Crash To Desktop

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I am haveing an issue with the program crashing to desktop.  I have not been able to start a game.  It installed fine and I can launch the program.  Seems to work fine until you reach the point where it loads up after you pick you canadiate.  At the "whoever" VS. "whoever" screen it crashes every time.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top
I've had two crashes on one game. I can at least play the game, but even if you get to a game, it'll probably crash. I am running Vista Basic on a MacBook (Mac's run vista way better than my pc does haha). VERY frustrating. I even got a blue screen of death on Vista due to the game. Stardock games have always been stable (PM1, GC, GCII, etc). I'm sure these issues will be addressed though.
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top
Yeah, I'm having some major crashing issues myself... Hope it's some kind of bug that can be fixed by a patch or something :-\. I don't think it's my computer, as I have an Alienware and it should be able to handle this game...
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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top
The crashes are out of control. I've given up on playing the game. It has crashed 4 times now. Twice it has knocked my Mac completely out of Windows (blue screen about memory dump) and back to OS X. That's not good at all. I've noticed if I try to do a radio ad in TN with John Edwards about the economy it crashes. I'm really disappointed but have faith it will be fixed ASAP. How were these *major* crashes not found? Stardock has always been really good about releases.
Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top
mine is also crashing back to the desktop at the candidate vs candidate screen. not sure what is going on. i think my machine should run it: 3000+ AMD Sempron, 1.2GB RAM, EVGA 6600 series card w/ 128MB GDDR3 RAM, running Windows XP Home sp3. i wonder if we'll get any help on this?
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
vista home premium sp1 (32bit) , intel E2160, geforce 8800gts 512m , 2g ram.

crashes to desktop after 0-3 turns.

seems Im not alone in these issues... please issue patch/fix.



Reply #6 from PolMach Forums Top

Hey guys,

XP users: Can you download and run https://www.stardock.com/products/smartexception/ while playing the game? It should get data from where the crash is occuring, which you can send to me at scott@stardock.com.

Vista users: Since smart exception is XP only ATM, can you guys open the 'games\pm2008\debug.err' file and paste the contents here?  I'd like to see if that supplies any data from when the game dies.

Thanks for your help, everyone!

Reply #7 from PolMach Forums Top
Just crashed on my work laptop. Seems to work better on XP than Vista Basic I have on my MacBook at home.

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Reply #8 from PolMach Forums Top

Driver Date: 11/28/2005 18:12:08
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Airb: Can you update your drivers and see if the crashes continue? Seems like a small thing, but God only knows what DirectX is expecting and not receiving based on the date of those drivers ;)

Reply #9 from PolMach Forums Top
i emailed the smartexception files. all of my drivers are up-to-date as is directx. still not sure what is going on.
Reply #10 from PolMach Forums Top
BoogieBac,

Will do. This is my work laptop so I am not too familiar with it. Still crashes more often on my newly installed (and thus new drivers) Vista macbook at home.
Reply #11 from PolMach Forums Top

Airb - it's almost certainly due to your video drivers.

The game uses pixel shader 2 and older drivers don't support it.

Reply #12 from PolMach Forums Top
Airb330,

You may want to check to see if your Macbook is overheating as we have had overheating problems reported with users playing our other games on Macbooks using BootCamp. Overheating would definitely cause problems.

To avoid overheating, it will help if you're not playing on a soft surface like a bed or a couch where the laptop will sink down - fabric in general will trap the heat.
Reply #13 from PolMach Forums Top
Cari,

I don't think that is it. I bought the MacBook because my Acer was overheating so much with Vista! It's funny because Vista runs much better on my MacBook (of course it's newer too haha). I have Vista Basic so I am not wasting anything on that aero glass. Whenever a crash happens, I'll end up back in OSX, and my temperature reading is 57ish which is completely normal (even low for just using a game). I will definitely check tomorrow night though. I really hope I don't have overheating problems with another laptop, sheesh. I usually play with it on my lap and it's not hot, but I'll use my cooling pad next time too. Thanks for everyone looking into things.

PS Game seems to be running fine on my work laptop running XP now with newer drivers :)