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I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this problem; basic searching on The Honour Guard has revealed that. Literally, the game just crashes to desktop during the startup logos.

I'm literally open to any suggestions. I've tried a few things, to no avail.

edit for system specs:

CPU
Minimum: 2.0 GHz Dual core CPU (any Core 2 Duo or AMD X2 or better)
You Have: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
Upgrade Suggested: Unfortunately, your CPU does not meet this requirement. Click here to see some recommendations.

CPU Speed
Minimum: Info
You Have: 3.1 GHz


RAM
Minimum: 1 GB (XP), 2 GB (Vista), 2 GB (Windows 7)
You Have: 1023.5 MB
PASS

OS
Minimum: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7
You Have: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
PASS

Video Card
Minimum: 256 MB Video Card using Shader Model 3 (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 3850 and above)
You Have: GeForce 7600 GT
Upgrade Suggested: Unfortunately, your Video Card does not meet this requirement. Click here to see some recommendations.
Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Required You Have
Video RAM 256 MB 355.0 MB
Pixel Shader version 3.0 3.0
Vertex Shader version 3.0 3.0

Free Disk Space
Minimum: 20 GB space free (10 GB free after install)
You Have: 590.9 GB
PASS

Ugh, that's no good. Seemed to work fine on my PC, just make sure you update your video drivers and such.

Or play it on console

Darkvoidof40k wrote:I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this problem; basic searching on The Honour Guard has revealed that. Literally, the game just crashes to desktop during the startup logos.

I'm literally open to any suggestions. I've tried a few things, to no avail.

Not really enough information to determine. What's your system specs? My first guess is that it's RAM. But processor, graphics card, random PC silliness could all be issues.

update video drivers is the most common issue.

daedalus-templarius wrote:Ugh, that's no good. Seemed to work fine on my PC, just make sure you update your video drivers and such.

Or play it on console

Mmm.

I would if I had one.

LordofHats wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:I know I'm not the only one who has experienced this problem; basic searching on The Honour Guard has revealed that. Literally, the game just crashes to desktop during the startup logos.

I'm literally open to any suggestions. I've tried a few things, to no avail.

Not really enough information to determine. What's your system specs? My first guess is that it's RAM. But processor, graphics card, random PC silliness could all be issues.

My RAM isn't amazing, just like the rest of the PC, but it handles the Dawn of War 2 series of games well enough and should be able to eat up a demo like this with ease in my experience. I have plans to build a new quad core, but I don't want to wait until early next year before being able to play the game.

Can't really give you specs.. it's a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, 1G of RAM.. more or less a single core pushed to the limit. I'm running steam off an extension drive, which I know isn't an optimal idea, but it actually resulted in faster perfomance as I had no space left on my main drive. I see no reason for that to cause an issue.

Grundz wrote:update video drivers is the most common issue.

I've tried. No genius, but I believe mine is Nvidia. However, when attempting to do the auto-scan and update of my software it fails to do whatever it's supposed to do.

I have no ideas :(
I assume you've posted in the tech support section of the official site? They've been pretty on the ball with helping people.

This is one of the reasons I do most of my gaming on console nowadays; hate dealing with this sort of stuff.

1G of Ram might not be enough. I'm surprised that can run DoW2 to be honest.

daedalus-templarius wrote:I have no ideas :(
I assume you've posted in the tech support section of the official site? They've been pretty on the ball with helping people.

This is one of the reasons I do most of my gaming on console nowadays; hate dealing with this sort of stuff.

I have done my utmost over there to get the answers I need. Tried many suggestions that I found, nothing worked so far.

LordofHats wrote:1G of Ram might not be enough. I'm surprised that can run DoW2 to be honest.

Oh, this ol' beauty has been kicking ass for 8 years of gaming. I've yet to find a game it can't run, Fire Warrior being the exception with its outdated directx and whatnot. It's the hyperthreading that lets it do all those. No real idea what it is, but it's about as good as single cores get.

Holy gak, 1 gig? Are you running vista?

You'd seriously have like, 250meg of memory for everything else once Vista is done eating it up. Maybe your comp is just not up to snuff!

daedalus-templarius wrote:Holy gak, 1 gig? Are you running vista?

You'd seriously have like, 250meg of memory for everything else once Vista is done eating it up. Maybe your comp is just not up to snuff!

Pff, who runs vista these days? XP all the way!

It isn't a problem with what I've got set up, that's utterly established on The Honour Guard forum.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Pff, who runs vista these days?

Me

Karon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Pff, who runs vista these days?

Me

You have my sympathy.

Better than Linux.

*Ducks for cover*

Yeah, I'm guessing drivers/RAM too. 1g... can't even imagine that these days... rocking 8 myself.

Karon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Pff, who runs vista these days?

Me

No wonder he gets so annoyed on Dakka, it must take forever to load each damn page!

The only point of vista is to give you a discount on Windows 7. Honestly.. I can't even began to try and understand why they built that damn thing.

2000 is the best for just normal everyday usage.
XP is the best all round, and the best for gaming (old games, you see), but it's showing its age.
7.. heard bad things about it. It's all nice and shiny.. but I prefer what I know.

Anyway, enough of that. I'm pretty sure RAM isn't the problem guys. All it does is make everything take a lot longer to load, and cause varying levels of lag on multiplayer, depending on the game.

First go to this site and run any game:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/

copy your specs here so we can give proper advice.

Second you could run the demo in windowed mode while having task manager open. This way you can know your memory usage during the crash.

How to get windowed mode:

go to->steam->library->right click smurf game->properties-> set launch options-> type -windowed

if that doesn't work then try alt+enter or ramming windows button or ctrl alt del.

If you can't get windowed mode well gak happens.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Karon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Pff, who runs vista these days?

Me

No wonder he gets so annoyed on Dakka, it must take forever to load each damn page!

The only point of vista is to give you a discount on Windows 7. Honestly.. I can't even began to try and understand why they built that damn thing.

2000 is the best for just normal everyday usage.
XP is the best all round, and the best for gaming (old games, you see), but it's showing its age.
7.. heard bad things about it. It's all nice and shiny.. but I prefer what I know.

Anyway, enough of that. I'm pretty sure RAM isn't the problem guys. All it does is make everything take a lot longer to load, and cause varying levels of lag on multiplayer, depending on the game.

Using 7 myself, it's pretty much XP with Vista's looks. Work's like charm, and had zero compatibilty problems. Can't think of a single bad thing

illuknisaa wrote:First go to this site and run any game:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/

copy your specs here so we can give proper advice.

Second you could run the demo in windowed mode while having task manager open. This way you can know your memory usage during the crash.

How to get windowed mode:

go to->steam->library->right click smurf game->properties-> set launch options-> type -windowed

if that doesn't work then try alt+enter or ramming windows button or ctrl alt del.

If you can't get windowed mode well gak happens.

Cheers, I'll try that!

Soladrin wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Karon wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Pff, who runs vista these days?

Me

No wonder he gets so annoyed on Dakka, it must take forever to load each damn page!

The only point of vista is to give you a discount on Windows 7. Honestly.. I can't even began to try and understand why they built that damn thing.

2000 is the best for just normal everyday usage.
XP is the best all round, and the best for gaming (old games, you see), but it's showing its age.
7.. heard bad things about it. It's all nice and shiny.. but I prefer what I know.

Anyway, enough of that. I'm pretty sure RAM isn't the problem guys. All it does is make everything take a lot longer to load, and cause varying levels of lag on multiplayer, depending on the game.

Using 7 myself, it's pretty much XP with Vista's looks. Work's like charm, and had zero compatibilty problems. Can't think of a single bad thing

Seems like a good enough review, I 'spose I'll make sure to get it on my next PC.


Again, I want to thank everyone for commenting.





Automatically Appended Next Post:
Right, so I ran illuknisaa's program, and the result was a fail on minimum requirements. Never stopped this PC before, so I'm taking it with a pinch of salt.


CPU
Minimum: 2.0 GHz Dual core CPU (any Core 2 Duo or AMD X2 or better)
You Have: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz
Upgrade Suggested: Unfortunately, your CPU does not meet this requirement. Click here to see some recommendations.

CPU Speed
Minimum: Info
You Have: 3.1 GHz


RAM
Minimum: 1 GB (XP), 2 GB (Vista), 2 GB (Windows 7)
You Have: 1023.5 MB
PASS

OS
Minimum: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7
You Have: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
PASS

Video Card
Minimum: 256 MB Video Card using Shader Model 3 (NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, AMD Radeon HD 3850 and above)
You Have: GeForce 7600 GT
Upgrade Suggested: Unfortunately, your Video Card does not meet this requirement. Click here to see some recommendations.
Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Required You Have
Video RAM 256 MB 355.0 MB
Pixel Shader version 3.0 3.0
Vertex Shader version 3.0 3.0

Free Disk Space
Minimum: 20 GB space free (10 GB free after install)
You Have: 590.9 GB
PASS

Ok the game requires dual core cpu and you have only one core.

I think gpu is fine as the only difference between 8800 and 7600 is performance and not shader model as they wrong shader sometimes causes problems.

Could tell what games you can run without crashing preferably someting from Relic. Don't too much games using source engine (HL2, L4D, Portal, TF2) as they generally work "well" on single core systems.

Try running Duke Nukem demo from steam.

Have you asked on the official technical support forum yet?

Kasrkai wrote:Better than Linux.

*Ducks for cover*

I really lol'ed on that one.

step 1: grab disk
step 2: snap disk
step 3: dispose of both half disks
step 4: play GoW
step 5: realise its the same game

Stella Cadente wrote:step 1: grab disk
step 2: snap disk
step 3: dispose of both half disks
step 4: play GoW
step 5: realise its the same game

Obvious troll is obvious.

Melissia wrote:

Stella Cadente wrote:step 1: grab disk
step 2: snap disk
step 3: dispose of both half disks
step 4: play GoW
step 5: realise its the same game

Obvious troll is obvious.

obvious rip off game is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR more obvious I'm afraid, they just put marine armour over gear armour and went TADA!

Stella Cadente wrote:

Melissia wrote:

Stella Cadente wrote:step 1: grab disk
step 2: snap disk
step 3: dispose of both half disks
step 4: play GoW
step 5: realise its the same game

Obvious troll is obvious.

obvious rip off game is FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR more obvious I'm afraid, they just put marine armour over gear armour and went TADA!

Only people who haven't actually played either of the games say things like this.

Space Marine is a copy of Gears of War like Duke Nukem Forever is a copy of Call of Duty.

IE, they aren't, they're just in the same genre (3rd Person Shooter for the former and 1st Person Shooter in the latter) so ignorant people say they're similar because they, much like you, don't know any better.

Stella Cadente wrote:step 1: grab disk
step 2: snap disk
step 3: dispose of both half disks
step 4: play GoW
step 5: realise its the same game

Step 1: Stop making stupid posts.

I have enraged the marine fanboys over a silly bunch of pixels, hilarious

space marine = GoW, thats my opinion, live with it or close your eyes

Aaand he fully admits he's just trolling.

Stella Cadente wrote:I have enraged the marine fanboys over a silly bunch of pixels, hilarious

space marine = GoW, thats my opinion, live with it or close your eyes

Really? Last I checked GoW didn't have space marines in it, or Orks.

When your opinion is clearly wrong, it's not valid.

That's like saying Dawn of War and Starcraft are the same, because you build buildings and units in it.

So perhaps instead of acting childish and talking about enraging fanboys, you can educate yourself instead of posting ignorant non sense.

Cut the off-topic and just report the troll next time.

illuknisaa wrote:Ok the game requires dual core cpu and you have only one core.

I think gpu is fine as the only difference between 8800 and 7600 is performance and not shader model as they wrong shader sometimes causes problems.

Could tell what games you can run without crashing preferably someting from Relic. Don't too much games using source engine (HL2, L4D, Portal, TF2) as they generally work "well" on single core systems.

Try running Duke Nukem demo from steam.

I've run the Nukem demo before, works fine. From what I do know, my PC is about as top of the line as single cores get, which is why it manages things like DoW2.

Melissia wrote:Have you asked on the official technical support forum yet?

Yes, I have.