Austerlitz Crashes - Help !!!

[Gordon Hazelton]

I have just purchased a new copy of this game. Installed it OK. Launch game, Game Menu Opens, press play game, Titles run OK, Campaign Series Screen (press next) Settings screen opens, Try to then run game (ie Launch tutorial or Go to battle) Music continues to play sreen goes black for a few minutes then crashes and returns me to the main menu.

My system is AMD Duron 750, 128MB RAM, Windows ME, NVidia RIVA TNT Model 64Pro 32MB Graphics card, Direct X 8, C Media Audio Direct Sound sound card

I ve been really looking forward to this game coming out and any help you can give me to get it working would be appreciated

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I have just downloaded the latest N Vidia driver V4.13.01.2181 and the same problem occurs
gordonhazelton <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

[Ross Moorhouse]

There is a patch for the game. It was released yesterday. Its fixes this crash problem. You will find it on this page

http://www.matrixgames.com/games/austerlitz/downloads.asp

[Gordon Hazelton]

I have installed the patch the the problem still occurs

Here is my spyboard.txt

can you help

Nbre Adap= 1
Driver NVDD32.DLL
Nom Carte NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
Affichage W=1024
Affichage H=768
Affichage F=23
Nbre Modes= 30
Modes[10]= 0
Modes[10]= 20
Modes[24]= 0
Modes[24]= 20
Evaluation= 18
Nbre Modes= 30
Modes[10]= 0
Modes[10]= 20
Modes[24]= 0
Modes[24]= 20
Evaluation= 18
AVIin
AVIout
DialogueOut
Tutorial
DLL Load
DLL Exe
Lecture Objets
Fin INIT
Adaptateur# 0
Device 0
Mode 24
Window= N
ZBuffer= O
DimW= 1024
DimH= 768
DimF= 22
InfoDevice HAL (sw vp): NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro
INIT Device
Fonte
Police
Texture1
Texture2
Texture3
Scene
Décors <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

[aleeper21]

Hi,
Austerlitz crashes. I need help. My hardware is as follows: pent4 1.5gz, geforce2 64mb grahics card, SB audigy gamer sound card and 512Ram.
i applied the patch..it still crashes. matrix advised me to reinstall and don't play Napoleon against the AI. I played the Allies and it STILL crashes and/or locks up. I haven't been able to play more than 2-3 minutes before the game crashes.
Am I doomed to wait until Matrix corrects the problem or is this going to be another game with great potential but terrible development(eg.napoleon 1813).
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Duke of Earl]

Hi Andy,

I notice that no one had answered yet, so I will try to help out if I can. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Here is a quote from JMM from yesterday:

Hi
Have you the last driver of your Grafic board?

Can you send SpyBoard.txt to tech@histwar.com.

JMM

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and here is another quote from Ross from yesterday:

This would be a text file that the game creates. Use the Windows "Search" to find this file. Write down this file's path.

That way you can find it again when you e-mail it to JMM as you will have to know the path to attach it to an e-mail.

HTH

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I would suggest that you send your SpyBoard text to JMM for review and analysis. It might help solve your problems quicker. <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Cordialement, Duke of Earl

[ January 05, 2002: Message edited by: Duke of Earl ]</p>

[aleeper21]

Thanks Duke of Earl for your help. I'll try to find the spyboard.txt file.
Andy