Game Crashes and flashing screens

junk2drive · #1 June 29th, 2005, 01:14 PM

I have had all sound off since day one.
I get a rare blip of brightness (not me, the screen) that I think is related to things that I am running in the background. JMHO.

DRG · #2 June 29th, 2005, 01:24 PM

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junk2drive said:
I have had all sound off since day one.
I get a rare blip of brightness (not me, the screen) that I think is related to things that I am running in the background. JMHO.

OK, but what I'm trying to deterimine is if "Black Captain"s crashes AND flashes went away once he turned off the sound.

Don

The Black Captain · #3 June 30th, 2005, 08:31 AM

the crashes went. The flashes are still with me periodically, when the program ends the AI movement; so it's not a huge issue for me.

Stirling · #4 July 1st, 2005, 01:28 PM

My screen flashing seems to have stopped since I deleted a very old version of MS Works I had installed to open some files from an old computer. It appears that it had an update function that was constantly running.

Probably not much help to others with this problem, though.

Still get the end turn flashes sometimes.

Shadowcougar · #5 July 2nd, 2005, 04:30 PM

I get some white flashing form time to time. I also have the map go black for a second when the AI moves. the rest of the screen stays normal.

..full screen mode BTW

DRG · #6 July 2nd, 2005, 04:33 PM

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Shadowcougar said:
I also have the map go black for a second when the AI moves. the rest of the screen stays normal.

..full screen mode BTW

The screen going black between the AI and your turns for a brief moment is normal

Don

Shadowcougar · #7 July 2nd, 2005, 05:20 PM

OK just doesn't happen all the time. didn't think it was a problem.

BigJim · #8 June 30th, 2005, 04:33 AM

I do not get the flashing screen in full mode but the game does minimize by itself from time to time. I wonder it the flashes are related to that and on these flashing machines the game just doesn't get the minimize done but flashes in the attempt???

Caesar4 · #9 September 12th, 2005, 05:58 PM

I had the screen flashing when I was in "full screen mode". This game will just not work in that mode. Now I've changed it over to "windowed" mode it starts up but when I try to move my units, the game crashes with an error message reading: Error Signature Appname winspmbt.exe AC3audio.ax...can anyone help as I would love to play this game?!

Caesar4

DRG · #10 September 12th, 2005, 09:06 PM

First try playing with all the sound controls in the game preferences set to OFF

Then try pressing START and RUN and entering DXDIAG and check that your Direct X is working correctly.

Then read through the sound threads in this forum . There are a couple that are just dedicated to sound.

The game **will** work in full screen mode, lot's of people run it that way, It just won't run on your machine without some adjustments. First we have to run through the basics. The fact you are getting an audio error message leads me to think it's sound related and if you're game runs fine with sound off we can procedd from there

Don