IWD keeps crashing in Vista - any advice?
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:27 am
Hi,
I'm playing Icewind Dale with HOW and TOL, fully patched, on a Vista laptop with (so it tells me) a Mobile Intel 4 Series Chipset Family graphics card. It worked fine for the first few chapters, but I've found that on the lower levels of the dungeons, starting with the snake-shaped portion of Dragon's Eye, the game becomes extremely unstable and frequently crashes - makes a 'bong' noise and goes straight to black screen, no error message, nothing. I just about managed to grit it out until the lower levels of Dorn's Deep; combat with the Neo Orog marauders past the prison cells always caused a crash, and from the second part of the Hall of Heroes section, the game crashed in similar fashion when I was trying to take out Terikan. After I finally did succeed and moved out onto the glacier, it keeps crashing when in combat with the Greater Ice Trolls. Combat and opening doors seem to be a particular problem, with the game frequently hanging just at the point where I select a hostile target or attempt to open a door.
I have tried pretty much everything described on the web; the game is running in Windows 2000 compatibility mode, as administrator; I've also tried adjusting the resolution on the game and on the machine itself so they match, but I'm out of ideas. I tried installing the specialist UK patch, even though mine isn't a UK version, but that makes no difference. Any suggestions? It's incredibly frustrating because it means the game is essentially unplayable.
Cheers.
I'm playing Icewind Dale with HOW and TOL, fully patched, on a Vista laptop with (so it tells me) a Mobile Intel 4 Series Chipset Family graphics card. It worked fine for the first few chapters, but I've found that on the lower levels of the dungeons, starting with the snake-shaped portion of Dragon's Eye, the game becomes extremely unstable and frequently crashes - makes a 'bong' noise and goes straight to black screen, no error message, nothing. I just about managed to grit it out until the lower levels of Dorn's Deep; combat with the Neo Orog marauders past the prison cells always caused a crash, and from the second part of the Hall of Heroes section, the game crashed in similar fashion when I was trying to take out Terikan. After I finally did succeed and moved out onto the glacier, it keeps crashing when in combat with the Greater Ice Trolls. Combat and opening doors seem to be a particular problem, with the game frequently hanging just at the point where I select a hostile target or attempt to open a door.
I have tried pretty much everything described on the web; the game is running in Windows 2000 compatibility mode, as administrator; I've also tried adjusting the resolution on the game and on the machine itself so they match, but I'm out of ideas. I tried installing the specialist UK patch, even though mine isn't a UK version, but that makes no difference. Any suggestions? It's incredibly frustrating because it means the game is essentially unplayable.
Cheers.
