Rome start-up

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When I run the game, starting right away from the loading screens, the game screen is bigger than my monitor screen, i.e., it's all expanded -- instead of the text being "Loading whatever," all I see is "Loadin" and it gets cut off.

The buttons aren't where they're supposed to be once the game loads. I can click on "Options," say, if I move the cursor a few inches to the left of the actual button. It's nothing I can fix by adjusting any monitor settings, and changing the game resolution doesn't work. I'm running XP.

 

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I updated my video driver, and that fixed the screen issue --- and now I can play for about an hour, and then the game crashes. repeatedly. I looked through the other support thread, and didn't have any luck with those suggestions.

 

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and my dxdiag

View attachment DxDiag.txt

 

[AndrewT]

Have you applied the 1.3 patch? If not try that.

Also post your Rome/settings.txt and Rome/logs/system.log files. Note that if you use Vista and have installed the game in the suggested folder c:\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Rome\, the active versions of these last two files will have been redirected by Vista to a non-system directory, like c:\users\[name]\appdata\local\virtualstore\Program Files\Paradox Interactive\Rome\. You may have to search your C: drive for them.

 

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Settings and Log

I installed the 1.3 patch right after installing the game. It's still been crashing, and when it runs, it runs verrry slowly. Here are the settings and log -- the log won't upload for some reason, so I'll paste it.

Thank you!

Kernel Release[systemsettings.cpp:147]: System memory: 512MB
Kernel Release[systemsettings.cpp:149]: CPU speed: 2793MHz
Kernel Release[systemsettings.cpp:156]: Number of processors: 2
Kernel Release[systemsettings.cpp:169]: CPU type: x86
Kernel Release[systemsettings.cpp:201]: OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Build: 2600
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:107]: Graphic Adapters:
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:112]: 0: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:129]: Checking for multi-sampling support:
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:140]: 2 samples supported.
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:140]: 4 samples supported.
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:155]: Using Adapter [0]:
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:161]: Succeeded to create a device [D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING].
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:203]: Graphics device: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:204]: Graphics driver: nv4_disp.dll
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:209]: Driver version: 7519
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:226]:


Dumping all gfx info:
DeviceIdentifier: {D7B71E3E-4062-11CF-AC6E-128000C2CB35}
VendorId: 4318
DeviceId: 802
SubSysId: -1608970173
Revision: 161
DriverVersion.HighPart: 393230
DriverVersion.LowPart: 728415


Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:294]: Video memory amount: 128MB
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:297]: Support for T&L found.
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:300]: MaxSimultaneousTextures: 8
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:301]: MaxVertexBlendMatrices: 4
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:302]: MaxVertexBlendMatrixIndex: 0
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:304]: MaxSimultaneousTextures: 8
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:305]: MaxTextureBlendStages: 8
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:306]: Support for Anisotropic filtering found.
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:309]: Max Anisotropic filtering: 8
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:310]: Anisotropic filtering set to: 0
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:314]: Vertex Shader version: 2.0
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:319]: Pixel Shader version: 2.0
Kernel Release[main.cpp:208]: Rome Version Aug 11 2008 : 10:09:40
Kernel Release[internationalizedtext.cpp:1167]: Create table
Kernel Release[internationalizedtext.cpp:1169]: Create text database
Kernel Release[dxmusic.cpp:39]: Init Music
Kernel Release[dxmusic.cpp:45]: Graph done 0
Kernel Release[dxmusic.cpp:51]: Control done 0
Kernel Release[dxmusic.cpp:57]: Seeking done 0
Kernel Release[dxmusic.cpp:62]: Event done 0
Kernel Release[dxmusic.cpp:67]: Music done 0
Kernel Release[DirectSound.cpp:36]: Init DirectSound
Kernel Release[DirectSound.cpp:54]: Sound initialised with result 0
Kernel Release[DirectSound.cpp:64]: Coop Level Set. Result: 0
Kernel Release[DirectSound.cpp:86]: Sound Init Done
Kernel Release[graphics.cpp:129]: Direct3D Created
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 60
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 70
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 72
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 75
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 85
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 100
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 120
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 140
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 144
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 150
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 170
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1024 768 200
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 60
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 70
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 72
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Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 100
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 120
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 140
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 144
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 150
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 170
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1152 864 200
Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1280 768 60
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Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1280 768 72
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Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1280 768 150
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Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1280 960 150
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Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 1920 1440 60
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Kernel Release[graphicssettings.cpp:626]: Usable res: 2048 1536 75
Kernel Release[graphics.cpp:210]: Using multisampling: 2
Kernel Release[graphics.cpp:244]: Creating device with: D3DCREATE_HARDWARE_VERTEXPROCESSING
Fullscreen=yes
RefreshRate=60
Resolution=1024x768
Kernel Release[graphics.cpp:324]: Done creating device.

 

[AndrewT]

Your game is slow because you have about the slowest video card that will run the game, and only 512mb of system memory. But that shouldn't cause crashes.

Try editing your settings.txt and set

multisampling=0
renderTrees=no

and see if that helps.

You may also be having overheating problems, if it only crashes when you've been playing for a while. Please report your CPU and GPU temperatures from just before you start the game, then after 30 minutes of play. If you have no way of monitoring temperatures, Google for and install SPEEDFAN.