Hey guys, Need some help. I've got Medieval II Total War installed on my laptop (2 Ghz processor, 1gb ram, Ati Radeon Mobility X1300 graphics card) and the game runs perfectly smooth for 5-10 mins and then the screen simply goes black and there is no response from the laptop. You can do any Alt + Tab or Alt + F4 to change screen or close anything, just totally unresponsive, even when I press the shutdown button it does nothing (except when i hold it down for 5 secs for forced shutdown). It happens 5-10 mins into gameplay always, and the strange thing is the game works so smooth before that. Also once the black screen comes, the game music continues to play in the background which is weird. Anyway I could really use some help here as I have no clue whats going on! Extra Info: I've already patched the game with v1.2 and v1.3 so it's probably not a game problem, more a PC one...the question is what? Thanks in advance.
I could get SP3, but it screws up my wireless internet connection and the game is supposed to be fine with SP2 anyway. As for Video Ram, if it is bad video ram, how do I fix it short of buying a new graphics card... My other games have worked fine in the past, albeit I have to run most new ones on low settings as my graphics card is not brilliant. Assassins Creed itself for the first few levels works fine and the graphics are normal, its only after a certain point that everything looks as it does in that picture.
I tried patching as you suggested, still same problem. I have a ATI Radeon Mobility X1300 graphics card, its a little old but it supports Shaders 3.0. Surely this game should be able to run on XP with DirectX 9... Any other suggestions as to why this may be, I was thinking bad copy but I'm not so sure as it's happened with two seperate copies of the game.
Hey guys, I recently installed Assassins Creed on my pc (Windows XP SP2) and a few levels into the game the map on which I was playing and all further maps for that matter were distorted (See url for a picture) http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7528/assassinscreedscrewed.png At first I thought it was my graphics drivers so I updated those but no change, I found it unlikely considering the game appeared fine before on previous levels and only after a certain point would it appear like this. I also find it very strange that elements of the screen appear to be fine (e.g. the image of the compass or the health bar in the top left) but the rest of the game appears as shown. My second thought was that the game files were corrupted at which point I reinstalled the game and the same occurred at the same point in the game. I even tried installing a friend's copy of the game and the same occurs. When installing the game the installation process checks that your system is suitable for the game and everything is supposedly ok. I've also run directx diagnosis and that's fine too. At this point I'm looking at the problem and not seeing any issues with my graphics card and it is unlikely that 2 seperate copies of the game are corrupted in exactly the same way. All in all I've run out of ideas. Help! Thanks.
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