FO3 In-game crash

posted on December 19th, 2008, 2:26 pm

Hi all,

Ive had various crashes in fleet ops 3 after about 10 minutes game time in instant action. just crashed to desktop and complains about d3d8.dll. ive obviously updated my directx to the latest release, and my graphics drivers. anyone else had this problem? happened to me in vista and xp, and every single time ive tried the game.

oh and my system is as follows

cpu: athlon 6400+
graphics: radeon 3850
sound: m-audio firewire 410
XP SP2 or Vista SP1

thanks

posted on December 19th, 2008, 2:34 pm

you need to send me a report so i can better help you with your problem... next time a crash occours, click send report

posted on December 20th, 2008, 1:57 pm

ok, sent report. email is stuartio AT yahoo.com

tia

posted on December 20th, 2008, 2:56 pm

thanks, i will take a look into it

posted on December 21st, 2008, 9:07 am

Hi,
so it has been done.

Every now and then I came here to watch the progress.
Last week I saw the announcement and immediately searched my A2 CD 

Unfortunately I have a crash everytime when the Dominion is my opponent.
The crash appears after playing a longer time.
All techtrees have been developed and the endgame is starting.

I could finish games against the Romulans, Klingons with or without alliances.
It is very challenging.
With the Romulans on easy as my allies and the Klingons on medium, we´ve been defeated after half an hour 

But if the dominion is part of it I have no chance to finish a game.
I´ve sent a bug report, I hope it will help to find the problem.

One more thing, I tried to play the Dominion War with Romulans and Klingons as my allies against the Dominion on hard AI.
Although they had massive fleets, there never happened combined actions of the allies.
They just stayed around the moons with dozens of ships and never came to help or attacked the Dominion base together.
So would it be possible to create a better coop somehow?

With great respect for your work and persistency.

Philipp

posted on December 23rd, 2008, 12:21 am

I seem to have solved the problem, at least the specific one i'm having. every time the thing crashes, the bug report cites some kind of problem in the d3d8 dll. now i notice that there are 2 different ones being called, which is a little odd, so i simply removed the windows one, and hey, the game works crash free.

oddly, removing the game's own one crashes the game at launch, and even more oddly, the game's own one is only 20k.

im assuming this is all part of the game, and am thoroughly confused that im the only one this seems to have happened to..