I’ve just looked at the date of my last post and I cannot believe it has been over a month since I’ve done anything 40K/Warhammer related. Just been too busy trying to scrape together a living it seems.
I wanted to briefly revisit the issue I was having with running Dawn of War II on my PC as there was a further development in my efforts towards a resolution. I outlined what I had originally believed to be the fix in my post Dawn of Core 2, but despite vast improvements in the stability of the game, sadly it wasn’t a complete solution. I was still experiencing the odd crash. I didn’t feel there was much else I could do software-side, and as I had also received word from Relic staff that my crash reports were showing up as a unique occurrence, I decided that it was time to investigate things hardware-side.
Ultimately, the solution lay in the sound card – a Creative Audigy 4. Firstly, I uninstalled all drivers for the card and then physically removed it from the machine. I re-enabled the on-board AC97 audio chipset in the BIOS and installed the latest drivers. Then I ran the game again. Disaster. The game crashed rather horribly the very moment I started a mission. So I reversed the above procedure, and re-stalled my Audigy 4 – but this time placing the card in a different PCI slot and installing the latest drivers afresh. Since then I haven’t (as yet) experienced another crash, even during some quite intense battles, so I’m hoping that this was at last the real solution to the problem.