Can't get passed the loading screen.

[Sarge51]

It loads fine, and the menus work smoothly, but when it gets to about 95% done with loading and says "Painting Terrain" it crashes. I tried changing textures down to Medium and no avail.

[Judhudson]

A brief rundown on what your computer specs are would be nice, such as your CPU, Graphics Card, Amount of RAM, etc.

I can only guess, but try updating the drivers to your graphics card. Also, make sure you have 512MB of Memory or more for this game to run.

[Sarge51]

She can handle pretty much anything, I don't see why it wouldn't handle the game:

Windows Vista Home Premium.
300Gig Hard Drive
Intel Duo Core 1.86GHz
Maxed RAM at 3.25GB
Nvidia GeForce8600 GT Video/Graphics Card


I just tried running off the tutorial and it loaded, and I heard fireworks, but then it crashed, same as before. A retry just made it crash at the loading screen like on the tutorial. I'm going to try a reinstall and the patches again.

[Sarge51]

A reinstall and patch didn't do anything. I've tried many different graphic options and it still isn't loading. Any ideas?


Edit: Just tried to run it in Compatibility for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Didn't work.

[Judhudson]

This person here has the same problem: http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14848&highlight=loading+crash

They fixed it, as they were running a NoCD Patch. However, I don't think that is the case for you, otherwise you would have mentioned it.

Some ideas I can give you is re-installing DirectX 9.0c again and updating all of your drivers relating to graphics and sound cards.

[Sarge51]

Yeah, I took your advice and tried updating most of my drivers, but didn't find any. I'm going to try to reinstall DirectX.

[Judhudson]

This would be your driver for your graphics card: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_169.25_whql.html

[Sarge51]

Oh thanks! Trying that.


Nothing different. Maybe I should just quit trying. :ermm:

[Judhudson]

Don't give up, you'll find an answer...

I cannot think of anything else at this moment to do. You can try heading over here: http://tiltedmill.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=35 and tell your problem in the official TM forums. Perhaps one of their tech guys can get you rolling.

[Sarge51]

Thanks, I was thinking about heading there.

Still nothing. It looks like a Graphics error, though..

[Sarge51]

Hm, Maybe it was my old graphics card. I just went out and bought a slightly better one, Installed the drivers, opened up the game, worked fine. Except for a crash an hour into play. But the game was getting choppy by then, so I reduced the settings to medium and ran much smoother.

[Judhudson]

Glad you got it working :)