Game Crashes

[Boskki]

Hi,
I am having seriopus problems with championship manager 03/04 on my pc. I will try to give as much detail as possible below, here goes.

Right i have a new computer about 3 months old with 2.1G processor 512 Ram and 80GB hard drive with built in soundto my motherboard which is an ASRock K7S41GX and a 128 MB ATI Radeon 9200SE Graphics Card.

I am running windows XP which is totally up to date with service pack 2.
The problem is:
The computer gives me an error message with option to debug send error report or dont send. Which ever one i click it just takes me back to windows.(happens between 3-15mins gameplay).

I have been in contact with eidos and tried loads of trouble shooting but it just aint working.

I have tried the following
Completly wiped hard drive and reinstalled windows xp.
Completly wiped hard drive and reinstalled windows me.
Tried with all official updates on both OS.
Tried Championship manager 4 on both OS
Tried Championship manager 01/02 on both OS
with all of these i recieve the same errors.

I recieve similar msg's when playing Tiger Woods 2005 aswell.

The error msg says cm 03/04.exe(or which ever game) has caused a serious problem and must close. Then get options to view more details:

This is the Error signature:
AppName: cm0304.exe AppVer: 4.1.0.0 ModName: cm0304.exe
ModVer: 4.1.0.0 Offset: 0057be8d

and the more technical information is
Exception Information
Code: 0xc0000005 Flags: 0x00000000
Record: 0x0000000000000000 Address: 0x000000000097be8d

System Information
Windows NT 5.1 Build: 2600
CPU Vendor Code: 68747541 - 69746E65 - 444D4163
CPU Version: 000006A0 CPU Feature Code 0383FBFF
CPU AMD Feature Code: C1C3FBFF

Can Someone plaese help and explain to me what this means as i dont have a clue.

Cheers Sean

[ashish]

BTW i must say that is a pretty cool game.. i played it before... but back to the point.... maybe there is nothing wrong with your PC... try contacting the guys at "championship manager " and telling them about this problem. maybe they have a patch or something to fix this up...
also try to play it with the least options enabled i.e. with the default setting (of ur game) enabled.

[Boskki]

Hi Cheers for the reply
I have already tried this getting in touch with championship manager people and they did not know of a solution that is why i think that there mustr be a problem with my actual computer.

Cheers Sean

[ashish]

have you tried to run it with minimal specs? also try reinstalling it with minimal specs... also have you upgraded your video drivers recently? what version of direct x do you have?

[Shane16]

Hi,

I'm having the same problems with my cm 03/04 version, the game will crash and go back to windows within 10 minutes. Also it comes up with errors like array access out of bounds and that its caused a serious problem, but the majority of the times its just an error report. I've tried reinstalling the game and windows xp, but theres been no hope. I also thought that it was a hardware problem but I was told that it was a software problem. So I have contacted Eidos with the problem and am hoping for a reply in the next couple of days. have you found a solution!

[vidster]

I had a similar problem and had similar spec's as yours. I solved the problem by reducing the graphics effects and sound effects. I think the problem was a combination of processor getting hot/ graphics card not quite up to the job and xp using a lot of resources. Windows xp is well known for needing plenty of memory to run smoothly.
Try stopping all other programs that are running in the background eg: antivirus, firewall. Make sure you re-activate them all before going on line.

[Boskki]

Cheers For the replies,
Shane I also contacted edios and although the were polite and quick to respond they did not have a clue how to fix the problem,
Vidster i have tried all of that i dont think my problem is related to Championship Manager, i have got to the position that i think it is a hardware problem, graphics/memory, so i tried lots of combinations of my hardware and i have got it down to a dodgy motherboard and i am currently having it replaced. Hope this fixes my problem.

Cheers Sean

[Shane16]

Sean,

Have you by any chance got ethernet controller installed correctly on your computer? As I think it could be the cause of my problem.