Actually running the game with admin checked on the launcher icon via properties seems to have fixed the problem, all good now.

Actually running the game with admin checked on the launcher seems to have fixed the problem, all good now.

I have a similar problem. Sometimes game doesn't start. Managed to get the game running but now it freezes when I try to load a saved game, both custom and autosave. Also, update button doesn't work.

Don't have Avast, if only it were that easy . I've got Malware Bytes installed, have tried running it wihout that either, but still crashes. Thanks for the suggestion anyway!

THanks anyway Pip. Will there be another patch?

Well... I have updated my bios. I have run a memory check on the ram. I have updated the motherboard drivers, cleaned out the registry, updated WIFI and sound drivers, reinstalled latest graphics drivers. Still crashing - couldn't even complete a single turn last time. None of the other games I have...

Newer logs might be better. I've run various diagnostics including a command line repair tool that thinks it found and repaired something, also a driver uniinstall and re-install utility that cleaned up the registry a bit. That may have fixed my BSOD but Fields still crashes regulary with the unhand...

On the other hand, none of my other games have had this problem, so I dunno.

Thanks, Pip. i ran the test but it came back with no problems. I have had a few random BSODs recently, so perhaps it is my computer. Not srue what I could do. The microsoft support is pretty useless on BSOD really, (they've never mentioned a memory test for instance!). I've had completely different ...

I'm beginning to suspect that the sound thing was just a lucky run of several turns without a crash. However, one thing is for sure - it never crashes in battles or during the end of turn resolution phase.

Having gone to the realtek site, it seems the 2017 driver is the most up to date, cant find anything more recent than that anywhere else either. Seems odd, but there you go.

Every driver is up to date, did that first thing :-). It's still crashing though, just not as often. Wait a minute - are you saying my realtek drivers are 3 years old having checked my dxdiag? Only when I do a windows update check, it's saying the realtek drivers are the most up to date... but it is...

So I have shadows off, no anti aliasing, medium graphics, still crashing. On a whim, I disbaled the sound completely. Now I'm getting a lot less crashes. A LOT less. Still crashes from time to time, but much better. Guess it's a sound problem, so maybe focus on that.

Tried that, no good. Still crashing all the time.

Hi Pip,

Tried that - turned shadows down to low and turned anti aliasing off. Still get 2 crashes in the last 5 minutes... arg!

Ok, here you go. Good luck!

OK, missed something there, I will zip them up first.

OK, got the dxdiag but it's a txt file and it won't let me upload it. 'Invalid extension'

I'm enjoying the game, but boy is it crashing constantly, so much I can barely go on anymore. FieldOfGloryEmpires: Empires_STEAM.exe - Fatal application Exit Unhandled Exception! etc. I must have sent about 20 error logs to you guys already. Is there something obvious going on here that could be a q...

Oh, and I get the shift click thing to change facing, that's not the issue for me. I dunno, maybe I'm just being a bit thick!