Pirates! crashing constantly

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-03-15 11:25am

I picked up a copy of Sid Meier's Pirates! (the remake) yesterday . I've greatly enjoyed what I've gotten play, but the game crashes so damned much that I can't get very far.

I've done everything I can think of to fix the problem. Turned off shadows and stuff in the game, downloaded the patches, updated my display drivers, but nothing works. If anybody's encountered this problem and knows how to fix it, I'd be very grateful if you'd tell me.

Post by **Kuja** » 2006-03-15 02:12pm

Try exchanging it for another copy. My buddy's X-box copy hasn't had any problems.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2006-03-15 04:12pm

Could be some ninjas around, ninjas frikking hate pirates!

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-03-15 06:09pm

One of the most stable games I've played recently, for my part. How does it crash exactly? Hard crash so you have to reboot, out to desktop, speakers putting out all sorts of weird noise (my fucking motherboard conflicitng with my video card, don't ask)?

Darth Quorthon · Post by **Darth Quorthon** » 2006-03-15 07:53pm

Do you have a dual-core CPU by any chance? Some games go batshit on them. You have to set the affinity to single core to get it to work.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-03-15 08:34pm

Vympel wrote:One of the most stable games I've played recently, for my part. How does it crash exactly? Hard crash so you have to reboot, out to desktop, speakers putting out all sorts of weird noise (my fucking motherboard conflicitng with my video card, don't ask)?

Usually crashes to the desktop, but I've had to reboot once or twice. No weird noise from the speakers.

And no duel core CPU, Quorthon.

Perhaps I'll investigate the ninja lead..

Prozac the Robert · Post by **Prozac the Robert** » 2006-03-16 06:40am

My sister had some trouble playing it on a Dell desktop, though that could have been a graphics card thing.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-03-16 09:50am

This might be it. I've got a Dell. Did she ever figure out a way to make it work?

Prozac the Robert · Post by **Prozac the Robert** » 2006-03-16 11:41am

Afraid not. She'd borrowed it from someone so she just gave it back. This was a while ago though, so it's possible there's a more recent patch that might help.