Call To Power locks up when exiting game?

[Grandpa Troll]

A new problem has started in past week.

First off I have WIN2000XP Professional

512 RAM
1.5 Gig Processor
80 GIG HD
64 BIT Graphics Card


No probelms lately except this:

I am in game, either I quit or start new, game freezes up where I am at and cant do anything, so I need to hit "CTRL-ALT-DEL" several times until a task manager pops up, which shows CTP not responding and at bottom CPU resources are at 100%.

Any suggestions?, from what i have experienced WIN2000xp will sometimes get reset on its settings.

Anyone have any suggestions on where to start?

I am having no other problems with any other games or applications freezing up and I play Battlefield 1942 which uses a whole lot more resources than CTP does.

I play AOEII The Conquerors and all is fine. I play Delta Force II Land Warrior or one of the Rogue Spear series and all is fine too??
Just this freezes up when I try to exit, I am fine as long as I continue to play, many games for 4-5 hours straight or as little as 1 hour.

~Sigh~

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[J Bytheway]

Very strange - I don't suppose you can think of anything you changed which might have caused this problem?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
Very strange - I don't suppose you can think of anything you changed which might have caused this problem?

Nope..in fact I completey reinstalled the game..still the same.
I also defragged and still the same.

Odd..very Odd!!


Peace

Grandpa Troll

[J Bytheway]

You might try disabling any programs which are running in the background (especially virus checkers).

[blackice]

Just to make things clear win2000mexp is winxp, win2000, win2k and or winxp are two different operating systems.

Have you changed you graphics settings in any way?
Did you add or replace you dx?
Before you reinstalled CTP did you add any programs?
When you hit control- alt etc what is running?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by blackice
Just to make things clear win2000mexp is winxp, win2000, win2k and or winxp are two different operating systems.

Have you changed you graphics settings in any way?
Did you add or replace you dx?
Before you reinstalled CTP did you add any programs?
When you hit control- alt etc what is running?

I have win2000XP

No Graphics Changes

No changes or replacement of DX

No add programs before or after reinstall of CTP

When I hit ctrl-alt-del I get ctp running and my fax modem.

Same as before, except now it does this, hangs up.

~sigh~


Grandpa Troll

[blackice]

You can not have win2000xp as there is no such thing, winxp is a combination of me, 98se,win2000 using if you are the nt kernal and an ntfs file system.

I would check your graphics settings, but most important if you have winxp did you make the game compatable with 98se, if so undo that, if not try that.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by blackice
You can not have win2000xp as there is no such thing, winxp is a combination of me, 98se,win2000 using if you are the nt kernal and an ntfs file system.

I would check your graphics settings, but most important if you have winxp did you make the game compatable with 98se, if so undo that, if not try that.

Ya know, your a pretty smart fella Pete!!

I unchecked the win98 compatibility and it dont hang up!!
Thanks much and yes...again..your correct

I have winxp....

Thanks for the help!!

Peace

Grandpa Troll

[blackice]

No problem It happened to me too. Interesting to note here that this little excersise in futility by you and me and countless others, shows that in reality CTP is xp compliant.

That is what had lead me to believe that the servers are not compliant, with regards to our other xp problem.

Trial and error is a life saver let alone a compass of life, let alone the basics of compromise, let alone the reason we have hammers designed for computer repairs.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by blackice
No problem It happened to me too. Interesting to note here that this little excersise in futility by you and me and countless others, shows that in reality CTP is xp compliant.

That is what had lead me to believe that the servers are not compliant, with regards to our other xp problem.

Trial and error is a life saver let alone a compass of life, let alone the basics of compromise, let alone the reason we have hammers designed for computer repairs.

Peace


Grandpa Troll

[blackice]

Exactly

[checkMate]

In trying to find my CTP freezing problem I ran across this thread.

I have the same exact problem that Troll had. But, if I turn winxp compatibility off, the program won't work whatsoever. Get A CRC instantly when I hit play or open a PBEM file.

With win98 (or win95) compatibility turned on, it plays pretty good for a while, but then just freezes as described abvoe by troll.

I wonder how troll is able to run ctp with win98 compatability off?

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by checkMate
In trying to find my CTP freezing problem I ran across this thread.

I have the same exact problem that Troll had. But, if I turn winxp compatibility off, the program won't work whatsoever. Get A CRC instantly when I hit play or open a PBEM file.

With win98 (or win95) compatibility turned on, it plays pretty good for a while, but then just freezes as described abvoe by troll.

I wonder how troll is able to run ctp with win98 compatability off?

I now have WIN98SE instead of XP.

But when I had XP..buggy..simply buggy!

Win98SE is working great so I would suggest that as an OS playing CTP.

Good luck!

Peace

Grandpa Troll