Railroads

Hello
I am writing about the Railroads game I can play for around half an hour
then a get a black screen with a window saying Apcrash then it goes to the
desktop. I run a P4 D 3.4, Vista Premium, 2gb Ram, HIS ATI Radeon 1650Pro
AGP Video Card, and have used a Nvidia Palit 6800GS AGP Card in the past and
the same thing happens. I have installed the 110 patch and tried the game
without it and it still crashes. I have tried emailing Firaxis about it but
no reply. SHould I wait for another patch or is there a fix I can use that
someone knows about?
Thanks Shawn

You might check the event viewer (search Windows for it and it comes
up). Find out what app is causing it and see if it is the program that
crashed, or a device driver. You might also check for heat issues.

--
Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com


Shawn Malligan wrote:
> Hello
> I am writing about the Railroads game I can play for around half an hour
> then a get a black screen with a window saying Apcrash then it goes to
> the desktop. I run a P4 D 3.4, Vista Premium, 2gb Ram, HIS ATI Radeon
> 1650Pro AGP Video Card, and have used a Nvidia Palit 6800GS AGP Card in
> the past and the same thing happens. I have installed the 110 patch and
> tried the game without it and it still crashes. I have tried emailing
> Firaxis about it but no reply. SHould I wait for another patch or is
> there a fix I can use that someone knows about?
> Thanks Shawn

I have not tried railroads yet in vista but will soon. I have vista premium
64bit, I hope I don't have problems with it.

"Shawn Malligan" wrote:

> Hello
> I am writing about the Railroads game I can play for around half an hour
> then a get a black screen with a window saying Apcrash then it goes to the
> desktop. I run a P4 D 3.4, Vista Premium, 2gb Ram, HIS ATI Radeon 1650Pro
> AGP Video Card, and have used a Nvidia Palit 6800GS AGP Card in the past and
> the same thing happens. I have installed the 110 patch and tried the game
> without it and it still crashes. I have tried emailing Firaxis about it but
> no reply. SHould I wait for another patch or is there a fix I can use that
> someone knows about?
> Thanks Shawn
>

I get the same thing. It crashes after about a half-hour. Sometimes even
after 5 mins. I've tired compatalibity mode, "run as admin" mode, beta nVidia
drivers, etc. Nothing seems to help. I contacted Take2 support and they said
"there is no ETA on the patch yet to fix this, but the update might come from
MS, so keep checking Windows Update" I'll keep tweaking some things in the
mean time to see if i can get it running better.

"Shawn Malligan" wrote:

> Hello
> I am writing about the Railroads game I can play for around half an hour
> then a get a black screen with a window saying Apcrash then it goes to the
> desktop. I run a P4 D 3.4, Vista Premium, 2gb Ram, HIS ATI Radeon 1650Pro
> AGP Video Card, and have used a Nvidia Palit 6800GS AGP Card in the past and
> the same thing happens. I have installed the 110 patch and tried the game
> without it and it still crashes. I have tried emailing Firaxis about it but
> no reply. SHould I wait for another patch or is there a fix I can use that
> someone knows about?
> Thanks Shawn
>

Very bizzard that this simple change cant b done in a patch. I heard else where on the net ppl saying 2k/Fraxis replied to mails that they dont plan to make it compatible with Vista.

Needless to say found this very useful link, that sorted it out for me on Vista x64 with 4Gb of RAM. Vista games optimising - nV News Forums. The deatails posted r for a different game but methodology is the same, so use the railroad.exe file.