The conquerors keeps crashing

[Guest]

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Hi - I have been playing AOK TC for a couple of years and
it has always worked fine. I recently installed a new
graphics card (Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb) and upgraded
the memory to 516mb.

Ever since, the game crashes back to the desktop after
about 10 minutes. The music keeps playing, but according
to task manager, the game is not running.

My DX diag can't find any problems:

Time of this report: 4/29/2004, 18:17:51
Machine name: DOMINIC
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build
2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2.030422-1633)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: TimeComputers
System Model: 8366-8233
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, MMX,
3DNow, ~1.5GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 177MB used, 689MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 (4.09.0000.0900)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.0000.0900 32bit Unicode

------------
DxDiag Notes
------------
DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: The file ALCXWDM.SYS is not
digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested
by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You
may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware
manufacturer.
Music Tab: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
Network Tab: No problems found.

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.ageofkings (More info?)

Hi Rhws,

Your DX diagnostics did indeed find a problem. Here it is:
Sound Tab 1: The file ALCXWDM.SYS is not
digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested
by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You
may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware
manufacturer

Update your sound card drivers Rhws. 🙂

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"Rhws" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:60b401c42e0e$4f937460$a601280a@phx.gbl...
| Hi - I have been playing AOK TC for a couple of years and
| it has always worked fine. I recently installed a new
| graphics card (Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 128mb) and upgraded
| the memory to 516mb.
|
| Ever since, the game crashes back to the desktop after
| about 10 minutes. The music keeps playing, but according
| to task manager, the game is not running.
|
| My DX diag can't find any problems:
|
| Time of this report: 4/29/2004, 18:17:51
| Machine name: DOMINIC
| Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build
| 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2.030422-1633)
| Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
| System Manufacturer: TimeComputers
| System Model: 8366-8233
| BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
| Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, MMX,
| 3DNow, ~1.5GHz
| Memory: 512MB RAM
| Page File: 177MB used, 689MB available
| Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
| DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 (4.09.0000.0900)
| DX Setup Parameters: Not found
| DxDiag Version: 5.03.0000.0900 32bit Unicode
|
| ------------
| DxDiag Notes
| ------------
| DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.
| Display Tab 1: No problems found.
| Sound Tab 1: The file ALCXWDM.SYS is not
| digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested
| by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You
| may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware
| manufacturer.
| Music Tab: No problems found.
| Input Tab: No problems found.
| Network Tab: No problems found.

 

[Daniel]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.ageofkings (More info?)

It sounds like a driver problem. Go to your parts
companies websites (huray for google.com) and get the
latest drivers.

Also, no offence to anyone, but if we waited for
Microsoft to "certify" the drivers, we'd all be on 286s
with onboard ATIs and 1kb of ram. I don't know how
the "certfication" thing works, but you have to mash past
the certify thingy for everything nowadays.

Just don't be too stirred if Microsoft hasn't "certified"
the driver, even if it came out 20 years ago...