PC rebooting/crashing

[unmerged(101907)]

Hi everyone,
I'm also having the CTD and rebooting problem. What is amazing is that I have 2 PCs and get the same problems. Old PC has XP, AMD chipset with NVidia 6600 card. The game tries to load but will reboot PC before getting to the main menu of the game.
On my new PC XP, Intel dual core with Nvdia card I can get to the main menu but as soon as I click on an option the PC will either CTD or reboot. Sometimes I also get an exception handling error.
Normally I would suspect overheating but both PCs are running fine with other games. I've downloaded patches and drivers.
I suspect the problem is related to the Nvidia cards. Is there a known issue with Nvidia cards and XP?

 

[AndrewT]

No, we have many people running them just fine - after all maybe half the gaming population use nVidia and half ATI, there's not much else out there.

Let's pick on one of the machines are diagnose it down, say, the newer one. You're right, overheating does sound like a possibility here, and Paradox games do drive the video card harder (and so to higher temps) than other games. Google for SPEEDFAN and install it to monitor system and video temps.

If that doesn't show up anything, let's see some info. Post your settings.txt and system.log files, and run DXDIAG and post the first page of dxdiag.txt here.

 

[unmerged(101907)]

Thanks Andrew. I'm at work at the moment and will check temperature etc. tonight.

Regards.

 

[unmerged(101907)]

Sorry to take so long to reply but RL has kepy me busy. I downloaded Speedfan and it appears that my CPu and Video card are running at around 75-80 degrees C. A bit of investigating has told me that anything over 50 degrees is too hot, so overheating appears to be the problem.
On a side note I upgraded my motherboard. There was an INF file that improves the CPUs ability to interact with the PCI. The Nvidia is CPI. I thought that installing this file had solved the problem as I can now get to the main menu of the game. But shortly after playing the PC reboots which would suggest overheating.
Not much can be done I suppose. I will just have to play EU3. That's OK. EU3 seems to run fine.
Thanks for your advice and help. Regards.

 

[AndrewT]

I really wouldn't give up; that kind of temp can physically damage your machine. There must be something wrong with the cooling - the fan is broken, the vent is blocked by dust or stuff on your desk like books, etc. If it's a laptop don't have it flat on the desk but off it so air can get to both sides. Maybe set up a desk fan to blow directly into the vents in the PCs (check for dust first!).

 

[unmerged(101907)]

Thanks for the advice Andrew. I ended up buying a more powerful CPU fan and this seems to have worked well. The temperature is down in the 50s and Rome is running fine.
Glad I bought Rome...or would not have known about the heating problem, until too late perhaps...lol.

Thanks again for the advice...