Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/ 2009-11-08T01:52:49-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/ /images/halogo.gif text/html 2008-06-10T18:40:25-05:00 Christian Hansen http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=80#537803 Heej... My name is Christian...<br /> <br /> When I start a game (skirmish or campaign) it goes fine... but suddently all my units, heroes and castles just die or explose at once... And then I'm just defeaded!<br /> <br /> Does anybody have an answer... then please wright!! text/html 2008-02-29T03:47:06-05:00 John Michael http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=80#530360 So i have the same stupid problem, although my computer only freezes on me with the Exception Access Violation thing after i try to do a battle. when i'm just moving armies around and stuff liket that, i'm fine. if it helps andy, my computer is a Compaq Presario with 2.00 GHz and 448 MB of Ram.<br /> <br /> am i just screwed?? text/html 2007-10-07T03:28:33-05:00 Robbie Jacobson http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=80#513199 i bought battle for middle earth 2 a few days ago cause it was cheep and i enjoyed the first one.<br /> <br /> when i put the DVD in it dvd drive it spins for a few mins and then stops. it doesnt auto play or anything.<br /> <br /> i open my computer and click on the icon but nothing happins and when i open the DVD i click on the setup and auto play and some times it says its not a win32 application the then the other times it doesnt nothing.<br /> <br /> i took it back and got a new copy cause i thought the Dvd was faulty. but its not. but other DVD games work fine. help?:/ text/html 2007-09-02T20:03:45-05:00 Meats_Of_Evil http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=80#508286 Did you try reinstalling the game? text/html 2007-09-02T14:29:32-05:00 add dda http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=80#508263 YEA, mine is fine, untill it has to show the battle. i cant skirmish, but i can campaign untill they fight!! pleasehelp... even after direct x 9.0 it doesnt work!!!<br /> <br /> <br /> oh yea, and when loading the battle it gets to 97% everytime lol. text/html 2007-07-09T19:07:07-05:00 s w http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#500837 please please help me. before i used to play bfme but it kept crashing so i uninstalled it, and now i try to install it this comes up &quot;Error executing 'D:\support\the battle for middle-earth_code.exe'%1 is not a valid win32 application&quot; anyone have any idea of what this means? if so please post a reply it is important. thanks! text/html 2007-07-09T19:06:38-05:00 s w http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#500836 please please help me. before i used to play bfme but it kept crashing so i uninstalled it, and now i try to install it this comes up &quot;Error executing 'D:\support\the battle for middle-earth_code.exe'%1 is not a valid win32 application&quot; anyone have any idea of what this means? if so please post a reply it is important. thanks! text/html 2007-05-24T15:13:19-05:00 Michael Stabb http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#493951 I wish i was as lucky as you guys i cant even get passed the first splash screen.<br /> Spec of the comp has nothing to do with it i know this. i have all the lates drivers for audigy 2 zs plat eax 7950 gt on sli and chipset and still nothing. so when some one does find out let me know... i had it working had to do a format reinstall and now nothing<br /> <br /> spec<br /> intel 2.4 core 2 duo 2 x 7950gt on sli 4gb 800mhz ram audigy 2 sound card so it cant be spec on how long it runs cause mine wont at all. help text/html 2006-05-15T17:35:36-05:00 serena lamoya http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#413068 I also, have a problem with BFME,I cant even install it.I submitted my questions to EA tech support and got no response.My question is:Why does it install to99% then gets to the last file which is the AmbientStreams.big file and stops.Error message says(Aproblem occurs when transfering the file AmbientStreams.big from the media,do you want to retry or cancel the installation?) I have directx updated and had my pc scanned for problems of any sort and still cant figure it out.HELP! text/html 2005-09-09T14:44:44-05:00 ed cat http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#321763 Right after a long long while i worked it out to be a power fault of some sort. Basically i had a big ass overclocking fan on my pc, and my pc automatically changed its speed acording to the heat of the processor. Anyway i upgraded my processor recently and i found i had very little coolant between it and the processor. so i stuck in my new processor and its fan which came with it and wahay all games which used to crash are working fine so for me, case closed text/html 2005-09-09T09:41:02-05:00 Vipersniper http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#321721 I don't know if this will help at all as I haven't tested it yet, but I found a few articles saying that some ram has timing problems keeping up with AMD processors, and that setting the timing in the bios to a more conservative level can help. If anyone tries this please let us know how it works out. text/html 2005-05-20T11:26:35-05:00 Chris Bowditch http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#277889 I have the same problem as Kenneth. Both my drives are DVD drives and when I double click on the game icon, the splash screen appears for a couple of seconds, the DVD begins spinning and then nothing ....<br /> <br /> Micky Sung: what does adding -f or -w to end of call for LotrBfme.exe do? text/html 2005-04-24T08:40:00-05:00 ed cat http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#268555 from what i have seen on this forum it appears that the crashes are all due to the motherboards fault. text/html 2005-04-24T05:23:45-05:00 Trenchcoat http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#268528 wow, lotsa problems with this game...<br /> <br /> i myself had a crash problem with the game too. i'd open the menus start a campeign mission, then it would crash just as the mission started or within a minute or two.<br /> i tried uninstalling/cleaning/reinstalling the game and the graphic drivers, played with bios settings (fast writes on/off, memory timings, etc) and nothing worked.<br /> <br /> til i replaced my asus a7v600-x mobo with an abit AN7, did a fresh install of windows xp pro w/sp 1 on my 74G raptor, and finally was able to set the right voltage and timings for my RAM.<br /> <br /> now it runs just fine @ 1600x1200 resolution with very high details.<br /> agp at 8x, nvidia 71.89 drivers text/html 2005-04-23T19:30:25-05:00 Mihael Zupancic http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36670/?o=60#268445 I have the no-cd crack for Battle for Middle Earth, but when I try to start the game it just doesn't start ( the computer works for a few seconds then it just stops,I have met all the minimum requirements).<br /> I have windows 2000 proffesional.Please help!