CK2 won't start - suspected issue with Z Cinema speakers

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Hi, I've just bought CK2 and cannot get it to start. Specifically when I run the ck2.exe I see a rotating hourglass, then nothing. If I click once the screen goes black, twice it goes white with a "CK2 has stopped working" box.

Attached are my dxdiag and setting files along with system log. Both error and setup logs are blank.

View attachment DxDiag.txt
View attachment settings.txt
View attachment system.txt

I've been through the forums and tried all known issues and graphical fixes without success. Looking at the log it appears my problem is with the sound but I cannot see how to solve it. I have tried disabling, updating and re-installing the z cinema speakers but with no luck. Any assistance would be much appreciated.

 

[AndrewT]

Edit settings.txt and make refreshRate=60

Looking at the log it appears my problem is with the sound

You mean how the system.txt file stops at the Initialising Sound line? You can check this theory by disabling sound, as a test edit setting.txt to say master_volume=0

You could also check with the vendor for a newer sound driver.

 

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I have the same problems like louis, i also post my Attachments and i am a foreigner so = Bad english ^^

I found at my systems that there it says that i have only 1 GB RAM but i have 4 so i think there is my problem

View attachment DxDiag.txt
View attachment settings.txt

my settings won't get to the attachments because there was an error so i post it here

[systemsettings.cpp:200]: System memory: 0MB
[systemsettings.cpp:202]: CPU speed: 2833MHz
[systemsettings.cpp:209]: Number of processors: 4
[systemsettings.cpp:220]: CPU type: x86
[systemsettings.cpp:252]: OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Build: 6002
[gfx_settings.cpp:22]: Loading settings for adapter 0, fullscreen=1, multisample=15
[gfx_settings.cpp:50]: Graphic Adapters:
[gfx_settings.cpp:55]: 0: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
[gfx_settings.cpp:69]: Using Adapter [0] to check for multi-sampling support:
[gfx_settings.cpp:80]: 2 samples supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:80]: 4 samples supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:80]: 8 samples supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:95]: Using Adapter [0]:
[gfx_settings.cpp:101]: Succeeded to create a device [D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING].
[gfx_settings.cpp:145]: Graphics device: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
[gfx_settings.cpp:146]: Graphics driver: aticfx32.dll
[gfx_settings.cpp:147]: Driver version: 1129
[gfx_settings.cpp:162]:


Dumping all gfx info:
DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71EE2-D700-11CF-5E70-6D02BEC2C535}
VendorId: 4098
DeviceId: 37952
SubSysId: 577181575
Revision: 0
DriverVersion.HighPart: 524305
DriverVersion.LowPart: 656489


[gfx_settings.cpp:182]: Instancing supported.
[gfx_settings.cpp:197]: Video memory amount: 2808MB
[gfx_settings.cpp:198]: MaxSimultaneousTextures: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:199]: MaxVertexBlendMatrices: 4
[gfx_settings.cpp:200]: MaxVertexBlendMatrixIndex: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:201]: MaxSimultaneousTextures: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:202]: MaxTextureBlendStages: 8
[gfx_settings.cpp:203]: Support for Anisotropic filtering found.
[gfx_settings.cpp:206]: Max Anisotropic filtering: 16
[gfx_settings.cpp:207]: Anisotropic filtering set to: 0
[gfx_settings.cpp:211]: Vertex Shader version: 3.0
[gfx_settings.cpp:216]: Pixel Shader version: 3.0
[main.cpp:499]: CK2 Version Nov 15 2012 : 09:34:09
[main.cpp:500]: Commandline:
[internationalizedtext.cpp:1236]: Create table
[internationalizedtext.cpp:1238]: Create text database
[main.cpp:527]: Text database created
[main.cpp:545]: Creating application...
[main.cpp:578]: Initializing application...
[ck_application.cpp:564]: Initializing application...
[ck_application.cpp:568]: Done initializing application
[ck_application.cpp:576]: Loading cursor...
[ck_application.cpp:626]: Done loading cursor
[ck_application.cpp:629]: Initializing sound...

Maybe you can find something out

I also Tried all kind of stuff and nothing worked so i would appreciate it when you can solve it

 

[AndrewT]

I see your sound driver is almost 4 years old, can you check for a newer one? But if it really was a sound problem, you'd think disabling sound would allow the game to load. Can you swap out those speakers for more standard PC ones, as a test?