Screen Resoulution limit

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Everytime i start up my Sins of a Solar Empire, it crashes. As soon as it tries to load the cinimatics, it stops working, no dump file, no nothing. My current resolution is 1920x1200(epic christmas present). I also reinstalled windows a week ago(file space) and I redownloaded it off Impulse.

 

What's the ABSOLUTE top Sins of a Solar Empire can support, if there's any limit.

 

Edit: Disregard all that, i tried switching resolution sizes, having my previous screen as the main monitor, still crashes

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Need a bit more info. OS, vid card, etc. I had a similar problem, but without knowing your set-up, I can't really answer your question.

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

res. is really only limited by ur monitor and/or vid card and rarely buy the program, but like darksentinel said we need more info

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Windows Vista Home Premium Edition

nVidia 8600GTS

1920x1200 in slot 1 and a 1280x1024 in slot 2

Uhh, don't really know what else to put because like, i said, it worked fine before i reinstalled windows.(and got the screen)

 

It worked FINE before i reinstalled Windows(and before the problems with the downloads on Impulse)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I play in 1920x1200, and yes it looks fabulous.  I don't have a super high end video card either, ATI 2600 XT (AGP).  I make sure to keep my drivers up to date though.

 

edit:  definitely make sure you get the latest drivers for your video card

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting The4th1, reply 3
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition

nVidia 8600GTS

1920x1200 in slot 1 and a 1280x1024 in slot 2

Uhh, don't really know what else to put because like, i said, it worked fine before i reinstalled windows.(and got the screen)

 

It worked FINE before i reinstalled Windows(and before the problems with the downloads on Impulse)
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Quick question. Does you motherboard have onboard video?

The problem I had was this. Popped in a 9500GT, and hooked up my 2 monitors. Some stuff worked fine, but one game would die at the cinematics like you describe. I have an Acer Aspire E380 that has the onboard video. I thought I had disabled it in device manager. Then I noticed on the display properties that there was a 3rd screen, which was the onboard. As soon as I killed that, everything worked.

Also note that the game should support the highest resoulution your primary monitor is capable of. Make sure you have the latest drivers. Version 180.48 as of the writing of this. Also go through the nVidia control panel to make sure all your settings are correct there as well.

 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

My driver version is 178.24 Edit:Graphics card version

And no it doesn't have onboard video.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

i have the same video card and my game works great cept for the 4 min dumps i had today...which is funny cause i never had a mini dump before, and i have been playing off and on for about a year.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting The4th1, reply 6
My driver version is 178.24 Edit:Graphics card version

And no it doesn't have onboard video.
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Ok...Grab the 180.48 drivers, and install those.

Just had a thought also. Bear in mind, this is based on if you have a motherboard with the nVidia chipset. You have 2 sets of drivers. Video, and motherboard. Just had a problem with my fiancé's machine because of a conflict between 2 of the drivers. Popped a 6600LE in her machine. The motherboard drivers have a video driver there, as well as the ones I loaded from the video drivers themselves, and it caused all kinds of problems. So, let's do this...

  1. Go to www.nvidia.com and get the latest drivers for the vid card and motherboard.
  2. Install the motherboard drivers first, making sure not to load the video driver there.
  3. After the required reboot, install the 180.48 drivers. Will also require a reboot.
  4. After Vista loads, check your display properties, and the settings in the nVidia control panel to make sure all the settings are correct and the way you want them.
  5. Make sure you have Sins patched to 1.12.

I just tried different settings. Different resoulutions on both screens. Desktop spanned and cloned, etc., and it fired up each time for me. Another question I just thought of. Are you OC'ing anything on your machine? Some programs get twitchy when you do that. Lastly, check your event viewer, and see if it shows any problems there.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

The motherboard is a: )Phoenix - Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG, also i checked on the nVidia site, the latest driver is 178.24, according to the site, the only latest other driver i can find is the 180.84, did you mean that?

I'm currently updating my Windows with all 12 possible updates

I also tried what you tried, didn't work for me.

I'm not OC'ing.

It's the latest version, i always update to the latest version before i play.

 

This is what i got when i looked at the event properties of the error:

Faulting application Sins of a Solar Empire.exe, version 1.1.2.0, time stamp 0x49404540, faulting module Sins of a Solar Empire.exe, version 1.1.2.0, time stamp 0x49404540, exception code 0xc000000d, fault offset 0x001f237a, process id 0x139c, application start time 0x01c96a0136155df8.
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Edit: I've updated Windows, tried Sins of a Solar Empire again. Didn't work, tried cloning, single-view. Didn't work.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

The motherboard is a: )Phoenix - Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG
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No.

That's your BIOS.

Fairly standard.  (In other words, doesn't tell us a thing.)

Try running CPU-Z.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

OH, ok.

Manufacturer(irrelevant): alienware

Model: alienware 2

Chipset: NVIDIA SPP190 (C51XE) Rev. A2

Southbridge: NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI

(do i need to include LPCIO?)

 

(relevance?)

Graphic Interface

Version PCI-Express

Link Width x16 Max Supported x16

 

 

Edit: Thank you for your time guys. It seems it was a software problem rather than my hardware. I uninstalled it from Impulse and reinstalled in via the disk. Thank you anyway.