graphics card in the min specs.

"Video: 256 MB Dedicated Video Card with DirectX 9.0c or higher. Video card should NOT be integrated on motherboard, but should be separate, no shared memory"

[sweeteye]

Thanks for the responses......I do have an integrated graphics card which is most likely my problem. Just going to have to make do for a while until I am able to get a better pc. I cut the graphics back and am trying to finish out the scenario.Tried to run it over night but the game automatically minimizes with inactivity and pauses itself. Still have a couple of hours to go....

[con20or]

You are very welcome. I know our AI is good but you must not have been trying very hard if you were going to leave it run while asleep

[sweeteye]

Yes....I kind of gave up on fighting out the scenario...Had a good one going.The AI had beat me good.It was only with continuous counter attacks that I was able to take back Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte..I did not use the Prussians very well....Was hoping for a draw and then boom CTD....Kind of took the wind out of me.

[con20or]

There is an autosave option - set that and you will have a very recent backup.

[sweeteye]

Going to make sure and check that the autosave is set each time I load the game to continue playing.

Whew! ...I did manage to get the scenario to finish out to the end screen....cut the graphics way back.
At least I still have some chance of running the full battle scenarios out to the end.
Ready to try it again.....this time as the French.....

Thanks again for all the helpful input.