Hi evertybody,i bought this great game some day ago and to make it work i followed all the tutorials here to improve performance(patch PA.exe with 4gb patcher and also the command that unlocks 3gb usage and i modified all my graphic card settings as was written here) and installed lastest drivers. It works greatly better but after 15/20 minutes,when i start to use a lot of troops and vehicles suddenly appears a black screen and all my commands are frozen,only audio works. To exit this black screen i must turn off my computer. I have a 32 bit system with windows 7. RAM:4GB 2.53GHz , I have Directx 11 installed. Here's my DxDiag(i saved it 10/15 min after i turned off PA,does it change something??) How can i fix this problem and play without it crashes?? Thanks in advance
4g ram. 2.53 ghz. *looks at dxdiag* GeForce 9600 gt. I had a 2.8ghz, 4g ram, and 9500gt when I first started PA. Got 8g ram now. So, that is quite decent to play PA with, EXCEPT for the 32bit OS. That isn't officially supported, and requires a LOT of bypasses to get to successfully work. Which you did. So, reluctantly, I'd suggest a backup of your files and upgrading to 64, which I believe I heard was free to do, or if you are familiar with Linux, dual-booting by partitioning the end of your hard drive 20g of space to install Linux on and then installing PA on that to play which should play fine. There might be someone else here who has successfully gotten 32bit to work, they might know more you can do, or you can google for more 32 bit memory bypasses. So to clarify, the reason the computer is crashing, is because the game can't access enough memory, because it accesses close to 4g usually to play, and 32x OS are limited to 2g per program. With bypasses, people practically perform miracles getting it to load, but since the game runs mostly on server once they get it loading it runs about as fast for them as anyone. Once server comes out, you can opt to play on your own machine, and yours would run mid-par only if it had 64x OS, with 32x OS it should still be able to run client but I can't gurantee hosting local theoretically. OH, and it wouldn't hurt to update audio driver if you could, that dates to March 2010.
