Is the game working for you?

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I'm interested in seeing the PC Specs of our Political Machine 2008 userbase. Whether the game works perfectly for you or not, please stop over to this thread and let us know what your specs are.

Thanks,

~C
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
The game is not working for me at all and I need some help!!!

I am having issues trying to play too and I am stumped. I don't know what to do. The game is just not working.

The game starts. Allows me to create a player or choose a player. When I click start and it starts loading a head to head match between me and another candidate, it goes to black screen and I get a windows program failure error.



Error Signature:

AppName: polmachine2008.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 ModName: unknown
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 5f70614d



Technical Info About The Error:








My Computer Specs:

IBM Thinkpad T43
Intel Pentium M Processor 1.86GHz
2GB of Memory
ATI Mobility Radeon X300 128MB Video Card
MS Windows XP SP3



What in the world is going on?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Okay, technical stuff isn't wanting to paste. Sorry.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Here is what the Event Log Says:

Description:

Faulting application polmachine2008.exe, version 1.0.0.0, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x5f70614d.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Data in Bytes:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 70 6f 6c ure pol
0018: 6d 61 63 68 69 6e 65 32 machine2
0020: 30 30 38 2e 65 78 65 20 008.exe
0028: 31 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 1.0.0.0
0030: 69 6e 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f in unkno
0038: 77 6e 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 wn 0.0.0
0040: 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 .0 at of
0048: 66 73 65 74 20 35 66 37 fset 5f7
0050: 30 36 31 34 64 0d 0a 0614d..
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I am going to try and give you the Technical Info again:



Reply #6 from PolMach Forums Top
Kriznak,

It's better if you start your own post about the problem you are having describing what happens and when.  More people will read it that way and be able to help you.   Also post the contents of your debug.err file into your post after you describe the problem.  This file has specific information that could help us track down the problem.  The debug.err file can be opened with notepad, and it is located here: "Documents\My Games\PolMachine2008\debug.err"

Thanks,
~C
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks for your suggestion. I just created a post with the debug info.

Post Title:
I can't play the game! It isn't working.

-Kriznak8
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Hi,

I've posted this elsewhere but if you use Riva Tuner to force shader 2.0 the games no longer crashes. This works with my Nvidia card but I have yet to test on an ATI card. Hope it helps.

Medicanman.....
Reply #9 from PolMach Forums Top

Medicanman,

We are working on an update that should let you be able to use shader 3.0 and not have to force shader 2.0.  There were some cases where when running in shader 3 mode would run out of memory, so we've cut down a lot on how much memory is used.

We'll be releasing it as soon as it is ready.