thanks everyone for trying to help. Was expecting die hard fans to flame this thread instead. "it's not the game it's you!!!" lol . anyways, I just spent the time since my last post finding new drivers and attempting to update again. Still no luck, but to answer some of the questions on here.
my main computer is a macbook pro. with windows xp x64. 2.2ghz intel core 2 duo. 4 gigs of ram. nvidia 8600m gt. To laptop haters, this comp is fine. It can handle all the latest games. Has worked just fine.
Desktop is a amd athlon 64 3800+. 4 gigs of ram, nvidia 9500gt graphics card. windows xp x64. a8n32-sli asus mobo.
I do have a 32 bit version of windows xp, but id rather not have to install a whole new OS and lose my extra ram just to play this game. Ill just leave that option for another day. I'll probably end up updating to snow and windows 7 in the near future anyways.
No, my computer is not overheating. This game actually runs much cooler than most games I've played while it's up.
Tech support did reply since my last post. They suggested i try a different driver or change my in game resolution. It didn't help. the only driver options i have left i think are to find modded drivers somewhere or start trying drivers from a decade ago. I literally tried all the drivers from the 170-190 series nvidia drivers beta and whql already from the nvidia site and a few more from the laptop2go site.
It doesn't work on my desktop either.
I do not get that popular directx error BMRender/DirectX something. I did the very 1st time i ever ran this game, but after updating everything it no longer happens. the problem I have is that the game just simply crashes. I get a pop up that says, "sorry the game has crashed". It doesn't state the error.
It seems that graphics drivers are the main cause of these crashes, but what else could it be? i'm sorta running out of options in that area. I have the latest directx, physx installed. My audio is up to date but i have tried changing the driver a few times. my chipset has been updated as well. Also, I noticed playing around with the settings through the Nvidia control panel helped to prolong game time between crashes. If anyone has had crashes before but after changing a few settings they were fine, id really like to know the details. I read a few people disabling options such as AA and vsync which helped them, but that hasn't worked for me. I've also tried using 1 core, that increased game time, but still crashes. I could send a copy of dxdiag to anyone if they think it'll help.
To all those smarty pants. I'm no computer engineer and I shouldn't have to be one to get a computer game to run. So please don't fill this thread with comments about the infinite possibilities of game crashes.Especially if that's all you have to say... I'm not looking to engage in pointless theoretical technical battle with Confucius over here... If you have a possible solution or know a set up that works for you, or the causes of this game crash, that would be appreciated. This is a technical SUPPORT thread after all. Then maybe I could continue to troubleshoot this game.
Thanks again.
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