vodooeconomist
11-18-2007, 01:29 AM
Hello Tilted Mill support persons. Hopefully you will be able to give me some good support here. Alright, so even though I bout Societies on Wednesday, I only managed to get it into an improved state.
When I initially installed the game Wednesday it was giving me runtime errors as soon as the game would begin to load. After fumbling to try and fix it, one of my attempts Friday actually caused other EA games to not recognize that I had the most current version of DirectX, and that my graphics card was more than capable of handling it (last time I download an ATI driver from M$FT).
So today I had the sudden revelation that the above was most likely the result of a driver error and not an error from installing the latest versions of .NET or C++ runtime files, and my hypothesis proved correct. I first reverted to a clean system restore point from Wednesday before I did anything. Then I installed all of the latest Windows updates minus .NET, the C++ runtimes, and the graphics card drivers. Then I added .NET, and got no errors in my other games. So I updated the C++ runtimes, and everything was still good. So I installed Societies, reinstalled the newer runtimes, and rebooted. The game launched, I could see the intro video, and I could get to the splash screen. I clicked to begin the game, and then it took me screen where I add my name. I typed my four letter name in, and clicked "add". Then it pops up with a C++ runtime error, and that ends the game. I installed the game's patch, but that didn't do anything. The last time the error occurred, I grabbed a screenshot of the error's details, and it is in the JPEG attached.
What I would like to know is whether there is something I can do to remedy this error by myself, or whether I will have to wait for a patch to be developed for the game as I would really like to play it. Please let me know whether there is a solution, or if there is any additional information which is needed!
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When I initially installed the game Wednesday it was giving me runtime errors as soon as the game would begin to load. After fumbling to try and fix it, one of my attempts Friday actually caused other EA games to not recognize that I had the most current version of DirectX, and that my graphics card was more than capable of handling it (last time I download an ATI driver from M$FT).
So today I had the sudden revelation that the above was most likely the result of a driver error and not an error from installing the latest versions of .NET or C++ runtime files, and my hypothesis proved correct. I first reverted to a clean system restore point from Wednesday before I did anything. Then I installed all of the latest Windows updates minus .NET, the C++ runtimes, and the graphics card drivers. Then I added .NET, and got no errors in my other games. So I updated the C++ runtimes, and everything was still good. So I installed Societies, reinstalled the newer runtimes, and rebooted. The game launched, I could see the intro video, and I could get to the splash screen. I clicked to begin the game, and then it took me screen where I add my name. I typed my four letter name in, and clicked "add". Then it pops up with a C++ runtime error, and that ends the game. I installed the game's patch, but that didn't do anything. The last time the error occurred, I grabbed a screenshot of the error's details, and it is in the JPEG attached.
What I would like to know is whether there is something I can do to remedy this error by myself, or whether I will have to wait for a patch to be developed for the game as I would really like to play it. Please let me know whether there is a solution, or if there is any additional information which is needed!
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