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I downloaded the Age of Empire III - The Asian Dynasties Trial edition and played

the single Player->Champaign with no problem.  However I played it a 2nd time and it

did crash with and error report dialog.

I tried to play the Single Player->Skirmish and it works for a little while and then

crashes when I start to move around and explore near the water.

I noticed it would crash when I selected the dock waggon and move to the water to build a dock so in future trys I don't click on the dock waggon and the game seems to play longer.

I tried to turn off some of the Help & Tool Options->Graphics options.  When I did this

the game would crash right away and I couldn't even play the Campaign level.

To fix this I would have to uninstall the game and then reinstall it.  Then I could play the Campaign level.

I was hoping turning off some of the graphics options would make the Skirmish level work

longer.  Turning off some of the graphics options just made the game crash faster.

This is the graphics options I changed:

Bit Depth: 16

These are the graphics options I turned off:

   Water reflection

   Bloom effect

   High-poly models

   Terrain detail objects

   Tracer effects

   Foot prints

Other settings I did:

   Terrain texture quality: low

   Model texture quality: low

   Texture filter quality: low

My graphic setting is set to 16 bit, 1024x768

I have:

   Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

   MSI Nvidia NX6600GT-TD128   graphics card,

      Driver 75.19_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe 9JUL2008

   Intel Desktop Board D945GTP
      2.8 GHz

      1 Gig RAM

      BIOS Driver: NT94510J.86A.4092.EB.EXE 9/3/2007

      Intel SigmaTel Audio driver: AUD_allXP_5682_PV_IDT_v006_IAS.exe 11/4/2007

The above drivers were the latest drivers as of 07/15/2008

 This is what the error dialog says:

      Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties Trial has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Error signature

   AppName: age3y.exe    AppVer: 0.1.2.6    ModName: ntdll.dll

   ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180   Offset: 00001230

   C:\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\6da3_appcompat.txt

Other previous 3 error files I saved are:

   b4a9_appcompat.txt

   7821_appcompat.txt

   aa9b_appcompat.txt

   6da3_appcompat.txt

I renamed these files with a .xml extentions and can view them in a internet explorer.

It doesn't help me any but maybe it would help someone else.

I click send error in the dialog and I hope someone is getting all these reports and can fix the

problems.

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07/23/2008 15:50 EST

I played around with the graphics options some more and

didn't change the following fields:

   Bit Depth, I left at 32

   Terrain Texture Quality, I left at High

   Model  Texture Quality, I left at High

   Texture Filter    Quality, I left at High

I was able to play for a little longer time.  It crashed after I selected the Dock waggon and

built a Dock.  Before I wasn't able to build a dock before it crashed.

Maybe I need more memory?

My mother board has 1Gig of Physical Memory,

there is 580000 K available. 

I saw this number when

I do a Ctrl-Alt-Del to view the Windows Task Manager (WTM). The RAM availble is on the TAB performance section of the WTM.

My graphic card has 128 MB DDR3 memory.

I also ran defrage and deleted files in

start->run temp

start->run %TEMP% 

a computer like your shouldn't have problems while running AOE, but here are some things you can try:

-update the graphics driver(for you card, go to nvidia.com)

-uninstall the demo

-check if your computer's video cable is connected to the video card, not to the motherboard

-reinstall DirectX 9.0c(i think it comes on the game's CD)

-make a HD clean up(i use CCleaner for it, but windows comes with a built in one)

-defrag the HD(i use AusLogics DiskDefrag for it, but, again, windows has a built in one)

These are the graphics options I turned back on:

   Water reflection

   Bloom effect

   High-poly models

   Terrain detail objects

   Tracer effects

   Foot prints

Other settings I turned back on:

When I turn these settings to Low it caused the game to crash before any screen even loaded.

And I would have to uninstall and reinstall the game to get the game to do anything.

   Terrain texture quality: High

   Model texture quality: High

   Texture filter quality: High

I turned off or set to low the following and

now I can play the game without it crashing:

Anti-alias Quality: Off

Shader Quality: Low

Shadow Quality: Off

Particle Quality: Low

:)

7/25/2008 ------------------------------------------------------

I played the skirmish level again.

This time I just set the

Shader Quality: Low

and left the following settings alone:

Windows build in one really sucks, I use ccleaner and Auslogics too.

BTW marlonsm your sig rocks.

just a note:

with the shader quality off or on low, bloom and water reflection, have no effects