C&C 3 Crashes

West · 23 Nov 2007 at 20:25

Hi All,

My C&C 3 is having an odd tendancy to crash on me, I have most settings on high (Not very high) and AA on 1. And im getting a crash even with the game running on one core.

I have a Geforce 8600GT on a Dell Inspiron Laptop with Vista Premium, 2046 of Ram.

It comes up with a Graphics error and saying that because of the seriousness of the error the game will now exit.. the game itself comes to a standstill then crashes out to that error.

Im gonna try updating my drivers later, but any other ideas? I've patched to 1.09.

West · 24 Nov 2007 at 16:39

Okay the crash has happened again, I updated to the latest driver last night, its coming back with a direct 3D error, exception 0x0x88760870, and various bits and peices to do with the cnc4game.dat file and the Kernal32.dll

Its also stated the Display driver nviddmkm stopped responding..

Any ideas folks?

West · 24 Nov 2007 at 17:09

For the first week it ran fine... but in the last week its gotten progressivley worse... and now I cant play 1 game without it coming up..

West · 24 Nov 2007 at 18:29

ANyone else have any ideas?

West · 24 Nov 2007 at 19:04

Might be worth trying I suppose..

West · 24 Nov 2007 at 22:39

169 is that the latest release for Nvidia or ATI?

West · 25 Nov 2007 at 00:50

Still happening... tried compatability mode and also reducing the shaders to medium/

This is the error...

West · 25 Nov 2007 at 21:41

Nah its 32bit, Vent I dont use that often, always seems to quit out, but I think thats more down to my connection rather than anything.

I played a successfull game last night, i did a couple of things that the thread on the official forum suggested, theres a 60 page thread on there circling this issue, and the fact tha this game is just so badly coded that this sort of error is coming up constantly for a lot of people with Nvidia cards... and EA just arent paying any attention what so ever, there have been 9 patches as well and this still has not been adressed.