Matress_of_evil wrote:
Hey htgoetz, welcome to the forums, although i'm sorry the game is causing you problems like this. I've not heard of this particular problem before.
First off, the currently released version of the game requires .Net 3.5 SP1. The next version of the game will require .Net 4, but we still don't have an estimate as to when that's coming out. .Net 4 builds on existing versions though, so it basically includes 3.5 SP1, so it really shouldn't cause problems.
It's interesting that you think the problem may be sound-related though. Mike (The Developer) has talked about Supremacy having command lines before to stop the music playing, but I don't know if this has been implemented or is part of a planned update because i've never tried it. Give it a try though. Try commands like adding the -nomusic tag to the .exe and see if that works.
One other thing is to try updating your audio drivers. My old computer (Which was also XP SP3) didn't like it when I upgraded the audio drivers though - whenever I tried it, my computer lost the ability to make sounds, so if you encounter the same problem just roll back the drivers.
And one final idea is to try downloading the game again, just on the off-chance that your copy of the game might have some corrupted audio files.
Could you also have a look in your Supremacy folder and see if you can find two files for me. There *may* be two .txt files - Error.txt and ServerError.txt. One (Or both) of these files may be generated by the game whenever it encounters an error or crashes. The files are automatically deleted when you load up the game next though, so you *might* have to look for them after you've rebooted from a crash i'm afraid. But if you can find these files, they may provide some info on the causes.
The next version of Supremacy is going to have better error reporting. I believe Mike has actually already added the new error reporting system to our developer release of the game. Unfortunately that won't help you, but hopefully it will help with future problems. I'll give Mike a nudge about you though and see if he has any ideas.
First off, the currently released version of the game requires .Net 3.5 SP1. The next version of the game will require .Net 4, but we still don't have an estimate as to when that's coming out. .Net 4 builds on existing versions though, so it basically includes 3.5 SP1, so it really shouldn't cause problems.
It's interesting that you think the problem may be sound-related though. Mike (The Developer) has talked about Supremacy having command lines before to stop the music playing, but I don't know if this has been implemented or is part of a planned update because i've never tried it. Give it a try though. Try commands like adding the -nomusic tag to the .exe and see if that works.
One other thing is to try updating your audio drivers. My old computer (Which was also XP SP3) didn't like it when I upgraded the audio drivers though - whenever I tried it, my computer lost the ability to make sounds, so if you encounter the same problem just roll back the drivers.
And one final idea is to try downloading the game again, just on the off-chance that your copy of the game might have some corrupted audio files.
Could you also have a look in your Supremacy folder and see if you can find two files for me. There *may* be two .txt files - Error.txt and ServerError.txt. One (Or both) of these files may be generated by the game whenever it encounters an error or crashes. The files are automatically deleted when you load up the game next though, so you *might* have to look for them after you've rebooted from a crash i'm afraid. But if you can find these files, they may provide some info on the causes.
The next version of Supremacy is going to have better error reporting. I believe Mike has actually already added the new error reporting system to our developer release of the game. Unfortunately that won't help you, but hopefully it will help with future problems. I'll give Mike a nudge about you though and see if he has any ideas.
Thanks for the quick replay, Matress_of_evil.
I have a Auzentech X-Fi Forte sound card, which is basically a creative labs card. I have the latest driver installed -- there are only very few updates to that driver.
I'll check if the "-nomusic" will help.
The error.txt file exists, but it is empty and the ServerError.txt does not even exist, but i have restarted the game after the last freeze and therefore i will have to look for them after the next freeze.
I'll post here if i have more information.
