Cant Figure Out CTD Problem PLEASE HEELPP (Medieval II Total

[Nites2k]

just cant figure it out what the problem is but my game use to work fine but now all the sudden when i try to fight a battle the game always ends up CTD or even resetting my computer. I tried changing my settings and that doesnt work plus when i try to play a battle some of the units are black and/ or flicker, in addition sometimes the sound effects dont work. i get no error message after a CTD and my video card is working properly and even runs with no problems with other games except rainbow six las vegas. i believe that it is a driver conflict or something of that sort because everything worked fine before. Plus it seems now the it CTDs less and just crashes my computer and rests my comptuer.. Can anyone plus tell me why my game is messing up.

Here's My Stats
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, 2009 MHz
Radeon X1950 Pro
Barracuda 7200.8 SATA NCQ 300831 (280 GB)
1 Gig of Ram

[DMB2000uk]

I can't tell you why... But I can try and help you figure out a fix

Download driver cleaner pro, install it, uninstall your video drivers (via add remove progs on the control panel), boot into safe mode and run DCP.
Tell it to remove any ATI drivers that are on the list, and for fun, tell it to do nvidia too.

Reboot then install your graphics card drivers again. See if you get any more problems after this.

Dan

PS. I had to look up what CTD means, congrats on finding something I didn't know!

[Nites2k]

Thanks for the quick response i tried that and it did not solve the problem. Is it possible that it could have something to do with being that comp is dual core too?

Never taught a mod something new be4 coolio

[DMB2000uk]

OK, next you should check out the event viewer in the control panel (in the administrative tools 'folder').

Look under the system and application logs for warnings or errors If there is a recurring error message/warning in the logs, see if they have an error code or if they all say the same, post the error text on here.

Dan

[Nites2k]

These are the most commom reoccuring errors/warnings
1.Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1517
Date: 3/19/2008
Time: 3:36:45 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: OWNER-E83C1725A
Description:
Windows saved user OWNER-E83C1725A\owner registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

2. Event Type: Warning
Event Source: COM+ SOAP Services
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 3/19/2008
Time: 3:32:30 PM
User: N/A
Computer: OWNER-E83C1725A
Description:
Removal of an assembly from the global assembly cache failed: C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static\Interop.SHDocVw.DLL Interop.SHDocVw,Version=1.1.0.0

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

3.Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7031
Date: 3/17/2008
Time: 8:31:22 PM
User: N/A
Computer: OWNER-E83C1725A
Description:
The Windows CardSpace service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 120000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

These are just errors that have occured more then once but not as much as the others4. Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: atapi
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 3/9/2008
Time: 11:17:36 PM
User: N/A
Computer: OWNER-E83C1725A
Description:
The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 50 00 01 00 a4 00 ..P...¤.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........
0038: 40 00 00 0e 00 00 01 00 @.......
0040: ff 20 0a 12 4c 02 00 00 ÿ ..L...
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 c0 b3 f7 a8 cf 38 86 .À³÷¨Ï8†
0058: 00 00 00 00 08 90 37 86 .....7†
0060: 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 .... ...
0068: 28 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 (.... ..
0070: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

5.Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W32Time
Event Category: None
Event ID: 36
Date: 3/11/2008
Time: 12:12:09 AM
User: N/A
Computer: OWNER-E83C1725A
Description:
The time service has not been able to synchronize the system time for 49152 seconds because none of the time providers has been able to provide a usable time stamp. The system clock is unsynchronized.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

6.Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Tcpip
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4226
Date: 3/6/2008
Time: 3:24:16 AM
User: N/A
Computer: OWNER-E83C1725A
Description:
TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 54 00 ......T.
0008: 00 00 00 00 82 10 00 80 ....‚..€
0010: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

[DMB2000uk]

Try running ccleaner.

Then run the registry fixer in there. Back up your registry then let it fix all of the problems it finds.

Were these problems since a recent ATI driver update by any chance? If so have you tried going back to the driver that worked before?

Dan

[Nites2k]

sry for such a delayed reply. I will run the ccleaner and see if that does it i hope so. I think it has to do with a driver installed or some software, i suspect it has something to do with Gears of Wars because i know be4 that game was installed i had no problems with total war: kingdoms and plus when i installed GOW the game made me update my drivers in order to play that game. So i will try to roll back drivers and uninstall Gears or War, hoppfully that does it

[DMB2000uk]

Hopefully it one of those will fix it.

Dan