[1.04] Crash at startup (not amd)

[cawx]

Hello,
I start the game through the launcher, no intro, full/light/none and after loading it crashes. At the point I am supposed to see the menu, it crashes.

DirectDraw object created
About to Initialize video!

Setting Mode.
Mode Set.
Video Initialized!

Backbuffer cleared

Fonts Initialized!

Loadimage!

Loadimage used!

Starting to Initialize sound!

Sound fully initialized!

Network initialized!

MainPalettes initialized!

Core GFX initialized!

Initialising Map!

Map okay.

Ive had the game reinstalled. I have tried launching without the patch and it still crashes at the same spot. I don't think its the games fault, but I have been able to play the game before these crashes started. I dont remember what I did, since I had a break from playing darkest hour, but now once I came back it started crashing. I also tried reinstalling the drivers, but it still crashes.

Im on a small laptop/netbook Intel Atom CPU N2600 1.6ghz with intel graphics media accelerator 3600 series. Windows 7.

Its not the resolution problem, cause I got the resolution unlocked.

Basically, ive had the game running fine for multiple years, now after a break I am stopped by this wall. I have no idea.

Ill try almost anything, any help is appreciated

Thanks.

 

[ChrisFox]

I have this same problem. Oddly though the game doesn't work on vanilla or with any mods except for the TGC mod. Maybe the mod is magic!

 

[novapaddy]

Hello,
I start the game through the launcher, no intro, full/light/none and after loading it crashes. At the point I am supposed to see the menu, it crashes.



Ive had the game reinstalled. I have tried launching without the patch and it still crashes at the same spot. I don't think its the games fault, but I have been able to play the game before these crashes started. I dont remember what I did, since I had a break from playing darkest hour, but now once I came back it started crashing. I also tried reinstalling the drivers, but it still crashes.

Im on a small laptop/netbook Intel Atom CPU N2600 1.6ghz with intel graphics media accelerator 3600 series. Windows 7.

Its not the resolution problem, cause I got the resolution unlocked.

Basically, ive had the game running fine for multiple years, now after a break I am stopped by this wall. I have no idea.

Ill try almost anything, any help is appreciated

Thanks.

I have this same problem. Oddly though the game doesn't work on vanilla or with any mods except for the TGC mod. Maybe the mod is magic!

So I understand this correctly, you do a fresh install of dh, then update to dh1.04 version, and then after loading it crashes?

Try one more time, when it crashes, go Control Alt Delete, and see if there is a message showing, what does it say.

Please post the whole savedebug.txt file as an attachment.

 

[ChrisFox]

So I understand this correctly, you do a fresh install of dh, then update to dh1.04 version, and then after loading it crashes?

Try one more time, when it crashes, go Control Alt Delete, and see if there is a message showing, what does it say.

Please post the whole savedebug.txt file as an attachment.

From what I understand, we both have the issue that we've had the game, its worked in the past, and now suddenly it does not work.

For me it was fine a few months ago, I actually went to go play your mod and discovered that for some reason only that one mod works. I'll reinstall though, its not a massive game and it doesn't take long.

 

[novapaddy]

From what I understand, we both have the issue that we've had the game, its worked in the past, and now suddenly it does not work.

For me it was fine a few months ago, I actually went to go play your mod and discovered that for some reason only that one mod works. I'll reinstall though, its not a massive game and it doesn't take long.

I had the exact same problem.
DH worked fine on one pc, had not played it on that pc for months, decided to do so one day, result crashing. Why?
Nothing had changed in the meantime?

I discovered (for me) it was the latest amd video drivers. The latest drivers would not allow dh to run at all. Please see my pinned post in the Tech support area.
I had to go back to earlier amd drivers from the last time it had worked. Worked then.

Your problem may be something different?

 

[ChrisFox]

I had the exact same problem.
DH worked fine on one pc, had not played it on that pc for months, decided to do so one day, result crashing. Why?
Nothing had changed in the meantime?

I discovered (for me) it was the latest amd video drivers. The latest drivers would not allow dh to run at all. Please see my pinned post in the Tech support area.
I had to go back to earlier amd drivers from the last time it had worked. Worked then.

Your problem may be something different?

Nah, I have AMD drivers, though I haven't updated them because as always the new software they use fails and I'm too lazy to do it manually. It could be that windows forced the update though through its own odd updating system.

 

[ChrisFox]

Reinstalling doesn't seem to help the situation any.

TGC still works though!

 

[cawx]

Heres the savedebug.txt. I tried uninstalling video drivers completely and then installing the latest ones, but that didnt help. I still get the same crash. Game itself doesnt provide me with an error prompt. Its the windows who notices the program crashing and does its usual thing of "this program has stopped working".

I also checked the savefiles and the latest one was from 2016 02 22. So that was the last time I played darkest hour on that computer.

After doing the thing with the drivers, I am now thinking that the problem might be with windows? Maybe there was some update that screwed something up?

Windows reinstall seems like a major job and I dont think I will be doing it in the near time, but I am planning on trying to uninstall the video drivers and installing older drivers. Other than that, im out of ideas.

 

[cawx]

Sorry for a double post, but I feel like its necessary.


This fixed it for me. Once I disabled sprites through the launcher, the game launched fine and everything worked.

I found the problem and a temporary fix: Sprites and counters doesnt work properly (idk if it's because of steam or AMD) so to make DH work the sprites should be disabled by launcher. I ask the developers to find a more stable solution.

My game is not from steam and that particular computer doesnt have AMD. It has an integrated intel card (intel graphics media accelerator 3600 series) and the newest drivers for it are very old, I think 2013-2014. I managed to play the game with sprites on in 2016 02 22 and I didnt change anything, I think.

I dont know what caused this, im just glad the game works for me. Thank you for your help.

 

[vx33]

Hm this is interesting. My game always crashed at startup since I reinstalled it in early October. I thought that the new AMD drivers are responsible (I updated them shortly before installing DH).
Turns out, that turning off the sprites worked! I can now launch the game, as long as the unit sprites are disabled. So it wasn't the AMD bug after all?
But why is this happening now? DH worked without problems in July. I'm using the Steam version too btw.
Anyways, thank you for providing a solution.

 

[TheCrimsonMajor]

This fixed it for me. Once I disabled sprites through the launcher, the game launched fine and everything worked.

This worked for me, thanks!

FYI, I have an AMD card with the 16.10.1 drivers, but I didn't try rolling them back.