random freeze crash

[Sarganto]

I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before.
When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc.

I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago.
I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card.

Any ideas?

[khyberbill]

I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before.
When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc.

I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago.
I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card.

This happens to me now and then. I just mutter and re-start the turn.

[Sarganto]

It doesn't happen "now an then" for me, but more like every 2-3 hours. I could live with it, if it was once a week or every 50 turns or so. But it happens definitely too often.

[khyberbill]

It doesn't happen "now an then" for me, but more like every 2-3 hours. I could live with it, if it was once a week or every 50 turns or so. But it happens definitely too often.

Yes, and I can get to task manager. Your problem does seem much more severe. This happens to me rarely. But I usually run a turn in less than 30 minutes so that may be a factor too.

[Nomad]

Try renaming your SOUND folder to NOSOUND and see if that cures the problem You will not have any sounds but sounds and codexs have been problems since version 1.0 ( but not so much after about version 1.5 )

[rtrapasso]

Since it is happening now, but apparently didn't happen before, something has apparently changed with your system, maybe due to a Microsoft VISTA automatic upgrade (if you have those turned on) ... a couple of possible solutions spring to mind aside from the one already offered.

1) update all your drivers, esp. sound drivers/video board drivers and codecs.

2) If this doesn't work, consider a rollback of your system to an earlier restore point. Not sure how this works with VISTA (or if it is even possible).

[herwin]

ORIGINAL: Sarganto

I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before.
When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc.

I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago.
I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card.

Any ideas?

Sound driver problem.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: herwin

ORIGINAL: Sarganto

I started playing WitP again after some months and now I have a problem, I think I didn't have before.
When playing WitP, at some random point, my pc freezes. Nothing works anymore, not alt+tab, not the task-manager, nothing. The sound seems to be frozen in a loop, repeating the last sound over and over (or the last milliseconds of the music). Only thing I can do then is to press the power button and shut down my pc.

I have no idea why this happens and IIRC, WitP worked fine a few months ago.
I'm using Vista on my Dell Laptop, 2 Ghz Core2Duo with 2 GB RAM and a ATI X1300 graphics card.

Any ideas?

Sound driver problem.

Probably the most likely, although we had one fellow have a similar problem, and it turned out he (or, more likely Microsoft) had somehow loaded 38 or so copies of his codec... [X(]

[Rainer]

I recommend also to rename the folder VIDEO to NOVIDEO, just in case.
IF it is a driver or codec problem it makes sense to disable both.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Rainer

I recommend also to rename the folder VIDEO to NOVIDEO, just in case.
IF it is a driver or codec problem it makes sense to disable both.

Yep - see Nomad's post above.

EDIT: my recommendations above are in case the sound effects are desired... they are not necessary to play the game, but i usually get a kick out of them... [8D]

[Sarganto]

Yesterday, after writing the post and reading some other threads in the forum, I decided to try the windowed mode. Not related to my problem, just wanted to try playing a bit in a window.

But now it seems, I don't have the problem when playing in window mode. No crash in over 10h of playing. Seems like I have to stick to the window mode. But I have no idea, why everything works fine now. [&:]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Sarganto

Yesterday, after writing the post and reading some other threads in the forum, I decided to try the windowed mode. Not related to my problem, just wanted to try playing a bit in a window.

But now it seems, I don't have the problem when playing in window mode. No crash in over 10h of playing. Seems like I have to stick to the window mode. But I have no idea, why everything works fine now. [&:]

Out of curiosity, if you don't play in windowed mode, does the problem still occur? [&:]

[Sarganto]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Sarganto

Yesterday, after writing the post and reading some other threads in the forum, I decided to try the windowed mode. Not related to my problem, just wanted to try playing a bit in a window.

But now it seems, I don't have the problem when playing in window mode. No crash in over 10h of playing. Seems like I have to stick to the window mode. But I have no idea, why everything works fine now. [&:]

Out of curiosity, if you don't play in windowed mode, does the problem still occur? [&:]

I guess so. I didn't change anything, but add a "-w" to the shortcut and now everything runs smoothly. Smoothly and windowed

[Sarganto]

Now I had the first crash of WitP since changing into window-mode.

Problemsignatur:
  Problemereignisname:    AppHangB1
  Anwendungsname:    War In The Pacific.exe
  Anwendungsversion:    1.8.0.0
  Anwendungszeitstempel:    443edb55
  Absturzsignatur:    c2af
  Absturztyp:    2048
  Betriebsystemversion:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
  Gebietsschema-ID:    1031
  Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 1:    26cb5f11fbbcc7f1e7aa22f14df60f95
  Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 2:    1704
  Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 3:    b29cfa772d5f280e2d9e3e98fd30b488
  Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 4:    c2af
  Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 5:    26cb5f11fbbcc7f1e7aa22f14df60f95
  Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 6:    1704
  Zusätzliche Absturzsignatur 7:    b29cfa772d5f280e2d9e3e98fd30b488

Don't know if that's related to the other problem. But only WitP crashed, just closed and restarted it.

[Nomad]

Have you tried renaming your sound folder yet? Sounds and codexs are the biggest cause of crashes for WitP.