CTD Survey - Please share experiences GOOD or BAD

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There seems to be widely different experiences with regards to Crashes to Desaktop (CTDs). In order to inquire as to whether certain operating systems or platforms might be more or less prone to experience problems, let's see what experiences different people are having. If you have a moment, please answer the following questions. If you do not know the answers to all of the questions, please fill out as much as you do know. And I cannot stress enough that it is VERY important that we get ffedback from people who are NOT experiences problems as well as from those who are.

1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?

2. What Operating System are you running?

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

5. What video card do you use?

6. What sound card?

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

Thanks to all who participate.

 

[unmerged(3999)]

I CTD very, very infrequently - every 20 hours of gameplay or so. This is far better than EU2's performance on the same (fairly low-end) machine.

Windows ME
DirectX... 8, I think
Celeron 650 mhz (laptop)
video/sound cards - whatever was installed, I haven't upgraded them. Not very good ones.
128 mb

 

[unmerged(2634)]

1> Twice in single player since I bought the game on release day. I get them maybe once or twice in a 4 hr session of multiplayer, however.

2> Win XP

3> 8.1

4> Intel P3 (600MHz)

5> GeForce 2 GTS

6> Sound Blaster Live! value

7> 512MB

You may want to consider the chipset on the mother board as well, as they've been known to cause trouble, especially on AMD rigs... Mine is an Intel 440BX I think.
All in all my system is just about ready for retirement.

[edited for MP experiences]

 

[unmerged(13574)]

I have never experienced CTD in 1.00, 1.01 or 1.02. I'm very pleased about this.

 

[unmerged(11763)]

OK, now to answer my own questions...

1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?

I have never experienced an unexpected CTD (they always came from known bugs). Overall I would say that the game has been very stable for me.

2. What Operating System are you running?

Windows XP (w/ SP1)

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

DX 8.1 (run DXDIAG to find this)

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

P4 2.5GHz

5. What video card do you use?

G-Force 4 Ti 4600

6. What sound card?

On chip SiS 651/962L

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

1 Gig (1024 MB)

 

[Crerar]

1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?
-Maybe three times since I bought the game over a month ago. No problems finishing a game with monthly autosave. I learned from EU

2. What Operating System are you running?
-WinME

3. What version of Direct X are you running?
-8.1

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?
-P3 1.1ghz

5. What video card do you use?
-Geforce 4 something or other

6. What sound card?
-SoundBlaster Audigy

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?
-256 (not nearly enough)

Thanks to all who participate.
-You're welcome.

 

[egross]

With v1.00 I crashed every 45 minutes or so. Now, with v1.2, crashes are very rare, and usually related to known bugs -- probably only once every 15 to 20 hours of gametime. No problem finishing a game.

2. What Operating System are you running?

Windows 95

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

10

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

Pentium II 450 mghz

5. What video card do you use?

Winsock Titanium

6. What sound card?

Uh . . . gosh, if I remember correctly,

Viper AWE 64 ?

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

128 meg RAM

As you can see, I'm running at the low end of processing power with an old sound card and operating system. The game is very stable in it's current iteration, much more so than EU/EU2 was at this stage.

 

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1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?

1-3 since I have HoI(week following release).I play about 4-6hours a day.

2. What Operating System are you running?

Xp

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

Dx9

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

Athlon 800

5. What video card do you use?

GeForce4200TI 64meg

6. What sound card?

Generic soundblaster

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

256

 

[SideshowBob]

1. About once every 10 hours of play, I have no problems finishing a game. CTD's normally happen with Paras or rearranging fleets. The rearranging fleet one seems better in 1.02 so I have very few CTD these days. I know Para's cause problems so I always save before I use them, and rarely use them anyway.

2. Windows XP

3. Direct X 8.1

4. P4 2.53 Ghz

5. NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420

6. Avance AC97 Audio

7. 512 DDR

 

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1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?

I have never experienced CTDs under 1.02, but the game has frozen on me ~3 times after several hours of play (~4 hours) .

2. What Operating System are you running?

Windows ME

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

DirectX 8

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

AMD Duron 850Mhz

5. What video card do you use?

S3 ProSavage

6. What sound card?

Sound MAX Integrated Digital Audio

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

128 MB

 

[swilhelm73]

1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?

About once every four hours of game play

2. What Operating System are you running?

Win XP

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

version 8.1 (4.08.08.010810)

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

P4, 2.53 GHz

5. What video card do you use?

NVIDIA Geforce4 MX 420

6. What sound card?

Avance AC97 Audio

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

512 MB

 

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1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?

CTD very infrequently. Don't have a problem so far finishing a game.

2. What Operating System are you running?

Windows 98

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

Direct X 8.1

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

AMD

5. What video card do you use?

GeForce 3 (don't recall the brand, one of the smaller one)

6. What sound card?

Sound Blaster Live

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

384 Mb

 

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Thus far I see no real trends of specific configurations leading to trouble and it appears that people having significant problems are far outnumbered by people who find the game to be generally stable. I cannot say that I find those conclusions to be surprising, but it is never-the-less interesting.

 

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Not too many, and no real patterns. Mostly I can play on and on with no problems. The CTDs I vividly remember happened in the following circumstances (all SP):

1) Trying to dive or tac bomb Kolding in Denmark

2) Running hands off games to watch weather, sudden CTD in late 1936. Twice.

Win XP

DirectX 9

P4 1.6

GE Force 3

Turtle Beach/Santa Cruz

512 MB

 

[Josephus I]

I've had only two ctds that I remember and that was early on--the annex puppet bug and placing fleet in landlock territory...I've played almost constantly since mid-December.

Windows XP

8.1

Amd Athlon 1600+

Nvidia GeForce2

Not sure about the sound card...

256MB Ram

 

[unmerged(13933)]

1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?
1-2 times a day. I disable virus scanners and other background programs. Usually just have to reload autosave.

2. What Operating System are you running?
XP

3. What version of Direct X are you running?
8.1

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?
Athlon XP 1600+

5. What video card do you use?
G-force Ti 200

6. What sound card?
Aydigy player

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?
512MB

Thanks to all who participate.
No problem

 

[jdrou]

1. One MP CTD in a total of 20-30 hours playing. No SP CTDs except as a result of errors when editing savegames. EDIT: and known CTDs related to upgrading military controlled allied units.

2. OS: Windows 98SE (on IBM Thinkpad 600E).

3. DX 8.1

4. CPU: Intel mobile P2-300(PE)

5. Video: NeoMagic 256AV (a.k.a. NM2200) w/2.5MB

6. Sound: Crystal CS4239 chip

7. 416MB RAM

Other programs running in background:
DirectCD v5.2

 

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by jchastain
1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?

Depends on which version I'm running.
1.02, rather seldom. I once played an MP game where it only CTDed twice (both times when I invaded Austria), and other than that, the game was fine. I've had problems with other games though...

2. What Operating System are you running?

XP.

3. What version of Direct X are you running?

8.1.

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?

Pentium 4 1.6 gHz.

5. What video card do you use?

ATi Radeon 8000.

6. What sound card?

Beats me.

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?

256.

Thanks to all who participate.

My pleasure.

 

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Rare SP but MP is a nightmare, have been unable to finish a game on my LAN.Latest 1 is bad because the save game wont reload so the game we were playing is Kaput... and it was just getting tense too

2. win XP

3. Dx 8.1

4.Intell P4 1.7

5.TnT Riva 32m

6. SB Live

7 448 meg

 

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cool game

1. How frequently do you experience a CTD? Do you have problems finishing a game?
----Only rarely - say once every 6 hrs...

2. What Operating System are you running?
----Windows 98 (hey - I'm a poor student)

3. What version of Direct X are you running?
----8.1

4. What brand CPU is in your computer?
----Dell

5. What video card do you use?
----16MB Voodoo

6. What sound card?
----SB Live

7. How much memory is installed in your computer?
----300+MB

I have a very low end machine (P3 450 MHz) that I have added extra RAM to and I have very few problems. It's all about turning off all the extra crap windows has running in the background . The only reason I maintain a PC at all is for the wonderful games such as this. Viva Macintosh!!!!