Post by Keith Heitmann on Nov 14, 2004 16:32:52 GMT -5
From the game's README.TXT file:
Alt-tab'ing in and out of the game can occassionally cause graphical glitches and/or instability on some systems.
Make sure you have a DirectX 9 compliant video card and sound card.
Make sure you have up to date drivers for video and sound cards. (Note: there is a issue with the latest November NVidia drivers and CotN. The readme.txt file suggests using the July 2004 drivers instead.
From the readme.txt:
The most recent sets of Nvidia drivers may cause graphical problems such as corrupted textures and invisible objects on some machines. The most recent suite of drivers which does -not- cause problems can be found at www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_45.23.html (for win2k/xp) or www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_45.23.html (for win98/ME).
Before you install the game cleaup and defrag your hard drive unless you have done so very recently.
If the game is dropping back to the desktop with or without warning messages, try changing all of the in-game settings for sound and video to off or minimums to see if that cures the problem.
In one reported case, the crash to desktops were traced back to a bad RAM chip.
If the game won't install or won't load disable your virus scanner and any other apps running in the background. If you have virtual or image drives running you will probably have to disable those as well, since SecuROM, the security software doesn't allow some of them to work.
Alt-tab'ing in and out of the game can occassionally cause graphical glitches and/or instability on some systems.
Make sure you have a DirectX 9 compliant video card and sound card.
Make sure you have up to date drivers for video and sound cards. (Note: there is a issue with the latest November NVidia drivers and CotN. The readme.txt file suggests using the July 2004 drivers instead.
From the readme.txt:
The most recent sets of Nvidia drivers may cause graphical problems such as corrupted textures and invisible objects on some machines. The most recent suite of drivers which does -not- cause problems can be found at www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_45.23.html (for win2k/xp) or www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_45.23.html (for win98/ME).
Before you install the game cleaup and defrag your hard drive unless you have done so very recently.
If the game is dropping back to the desktop with or without warning messages, try changing all of the in-game settings for sound and video to off or minimums to see if that cures the problem.
In one reported case, the crash to desktops were traced back to a bad RAM chip.
If the game won't install or won't load disable your virus scanner and any other apps running in the background. If you have virtual or image drives running you will probably have to disable those as well, since SecuROM, the security software doesn't allow some of them to work.
