Emperor, XP Pro - Kick out / reboot

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

Currently Athlon Thunderbird 1.3GHz, 256Mb RAM, Radeon 9000 Pro 128Mb with Windows XP Pro with SP1a. I desided to start playing Emperor again and now the game will play for a while and then either will kick me out or will reboot my computer.

Any suggestions?

I will attach my diag when I get home this evening.

[Andrew]

Do you have norton antivirus?

Are you using the same computer when you last played it and it worked?

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

No Norton, and same computer differnt Video card. Originally had a Diamond Viper II.

[Andrew]

Have you tried compatability mode?

And thats all I can think of other than looking at other windows XP tech threads about emperor.

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

Here is my DxDiag. I have tried all the compatibility modes and it only makes the problem worse.[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[Atomic Mitten]

Windows XP needs at least 512 Mb Ram to work properly.

Also increase your page file to 999Mb.Max size.

As for re.booting disable this option in System/Advanced/Start up and recovery/settings

unclick the box automatically restart under the system failure box. :)

[Nyarlathotep]

Make sure you update you VIA chipset. There's a known issue between VIA chipsets and SB Live.

[Andrew]

Windows XP needs at least 512 Mb Ram to work properly.

Also increase your page file to 999Mb.Max size.

True, but he has 128 mb ram video card. :O (which should make up for it somewhat if he has windows visual settings turned to low.)

My page file is 768-1536.

Is it still a good thing to put the page file to one number?

It was a good thing on older computers, but not sure if it is on newer computers.

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

Thanks for the hint on the VIA Chipset update. I haden't thought about doing that since I never install the VIA stuff when I build a system. Never made a difference till now. At this point it seams to have fixed both issues.

[KiwiRogueTrooper]

Greetinz all

can you please tell me the update you did? ive got the same prob and want to fix it ( im really sick of the reboots lol)

thnaks

[Nyarlathotep]

can you please tell me the update you did? ive got the same prob and want to fix it ( im really sick of the reboots lol)

thnaks

As for re.booting disable this option in System/Advanced/Start up and recovery/settings

unclick the box automatically restart under the system failure box. :)

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

This did not work,"disable this option in System/Advanced/Start up and recovery/settings unclick the box automatically restart under the system failure box." Actually it kept filling up my event log with garbage entries. I went to the motherboard manufacture's website and downloaded the latest VIA chipset Service Pack. The version that IWill had was V4.38. This solved all my problems. I can now run Emperor at the highest graphics settings with no problem. After reading what the patch does I found that the problem wasn't so much the issue with the SBLive 5.1 but with the AGP port. The patch corrects a clock issue.