updated to 1.21 and still crashing

[lordracula2003]

my game still crashes after updating to 1.21... the game actually crashes when the combat animations start... i tried to disable them in the preferences but they still start and crash my game... i'm still downloading the sound patch... please help me...

[Mr.Frag]

follow the directions for dxdiag and post your results.

[Califvol]

I am having the same problem. I have disabled the game animations and even the combat reports. The game still crashes, but its inconsistent and sometimes you can work around by re-loading.

I used to think it was a memory problem associated with animations and the submarine play, but the game just crashed during air combat despite all the bells (sound effects/music) and whistles (animations and combat reports) turned off. It is some form of memory issue per the error report I get when the game crashes.

[Califvol]

I thought I had turned off all the sound, but I realized I was still getting my mouse click on the screen. After I turned off 100% of all sounds on the preference menu the game ran fine with or without animations turned on. (For at least one turn that is, haven't done a second one yet.)

I am on Direct X version 9
and an IBM PC with Hyper-threading Tech
over 1 gig ram and video memory

Hope this helps.

[Mr.Frag]

Pull the 44k sound patch. It should resolve that problem.