Fuzzy Wuzzy Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Do you have norton antivirus?Are you using the same computer when you last played it and it worked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Wuzzy Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 No Norton, and same computer differnt Video card. Originally had a Diamond Viper II. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Have you tried compatability mode?And thats all I can think of other than looking at other windows XP tech threads about emperor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Wuzzy Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 Here is my DxDiag. I have tried all the compatibility modes and it only makes the problem worse.[attachment archived by Gobalopper] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomic Mitten Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 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/settingsunclick the box automatically restart under the system failure box. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 Make sure you update you VIA chipset. There's a known issue between VIA chipsets and SB Live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Wuzzy Posted October 14, 2003 Author Share Posted October 14, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiRogueTrooper Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 Greetinz allcan 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyarlathotep Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 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)thnaksAs for re.booting disable this option in System/Advanced/Start up and recovery/settingsunclick the box automatically restart under the system failure box. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Wuzzy Posted October 15, 2003 Author Share Posted October 15, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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