Anno 1602 crashed during battle under windows xp

[MysticFist]

After having tried several solution nothing seems to solve the crashed during battles in Anno 1602.
I tried to find a patch but it seems there is no patch because i have the Dutch Gold Edition version of EW Games.
It's pretty annoying that the game always crash when my ship is attacked by another ship.
For the rest the game seems to run smootly.

Some info:
Windows Xp Home
AMD Athlon 3200
1 GB Ram
Hercule 3D Prophet 9800 XT
Latest DirectX

Any suggestions?

[Sir Henry]

Hello MysticFist, and welcome to the board! :smile:

Most probably these crashes have to do with the video that is being played when you are attacked.

Try to lower the hardware acceleration of your graphics card, or switch it off.

If that does not help you can still switch off the videos completely.

[Gary]

It could also be the Sound card hardware acceleration, that was the problem I was having with XP, try lowering the Video acceleration first as Sir Henry said....if that does not work try lowering the sound card acceleration. I had to lower mine to *no acceleration* no other setting would work for me.

[waywardsoul]

i tried both of these the Sound card hardware acceleration and the Video acceleration but i still crashed shortly after a battle, then i found out you dont need to have the CD in for the game to work and i havent crashed since