Please help

[grace4ever_99]

Hi everyone,
I'm new here and I need some help with my CotN game. I am having the same problem a lot of people are having. I can play the tutorials but when I try to play the Campain it closes itself. I have read through a lot of the threads here and noticed some people have posted their "dxdiag" in a link, but i don't know how to do that. Can someone please tell me how to post that? All my drivers were updated in 2004, I know they could use another update but I'm having problems finding the correct updates. If someone could tell me how to post my "dxdaig" and then take a look at it when i get it posted you would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[MarkDuffy]

Welcome to our family, Grace4ever_99! :)

I am not a Tech Team person, but I can get you started.

Click here (http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10191)

Good Luck! :)

[grace4ever_99]

First off, Thank you for the help getting my "dxdiag" file markduffy. Ok my problem is that I can only play the tutorials. When I try to start a campain and click to open the city the screen goes blank and it closes itself out. While I was looking around the forum the other night I found that a few people were able to fix this problem by updating their drivers. I don't know if this will work for me, I don't know much about computers:o . If someone could please look at my "dxdiag" file and give me any suggestions I would really appreciate it. If there is anyway for me to avoid having to get a new video card, it would be great as I am on a very limited budget. Once again thank you.

[Kiya]

Hello grace4ever_99 and welcome! :)

A non techie here, but trying to help. I had a look at your dxdiag and I think your graphic card does not support some important element that is needed for CoTN. So sorry if that is the case.

http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?p=42556&highlight=supported+cards#post42556

Please see this thread and especially the 2nd post by Keith. (I found your card on this list.)

edit/ You better wait what the techies will say about all this. I probably confuse more than help.

[Amenirdis]

Kiya is absolutely right. Your videocard is too old to be able to run CotN.
You also have not a lot of RAM available. 512 MB would be preferable, as Windows XP would profit from that as well. Also your CPU is low-end.

So - if you get a new video card, CotN would probably run, but only with the settings turned down.

Another tip: Try not to install anything else on your harddrvie C. It is getting full and Windows needs room to move data around.

[Keith]

Got Caesar IV on my mind! ;) :D