Black and white 2 completely stops

Fudge Dragon

Fudge Dragon

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I have been having problems with black and white 2 (v 1.2) that have completely left me stumped and I was wondering if any of you could help.

Whenever I am zoomed in near lots of action (say watching my creature and an enemy platoon fight wile arrows are fired in or holding a water miracle over a resting platoon while they practice their sword skills with each other) the game completely stops. When this happens nothing responds. I have no sound and pressing the windows key combos (like Ctrl-Alt-Delete) do nothing. I updated my graphics card drivers after the first crash but it hasn't helped.

I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ with 1.5 GB of ram. My graphics card is a NVidia 6200. My graphics settings are on medium and my graphics.config file is unedited. I'm telling you I'm stumped.

Any ideas? :help
 
Hi, it sounds to me that the CPU could be getting overworked and hanging.

Try lowering the graphics even more. Either the settings or resolution. Defrag your C: drive. Disable any unnecessary apps running in the background (Anti-virus and firewall for a start).

See if any of that helps.
 
Tried everything you suggested. It still hung.
There are two things that bother me about this
1. It worked fine for 2 hours this morning before I went to work.
2. I have played through black and white 2s campaign twice now (before I formatted all my hard drives) and its not like I have changed my hardware since then.

Thanks for the suggestions Kays but I'm even more stumped now. :help
 
It could be that the computer currently doesn't have proper drivers for the game, or some power of the video card is going to other things. Please tell us the capacity of the card so that we can help you further. The thing is, if your drive is recently formated then you should have absolutely no problems. My CPU is very similar to your's but mine is an AMD Athlon Xp 3200+ 2.2 Ghz. My only bet is that the video card has some other thing to work on, in unison with Black and White. Either that or yes the CPU has a lot of things working in the background. I would suggest closing everything but sound things in the system tray in the bottom right corner of the screen. Be sure to close somethings that don't seem necessary, or just everything that wasn't there when the drive was completely newly formated.

To figure out if it is overheating or overworking, try going into BIOS after resetting your computer after a freeze-up. Once there check out PC Health, and tell us the temperature there. If it is anywhere over 55C then that maybe a slight problem. You're welcome if any of this is correct.
 
Well all my drivers are up to date. I cant for the life of me think of what is causing this. My graphics cards power is certainly not going elsewhere and on top of that it worked for 3 days before this started happening. The card is a Nvidia GeForce 6200. It has 256mb of on-board RAM and a far as I can remember it supports up to pixel shadier 3. I have already tried disabling background tasks and my machine is free of spy ware and viruses. Unfortunately my graphics card doesn't appear in the PC heath check (its not on-board)

I wish I did have this resolved but unfortunately I'm not there yet. One thing though. I did take the side off the case and felt the heatsink on the card. It was almost too hot to touch so it suggests a temperature in excess of 37 degrees. Is this normal?
 
37 degrees is about blood temperature. So etc.should feel niether warm or cold.
Too hot to touch starts at about 60 for most so you could well be in the danger zone for freezes.
I am guessing but this is passive cooled ? right.
If so a cheap fan or decreasing the load  on your GPU could solve the problem.
Air ducts can be made for nothing if you have a case fan that you can rob some air from and an empty plastic drink bottle.
 
Thanks for the clarification on temperature. I know blood temperature is around 37 and that it was hotter, but as I am no good at guessing temperature I couldn't say how much hotter. It is indeed passive cooled, but to add confusion to all of this. I played dawn of war on it earlier to see if the same thing would happen. The card got hotter than It did while playing B&W2 but no crash.

I'm gonna see if I can replicate the crash on another game.
 
More to the point would be force some air flow over the card to see if you can play B&W2 longer.
Other games will put different loads on your card and will not answer  your B&W2 problem.
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The problem  with comparing other games and temperatures is  that game 1 can put a high but steady loadon your GPU and not cause problems  but game 2  can have high spikes in demand  that can crash  it with poor airflow.  The working game can feel hotter because it is in use  when you feel it . The crashed game  will have started to cool  before  you feel it.
 
Seems you guys were right! :laugh2

I just screwed a large fan to my graphics cards heatsink and no crashes now.

Thanks for all the help  :fixed
 
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