Technical problems and solutions!!! (all problems and errors are stored here)

[xavion]

This post is taken from the Wives/Children bonuses thread. I have the same exact problem as the person who posted this.

Originally Posted by Bonar

There's a pirate beauty that you can be your wife after you kill the Kraken (Quite tough if you're not prepared) and Lucky James. Don't what the bonus is, because my game crash whenever I try to finish that quest (this happen after I kill both Kraken and James then seeing her). Try seeing her FIRST after you kill either the Kraken or James.

I have the digital download version from Atari's website. I can add that I have tried killing the Kraken, talking to Mirabella, then killing James and talking to Mirabella again... it still results in a crash to desktop. No error message is given.

[Koden]

I just bought the download version of the game and my activation code worked fine, but I can't get it to run.. I read through all of these posts and found several other people receiving the same error, but because they had old machines, but mine should definitely be able to handle this game.. Any help would be really appreciated! I just tried running the demo instead and received the exact same error.

Error message:

.\.BMRender\rmode.cpp(1583): DirectX call failed: -1, -1,D3DERR_INVALIDCALL (The method call is invalid. For example, a method's parameter may not be a valid pointer)

My computer:

Windows Vista Home Premium
AMD Phenom 9500 - quad core 2200mhz
3 gig RAM
DirectX 9c (also tried 10)
ATI Radeon HD 3650 - 1 gig built in memory

[Egoo]

hey guys its me again i thought my problem with video card and i now thinking too boy new one wich one off this will work fine for the game NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 6200 or NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600 GS witch one is beter ?

[knoxchris]

Same Mirabella issue here. Atari downloaded version as well, not sure if that matters.

Here is a SS of the reply selected which results in a crash to desktop (no error). After killing James and Kraken.

[hawker]

Originally Posted by Egoo

hey guys its me again i thought my problem with video card and i now thinking too boy new one wich one off this will work fine for the game NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 6200 or NVIDIA GEFORCE 7600 GS witch one is beter ?

Both of them are terrible for games, but if you like torturing yourself instead of spending a mere $150 on an nVidia 8800GT/9800GTX or Ati HD4850 card that would run the game excellently, then the 7600GS would be a marginally better choice.

[luckenbill56]

Hello Egoo and everyone,

Ladies and gentleman. How does a person explain all of these technical problems? Try this. I installed the demo on a higher end PC that runs with no difficulty, in my opinion a more graphic intensive game titled "The Witcher." However, King's Bounty would not run on the same pc. See entering the first portal crash in another thread. I gave up.

With time on my hands I installed the DEMO again on a slower PC/CPU that runs at 2.40GHz and has the following older video card Card name: 128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 TX w/TV-Out. Lo and behold the DEMO runs fine with no difficulties and motivated me to purchase the DVD game from J&R Music at Amazon.com. J&R is located in New York,

A word to the wise. I am still concerned if the complete game when installed will work? However, others on this forum have installed the game running on a slower PC than the one above and the game runs very well. Thus, what does this all mean? I suggest before you run out and purchase a new video card. You may be a abit hasty. The game sounds to me as if it has been released with the requirements set far too high with the new Vista machine being the baseline target and King's Bounty does not require such a high end machine. It happens. Hopefully a patch and my experience with the game will continue to be on the positive side. However, when I install the complete game we'll see?

Be sure and read some of the PC specs on other threads that have been successful running the game. They are eye openers.

[phoenixreborn]

I'm pretty sure J and R doesn't ship outside the US.

So you got it running on your older machine? Or you don't have the game yet?

[luna_park]

Hi guys

I live in Australia and just downloaded the demo from a local client. I've played it and loved it but not sure how to buy it, it asks me if i want to activate it b4 entering demo. It would be great if i just have to buy the serial number but where? i wouldnt want to download anything since i use dial-up, i asked my brother to download the demo for me. Anyways if u can tell me an aussie where to buy and activate the full game that'll be great.

Oh, i did have a little problem when playing the game. Every 30secs or so the game would slow down for a few seconds. It was getting very annoying so i put all the graphics down low and that didnt help. I updated to the latest nvidea drivers and started reading these forums. I finally diabled one of the cpus so only one was being used and that seemed to help. When you boot up the game alt-tab then alt-tab-delete, go to prosesses find kb.exe and right click it, select affinity then uncheck all but one cpu. It has helped me with other games i thought i'd give it a shot