Graphic freez hard reboot!

[fisklisa]

Since there doenst seem to be any answers anywhere on this forum i will try again.. my dxdiag file is included.

Problem is the game works perfectly a couple of minutes. Then BAM! it freezes, then a graphical error which gives me apx. 3secs to hit ctrlaltdel, to hopefully avoid the hard reboot. Sound will continue till the track is out then tehres just the sfx. It doesnt seem to help patching, tried both .65 and .7 both will make my game start? It also dont seem to matter where in the game im at.. i can be in a fight, talking to npc or in the world area.

I know the dxdiag says i dont have the latest drivers right now. but i have tried the last stable aswell. Only tried this one because someone on the forums said they worked for him.

Please help, btw i have the atari version.
(since my txt is bigger then the forum allows, please change the .zip to .txt ...)

[fisklisa]

hmm lots of people checking, so i guess lots have the same problem...
but i have been looking around ALOT lately and found out that gamersgate patch 1.7 is a couple of mbs bigger then the others? why is that?

still need help so if anyone know anything.. please help out

[City Builder]

I have same issue, or maybe very similar. I have patched the game to the 1.6.5 patch for the Atari published game. The game starts, and I talk to the first guy who gives me the task of going to kill the dragon.

I enter room with dragon and graphics get screwed up, I get flashing white large blocks about 4" in size all over screen although I can still see the game map, they are flashing very fast. This eventually stops and I enter battle with the dragon, everything is fine at this point, but about half way through battle, the grid pattern on the floor starts flashing, but game continues on. Then shortly after the game causes a hard lock where I have to press the power button on my computer to power down since the three finger salute won't get me to task manager, nothing will, Kings Bounty has hard locked my computer once again.

We have totally different computers fisklisa, I have Vista 64 bit and you have XP 32bit I gather from seeing your dxdiag file. The only thing similar is that we both have Nvidia 8800 cards, except you have the GT and I have the GTS.

My dxdiag.txt will be attached in case (heaven forbid) someone from 1c support were to actually read these forums and know the answer.

If I bypass the opening tests and go straight into the map (at least with the demo) I have not gotten locked up yet, I just bought the full version of the game yesterday, so I'll have to try that with the full version to see if it's the same as it was with the demo, however in the demo I didn't have those flashing white blocks on my screen and neither did I have the floor grid flashing either in any battles I participated in, so maybe the patch is the cause of that.

My Dxdiag.zip is real zip file since silly forums only allow 19.2kb max size text files, silly forum, 19.2kb is for kids

[fisklisa]

maan.. this is some bs.. how can this game become best of the year? seriously? it doesnt even work.. and the support is not even worth mention. Thats why im here on the forums looking for answeres since the damn developers dont give a damn crap hopefully my fellow gamers will?

its rreally sad, the game seems very nice.

COME ON!! please help!.

[aghiuta]

I don't know if this helps but try setting all graphic opions to minimum, disable shadows/antialiasing etc. Disable all sounds.
If after this it works ok start enabling them one by one until you find the problem one.
The game is very enjoyable even with minimum graphics and no sounds (I play it like that becausemy computer is a bit old).

[fisklisa]

aye, thanks for responding..
i have already tried to run it with minimal settings and no sound.. but with no luck.. still freezes and crashes..