cant play red alert 2

[madmike]

for some reason when i try to run red alert 2 the game will crash o the desktop as soon as it tries to load. Ive installed all updates. I'm thinking it might be my vid card, but i have the new nvidia drivers that came out just recently. Do you think it could be from OC'ing the cpu? The game runs on my other computer (P4 1.6, 512 ram, geforce 4 mx 440, audigy 2) just fine so i figured it was the graphics card or the OC'ing doing it. Or maybe the onboard sound... i dunno, any ideas?

[AsianBatman]

Well to start things off, try playing without the OC.

[minibubba]

Well to start things off, try playing without the OC.

that's what i would suggest first, or at least toning it down a bit

[madmike]

ok,

is it safe to bring it straight back down to 2.6 instead of incrementing it down? Also, when i go back up should i increment again or can i go right back to where it was?

[AsianBatman]

Since your cpu is probably stable at the current clock, i see no harm in leaping from 3.4 back to 2.6 then later back to 3.4. Because you already know your stable clock.

[madmike]

ok thanks, ill try that :thumb:

[madmike]

nope still wont play :evil:

[Wiggo]

OK have ya tried uninstallin' the game and then reinstallin' it plus did ya knock the o/c off ya video card? :?:

[madmike]

yup did all that, tried installing it with absolutely no OC in anything but still wont play. I sent them an email, im thinking this couldnt be that rare of a problem... we'll see, but thanks guys

[#Hashx#]

I've had some funky problems with redalert2 also, which is one of my all-time favorite games, anyways here's my suggestion on this matter.


1st try uninstalling the game again, but this time making sure that you THROUGHLY remove every enteryof redalert 2 in the regeistry( be carefull in there) and your c:\windows directroy. Sometime something will go amiss in the first instalation of the game and unexpected crashes to the desktop can happen.


2nd thing to try would be to type in this command ,"dxdiag", without the quotes, in Start/Run. Run the Direct 3d, directx, and apg acceleration tests.

If dxdiag reports any problems then try Reinstalling your current version of DirextX or better yet Updating to the lastest Verison, which would be Dx9.0b. Also if anything were to happen during this process you can go hereV

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download1066.html

and Wipe off every Direct version on your system and start anew. Direct Of course this is only under the assumption that this could be a Directx related problem.

You could try the second suggestion just for kicks as it wouldn't hurt anything.
8)

Also try running the game with nothing running in the backround

[madmike]

ok thanks a lot for your input #Hashx#.

Unfortunately though, i have tried all that :cry:

im completely stumped. Im still waiting on an e-mail back from them (EA) though.

[maximus7001]

I am thinking that your gfx card can't handle playing every game properly due to it not being a fx5950ultra as much as you would like it to be. For starters, the bios swap is just asking for trouble in the real world. 970mem seems to unrealistic for that card to operate properly possably causing repeated issues that you seem to be having.

[minibubba]

I am thinking that your gfx card can't handle playing every game properly due to it not being a fx5950ultra as much as you would like it to be. For starters, the bios swap is just asking for trouble in the real world. 970mem seems to unrealistic for that card to operate properly possably causing repeated issues that you seem to be having.

RA2 doesn't require that much to run properly.

[madmike]

yeah and i dont keep it at those settings all the time, just thats the highest ive gone and used in benchmarking. I was worried that maybe it was the actual card so i put in an old geforce2 that i found lying around the house and it did the same exact thing.

[#Hashx#]

Well then I guess its up to Ea then. I just hate it when the last option is tech support.