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Gamingnewslink.com – Solutions and Fixes for Warhammer Dawn of War 2 errors, crashes, and installation problems
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Problem #1 : Dawn of War 2 Error “xlive.dll not found error”
Solution A. (As posted by Maniac) :
1) Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Uninstall the “Microsoft Games for Windows LIVE Redistributable” if it is installed
2) Download and install the 2.0 LIVE Redistributable from “http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a7f4478-7a4e-4f89-a88c-319972839793&DisplayLang=en”
Solution B : If you encounter this error right after installing Warhammer Dawn of War 2, try to restart your computer first because there are known issues with Games For Live not working properly when it has been installed from a previous title (especially Steam titles)
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Problem #2 : Dawn of War 2 frequent and random crashes after missions (Windows Vista Users)
Solution A : Change your “Texture Details” and the “Effects Fidelity” to medium and see if it helps solving the problem. (This is a temporarily fix, Relic is aware of the problem and working on it!)
Hopfully this gets fixed in a future patch… though im wondering why this went through the QA’s nose though=\
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Solution B : Patch is out! patch up to 1.1.1 or w/e the latest version is. If you installed Dawn of War 2 via Steam, Steam should do this automatically for you
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Problem # 3 : Dawn of War 2 Crashes on Startup
Solution A : Reinstall Dawn of War 2 and Games for Windows Live, as well as other redist packages on the support folder (located inside the DoW2 folder)
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Problem # 4 : Dawn of War 2 error “An error occured while starting the game”
Solution A (As posted by Shepherd) : “these people really are as evil as i thought – Its because i wasn’t properly signed in with my windows live id (even though every time you start the game it says “You are signed in”). I need to open then windows live tool bar and try and sign in there.”
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Problem #5 : Crash before mission starts
Solution A : Try to reduce the graphics setting to Low or Medium
If this fixes the game, try updating DoW 2 to the latest version as well as your video card drivers then try the higher graphics settings again
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Hello
I have a problem in the campaign im on day 20 and have completed ALL MISSIONS! on the 2 planets but the planet maridian (I think thats how to spell) dose not show up on my galactic map if some 1 cose plz help me on getting round this plz let me know
Thank You.
Every time I try to do the Close the gate at angel forge mission, after i take 3 generators, the game crashes and tells me i dont have enough space in my temp folder -_-…..
I have 220 gigs free so…..
I want to beat this mission, help me T-T
#1 : RyanSpike,
i haven’t gone that far in the game yet 
#2 : RyanForsy, you getting this error “Please verify that there is enough space in your TEMP folder.”?
Right click “My Computer” > click “advanced” > click “advanced” > click “environment variables”
then go to the path specified under “TEMP” and “TMP” and delete everythng there.
by chance are you both the same Ryans?
I get up to day 16, ready to attack the wraithlord on Merdian, but after the little cinematic the game crashes, i hear shirt, but no screen. Also, it randomly crashes at points.
Hi, I’ve installed the game on a mate’s computer, just to try it out. Now i want to install it on mine, but after several minutes on getting the message “installing required components… this may take a few minutes” it just shuts down. Is there anyway way of installing it on my computer?
Any information would be much appreciated.
Hi,
I have the same problem as RyanForsy, I followed the above instructions and still got the error message saying “Please verify that there is enough space in your TEMP folder.”, is there anything more i can do?
Thanks
when i got DOW2 first the disk could not be read in the drive properly then i finaly got it to run and installed but every time i play the game is so slow but only once the mission starts, i have turned all the graphics settings down and and got thte best performace out of the computer which is only new and its specs are well able to handle the game but still its like playing in slow motion
Thanks for this great guide! I download the Dawn of War 1.1.1 patch and it fixed the pre and post-missions crashes for me. I also now get this neat Squad summary after missions that i didn’t get before.
To anyone having the TEMP folder problem, what I did was change the effects fidelity and texture back down to high from ultra that I first changed in the config file, now instead of random fps drops and the TEMP error I’m getting a smooth 60fps throughout.
update on crashing after missions : seems like the dawn of war 2 1.1.1 patch deoesn’t fix the crashing after all
Hello againg
i would just like to say arther is on day 16! and all ready on planet merdian i do not understand is it a bug or lack of memory i have 12G left on my c/ drive witch ive downloaded it on. If eny 1 says try and reinstall :S theres no point becouse ive tryed it lol
Ryan have you tried updating your copy of DoW? if you torrented it like me you can DL a patch for pirated Dawn of War at demonoid.com (just copy the contents of the patches to your DoW folder.. works for cracked steam installs too)
btw how do i unsubscribe to this page? i prefer visiting sites instead of constantly being mailed about new comments
btw patch is 130 + mb (1.1.0 is around 110mb and 1.1.1 is about 10mb, install the 1.1.0 DOW 2 patch first before 1.1.1)
I have fixed the RyanForsy TEMP problem by decreasing the graphics level. It works. THANK YOU.
Yes i have and my game is a retail i am able to go online and do EVRYTHING! exept for half the campaign lol i dnt know whats happend but im thinknig of starting a new campaign and seeing if it happends againg
i have same problem as you Ryan,i cleaned both planets and now i need to go to Meridian but theres no planet on map,and no missions on planets…
My son has this game & we have spent 3 day trying to “launch” it from Steam without sucess. Can anyone help please.
ive checked the relic forums and these problems similar to mark h and ryan is experienced by many
i’ll keep an eye on a patch or update from relic, i hope they fix this game-breaking bug
must’ve suck for you guys who bought the game though, no offense meant…. if this is how they treat paying costumers then us (not including some of you guys who bought the game) are their insta-karma
Installed from DVD, installed Games for Windows Live and created an account. Registered the DOW2 game to my steam account, steam updated the installation. Double click the icon to launch it and I get a pop up box that says ‘Launching Dawn of War 2′, this disappears then absolutely nothing. I have tried following the tips above with no joy. I am running on Windows XP SP2.
I have this problem that my game just randomly slows down and starts lagging pretty much and I’m pretty sure that its not my PC, as my PC is pretty capable of running the game.
Any idea how to get around that? It is kinda annoying >.<
Help is appreciated.
mine just crashed after about 5 mins, dont matter if it loading a mission, on the main menu etc. quits and says Display Driver stopped working and has recovered. whats wrong there?
My game is retail and when I start the installation it will work to the point where i installs the components and after a few minutes it says “The installation of the game failed to complete. Please try again.” My specs pass the requirements so I don’t think that is the problem.
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lol cheers hola if by eny chance eny 1 finds a solution plz email me at ryan_aran@hotmail.co.uk and no offence taking lol just very! anoying and i only got to use my dred for 2 missions lol
P.S
Ill be keeping an eye on this page if u are not able to email me.
Thank You
Ryan ever tried…. starting over?
it’s better than waiting for a patch. but if i ever come across a fix for that bug i’ll email yah. btw how do i unsubscribe again?
k im trying that atm but not up 2 that part yet lol gona try it tonight :S lol hope it works
so anyone figure out the meridian glitch? i cant see it either on my map
plz help <3en the game so far besides that
well not really the meridian glitch but a map glitch i cant find map glitch where you cant see any planets besides the first two… if anyone has an idea besides reinstalling would be nice
thank you
Well reinstalling isnt what i had in mind—-1. It takes forever over STEAM! 2. It might not even work becouse hundreds of people have the exact same problem its just a matter of time now for a fix
Thank You
Every time I play the angel forge mission I play for a random amount of time then the game freezes. Sometimes if I wait long enough the game minimizes to an oddly coloured version of my desktop with an error message saying that my video card is not acting normally. Then I have to reset to get anything done. I’ve tried turning the settings up and down. I have the latest drivers for my video card. It happens everytime I cannot finish the mission before the crash occurs and I have not had a problem with any other mission.
Hey guys, since the new feb 23rd patch, my game does not load, it just says Crash Report, wtf do i do? i run it through steam, i re downloaded it, it worked before taht patch now its all shit, please help
heyy guys im having trouble with my dawn of war 2 game i installed everyhting and i double click to play the game. then it comes up with a error saying
failed to find surported hardware rending devices. ensure that ur system meets the minuim requirments ofr dawn of war 2. verify that directx properly installed and that u have the latest drivers for ur system
can someone plz help me with this error i really want to play the game thx
Hi, I’ve been having the ’183′ error after almost all missions. Meaning it crashes to desktop. But it’s getting worse now, I don’t know the name of the mission but it’s at the second planet, I have to protect a few generators. It crashes with a freeze that ends up locking up my computer. Tried 4-5 times. now i have enough… my pc is running sli 4gb of ram, quad core on windows 7. None of my other games crash.
On the relic forum they actually blame microsoft for the crashes, what a load of bullcrap, like Crysis or World in Conflict can run alright but DoW is too much for Vista/W7 to handle. Clowns that cant code if you ask me. Shame. SHAME.
getting black screen on startup, sound runs, fps counter shows the screen/resolution and input is fine, theres just nothing on the screen. minimizing to desktop and tabbing back in dosent work.
Hi guys, I’ve been having this problem since the Beta, I’ll be able to play the game for a few minutes, then suddenly it will become incredibly laggy and crash for no apparent reason, forcing me to reboot. This is really odd as it’s even happened to me when I’ve alt tabbed out to the desktop to close it down by ctrl alt del. I wondered if it was something about the game creating a memory hole as it seems to have a lot of memory related issues, I’m on XP x64 btw.
After mucking around with this one for a while (3 hours), I decided the best solution is to put it in the bin where it belongs. I say **** you Relic. How many times are you going to patch this **** before it works?
So comes a point when you just say **** you Relic, keep your shitty game and I’m sure as hell glad I didn’t pay for this. Sure goes to show how it is worth trying before buying.
I want my 3.6g of data back.
From my specs, it should work fine:
XP SP 2, AMD DC 4400, 2 gig ram, 9800 gtx+, SB XFI.
Every time I played game for 10 min both game and pc become halt.I have a pc that twice more powerful than game requested.My OS Windows Xp S3 and I started to anoyed cause I couldnt get a respond from THQ help section for hours.
/Jodie G. has been assigned your inquiry/
I guess she is sleeping very soundly.
When i start up Dawn of war 2 in window format or in any resolution all i get is a blank screen but sound and all of my drivers are up to date, even left 4 dead works on my pc, i’ve informond Relic but they aint replied so they dnt give a shit lol and i got
ATI Raiden HD 4850
Vista 32 Bit
AMD Phenom 9950 Quad – Core Processor 2.60 GHz each all 4 make 6.68 GHz
Please help, if you know how to fix this issue please email me j_m_punea6@hotmail.com
I have the same angel forge problem man. i mean “!%§?! game crashes all the time..and after i have read all your xperiences with the patches i dont feel like downloading any of em….. damn relic steam flipin sh´´ it is really, really frustrating…game: 89/100
Consumer xpirience: -100
Dawn of war 2 only works once per start up and if i do story and quit to play online or LAN it freezes, also if i quit the game then start it back up it will freeze at the main menu. so if i want to play it after quitting i have to restart my comp, is there anything i can do to stop what its doing??
Okay so i installed the game on my notebook. My video card is supposed to support it but it still lags. On the erad me it says to have a version 180 geforce driver but the newest driver available for a laptop is 179.48. If there are any solutions please help me.
I play the first 20 minut them go to crash error is
Fatal to creat a dump file error (183) i check my DXdiag
to next Direct X i not found any problem my laptop is
2.0 Duo core ,2GB ram, 80 hard drive and Video cards is
Ati Mobile Radeon X1600
i have other games like Dawn of war,World of war, SST, Mechwarrior and classic Starcraft i not have crash problems
I have a Problem aswell when i load up Dow2 and when it gets to tht THQ bit it Freezez But u can still here the Sound i have re-installed the game but still does the same thing. So if any1 has any suggestions plz lets me no on my emial thx. Brotton_bacon@hotmail.com
hey evry1 i installed the game then the 24 hour long steam patch then i get on the menue and if i stay on the game 4 more han 2 mins it crashes, when i try a skirmish..it crashes, when i finish watching the intro cimenmatic 2 the 1st mission..it crashes. the it closes and the relic crash report comes up how the**** do i get 2 play the****in thing?
plz help!
ive installed the game
and everything worked fine with the instalation from the cd
the only problem i am having is that when i click on the play game from eaither the steam or the icon on my desktop it says its gona launch the game which it never does, i keep trying to start the game but nothing happens. the game was installed properly on my computer and when i click on steam to lauch the game it doesnt do anything ive trie re-intaling the game but i still get the same proble.
can someone help me
i dunno m8 but im so desperate 2 use some devastators now im gettin really pissed lol PLZ ANYONE HELP!(thats relavent) lol
my DOW 2 crashes after loading about 40% of Day 8: Defence of Argus gate, really annoying as its so soon in the game and im really eager to finish it, any help towards fixing it will be greatly appreciated,
cheers in advance
Loui
at lest u can play a mission……….. i cant do anything but read the error report. and now when i click on start it says game unable 2 launch please try again later! this is so annoyin! plz help me… anyone. plz im desperate now and soon i might sell it.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am having problems actually downloading stream for Dawn of war II.
As I try to install the destination folder C\Program Files\Common Files\System\
I get the message – Folder path contains unkown files- can anybody please help,
Thanks
when i try loading up Dow2 the launch screen comes up and when it disappears nothing happens the game just doesnt load been trying to fix it for 2 days
Anybody help plz :S
I get an error when trying to launch the campaign mode. it says “error starting game” or something like that. I have seen that some people have gotten around this by reducing the graphics quality.
Dual core 3.2
4 gig of mem
Nvidia GT7950 video card
The system played fine for quite a while, and then I came home to play and it just wont open. I have updated video card drivers with no luck.
Any help would be great.
Thanks y’all
yeah i have the same problem as Tim does…i was playing the game and my computer crashed and ever since then whenever i start campaign mode it says “an error has occured starting the game” and its only when i start the campaign…i have a retail version just wondering if anyone can help me out
Thanks
When ever I open up the game the intro video comes in and after its done it says loading and them it crashes. I don’t know what the problem is?
Also getting the “an error occured while starting the game” message. Installed from retail this morning, played the campaign for an hour, came back in the evening and now i’m getting this error and cant play the campaign. I’m guessing it’s probably due to a bug with a patch or something? I’m gonna try updating drivers, if that doesn’t work I may reinstal and see if the same things happens again after the game updates.
If that is the issue, i’d suggest reinstalling and then turning off auto-update via steam. But of course then you cant play online.
This game and any other that use Steam are a waste of time, and money. First off, when i got DOW2, i tried to install but it wouldn’t work. I later find out that the game was released 24 hrs early in Australia. Second, it took forever to download the game, even when using hi speed broadband. Thirdly, the game played until day 2 when Steam decided to start downloading a pacth/update which returned me to my desktop and quit the game. The update was about halfway through when it automaticly reset my computer causing it to crash as it would read my boot system or something. This happen every time an update happened and even when i tried to uninstall the game soo i was left with no choice but to wipe my computer clean and start afresh.
Another game that uses Steam i am having trouble with is Empire total war.
GAMES USING STEAM ARE A WASTE OF MONEY AND THE DEVELOPERS OF GAMES CONSIDERING USING IT IN THE FUTURE SHOULD READ SOME OF THESE COMPLAINTS AND THINK TWICE.
(I hope one of them isn’t Starcraft 2)
Whenever I try to start Dawn of war 2 it will start installing Games for Windows – Live and then after step 3 is complete the game doesn’t start and nothing happens. How can this be fixed?
Hey. Problem #2 persists for my duo core toshiba despite the patch and lowering all graphic options. My video card is supposedly up to par.
Am I missing something?
-R
ps. Hey i noticed that after the patch a few days ago the graphics look a bit better, but I didnt raise anything. WTF?
Also, before I switched the levels, it crashed after 1 level of play. Where as after I lowered them I could get through about 1.5 levels before it crashed.
Now, after this patch, it crashes after 1 level.
Fucking Gamesworkshop has a tendancy to push shit and fuck its customers. I hope they didn’t also screw around the people with ultra-graphic capable comps.
I am having trouble getting the game to run quickly. It is constantly lagging and I have set the game graphics and my nvidia graphics to improve performance as much as possible. All detail is removed in the hope to speed up the game.
My pc hardware meets all the standard requirement to run the game, and then some. But it is still slow. Even the latest nvidia driver didn’t help.
I just don’t know what to do at this stage
hi!! i have the retail version of dawn of war 2 i managed to intall it and update it with no problems but now that everything is done whenever i launch the game a message from steam pops up saying that it is launching DOW2 and when the little message goes away nothing happens , can anybody help me with this problem
my system is above the standard requirments for running the game
and also is there any way of playing the single player campaign without being connected to steam or the internet
thankz
it would be nice, you would think that they’d actually try and play the game on all windows to see if this crap happened. whenever i get to the menu screen (after the countless reinstallations) it says ‘link your live account in order to create a save’ – i click it and then it laggs horrifically and decides to crash. why couldnt they have just stuck with the other dawn of war/ expansion packs simplicity of just installing a game? at the very least they should bring out a second version of this game which follows that format – instead of a game which wants you to sign up to 3000 different things at once resulting in crashes. and i’m sorry but vista is the updated version of windows? why the hell did they decide to obviouisly design it for windows XP because it seems less people are having any major problems on those operating systems.
if it had said ‘yh this doesnt support vista’ – which is doesnt then i wouldnt have got. when i’ve got like triple they specified system requirements it’s kind of pathetic to be honest.
I Have this CRASH:
17:46:16.15 dow2 started at 2009-03-04 17:46
17:46:16.15 OS NT 6.0, 3071MB Physical Memory, 1836 Physical Available, 1309 Virtual Available
17:46:16.15 RUN OPTIONS: -logs
17:46:16.15 WORKING DIR: ‘c:\program files\steam\steamapps\common\dawn of war 2′
17:46:16.15 USER: ’2142cartman’
17:46:16.18 MOD — Initializing mod ‘DOW2′, version ’1.0′, locale ‘english’.
17:46:16.21 MOD MANAGER — ‘sound:english’: Unable to mount archive ‘GameAssets\Locale\English\English_EldarMPSpeech_DELTA.sga’!
17:46:16.21 Failed to mount GameAssets\Locale\English\English_EldarMPSpeech_DELTA.sga
17:46:16.21 MOD MANAGER — ‘sound:english’: Unable to mount archive ‘GameAssets\Locale\English\English_OrkMPSpeech_DELTA.sga’!
17:46:16.21 Failed to mount GameAssets\Locale\English\English_OrkMPSpeech_DELTA.sga
17:46:16.22 MOD MANAGER — ‘sound:english’: Unable to mount archive ‘GameAssets\Locale\English\English_SpaceMarineMPSpeech_DELTA.sga’!
17:46:16.22 Failed to mount GameAssets\Locale\English\English_SpaceMarineMPSpeech_DELTA.sga
Unable to mount all archives. Is your .module file out of sync with your locale.ini file?
– FATAL EXIT –
d:\dow2-patch\src\game\gamemod\mod\modmanager.cpp-133 !:
help me!!!!
tank you
I start up dawn of war 2 it gose to a black screen and says failed to set up a working
i set up dawn of war 2 installed fine installed of steam fine updated fine i press launch game and it comes up with – Graphics Setup – Failed to set up a working mode for the rendering device.This could be due to having a old version of direct X but when i chek what directX i have it says 10 ?
I’m unable to change the graphics for dow 2, it’s stuck on the ***** low graphics some only 1 is on medium and I am unable to change any of the graphics!!!! plz help my comp is above recommended I’m running xp sp2.
ok idea……… heres what we do. BOMB THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT PLACE WITH CALLS! lol.
to be honest i think we should just give up and trade em in 4 sumin beta like end war. gw shouldnt have build a whole new driver. JUST STICK WITH THE OLD ******* 1! really, i reckon we should just give up!
The fight must go on!
Hi I have been playing DOW2 since it was released and I have already beaten the campaign once plus I play online once in a while. I have a pretty decent rig and I played on all the settings maxed out until today when suddenly the game slows down to an almost unplayable rate and I see these yellow and blue circles on the screen around the characters as if they were surrounded by an aura or something to that effect. I have a Geforce GTX 280 graphics card. What I don’t understand is that I have been playing with the settings maxed our since the game was released, plus I tweaked the graphics in the Nvidia control panel and maxed everything our. Other games play fine so I know it has to do with DOW. I set everything on default in the Nvidia control panel plus I put all my settings on low in the game and it runs fine. I can even put the settings on medium and its perfect but when I crank it up to high settings, it starts slowing down bigtime. I don’t understand can anyone shed light on this sudden change of performance?
I have FIXED the unchangeable graphics problem for Xp sp2.
While stuffing around with the dow 2 files and such I discovered that you can change the graphic higher if you simply go into your Dawn of War 2 dir, go to drivers and open either ati or nvidia depends on your graphics card should open with note pad or any equivalent, then find your graphics card model. And next to the 0 replace with 1,2 or 3.
1=Medium settings
2=High settings
3=ultra settings
this is mine:
; geforce 6xlow (6600):
begin device 0x00F1 0x00F2 0x00F3 0x00F4 0×0140 0×0141 0×0142 0×0143 0×0145 0×0147 0×0161 0×0162
usePostProcessing 0
useHDRRendering 0
perflevel 0
Changed to:
; geforce 6xMed (6600):
begin device 0x00F1 0x00F2 0x00F3 0x00F4 0×0140 0×0141 0×0142 0×0143 0×0145 0×0147 0×0161 0×0162
usePostProcessing 1
useHDRRendering 1
perflevel 1
*REMEMBER* ONLY CHANGE THE 0 VALUES TO 1,2 OR 3
Hope this helps /
Hi, I installed Warhammer 40k DoW2 but everytime i try to launch it, my screen turns off and says mode not supported,what do I do???
pls HELP ME!
Whenever i try to launch DoW2, there comes a steam-frame up saying it’s launching. Yet the frame dissapears in a second and nothing happens. I already tried reïnstalling (twice!) yet it doesnt fix it. plz help me
i set up dawn of war 2 installed fine installed of steam fine updated fine i press launch game and it comes up with – Graphics Setup – Failed to set up a working mode for the rendering device.This could be due to having a old version of direct X but when i chek what directX i have it says 10 ?
Graphics setup? never happened to me, any way try and go into your dow 2 dir, go to installs and start the DXSETUP let it fully install. dow 2 has no dx 10 features as far as I know.
Make sure you at least meet the minimum requirements for the game. Is your graphics card supported? They have a list of supported graphics card in the “drivers” folder in the dow 2 dir.
DOW2 requires a graphics card that is shader 3.0 capable if your gfx card does not support that it probably is the reason for your dilemma.
“# Silvermoore — March 20, 2009 @ 4:19 am
Whenever i try to launch DoW2, there comes a steam-frame up saying it’s launching. Yet the frame dissapears in a second and nothing happens. I already tried reïnstalling (twice!) yet it doesnt fix it. plz help me
”
Have you installed a legit copy of dow 2. Are you running steam in offline mode?
I put the Dow2 disk into my external DVD and click to install
when i agree to licenses and terms it says
“installing temporary components.. this may take a few minutes…”
but then a box comes up saying “installation failed”
As far as i know my system is up to date enough but this error tells me nothing!
i payed 83$ for tha game and cant get it to work
help please
hey guys me and my brother are trying to lan, and play against the computer. the game runs fine on both computers in single player mode, but as soon as we lan my brothers computer shuts down mid game???
hi im on xp and my dawn of war 2 keeps doing the ‘installing required components for about and hour’. ??? HELP!
Graphic Setip error occur with me.
Here are my spec for my laptop
* ACER
Extensa 5420
* AMD Turion 64×2 Mobile Technology TL-58 (1.9GHz)
* ATi Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT Video Chipset(256MB Discrete Ram)
* 2GB DDR2 Ram
* 250GB (5400rpm) S-ATA HDD (dual drives)
* 15.4″ WXGA CrystalBrite LCD (1280 x 800)
* DVD-Super Multi Optical Drive
* Media Card Reader (SD, Memory Stick, Pro, xD)
* DVI-D output
* S-Video output
* D-sub output
* 4 USB 2.0 ports
* Firewire
* Infrared port
* Analog modem
* Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
I don’t understand why i doesn’t work plz help
Update your Direct X, it’s in install folder your gfx card must support shaper 3.0 I don’t know if it does but should since it’s part of the 2000 series. Try Ctrl + alt + del”ing and hitting ok on the error message then start up game again and if you crossed your fingers it should work.
“shaper 3.0″ I meant to say Shader 3.0
i habe obught DoW2 and i installed it.every time i try to launch it it says “failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. ensure that yout system meets minimum requiements for dawn of war2.verify that directx is properly installed and that you have the latest drivers for your system.” i have the windows vista brand new computer not even a year old.i checked to make sure that direct x is installed. i downloaded driver detective to find out what is out of date but it u gotta pay for it to actualy do what it says. i know that directx 10 is installed properly but how and where do i get the latest drivers for my system???!!! help me!!email me at guitarz1130@yahoo.com if u have the answers
After installed the game and start, which have a error “Failed to set a working mode for the rendering device. This could be due to having an old version of Directx installed.” and I had already updated to DirectX End-User Runtime Version: 9.26.1590.
What can I do?
Many Thanks!
Jason — March 21, 2009 @ 3:22 am
“# Silvermoore — March 20, 2009 @ 4:19 am
Whenever i try to launch DoW2, there comes a steam-frame up saying it’s launching. Yet the frame dissapears in a second and nothing happens. I already tried reïnstalling (twice!) yet it doesnt fix it. plz help me
”
Have you installed a legit copy of dow 2. Are you running steam in offline mode?
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I have a legal game, and im running steam online
“ok here is what i did to make my game launch. go here http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/d…displaylang=en
and download microsoft live, the error i was getting is that it was unable to launch the auxilary installer, this is becuase
Xliveredist.msi was missing, i found this out tring to launch the auxilary install directly from the disk, so i assumed xlive
was the microsoft live gaming thing, i tried running the xlive file on the disk and there was a missing dll so i got a fetal error and the instalation stoped.
by downloading microsoft live gaming the problem is resolved because the Dll that is apperantly missing on the disk is in the downloaded copy. after
installing the download launch your game from the steam menu, it will take a minute because it has to run the aux installer, but
you should no longer get the error because your microsoft live gaming is installed and it is required for the auxilerey installer to run.” Quoted from http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/2577.aspx
Hope this helps the infinite start up issue.
Crash Crash and Many Crash i can finish one game on 5.
core 2 duo 2.66, geforce 9600gt, 2 go, it s not a hardware problem i think.
I ve reinsatalled whole the game with correctly patch one after one but, CRASH AGAIN
try to desactivate all graphics options and play medium but the result is the same. CRASH CRASH and RECRASH
Someone has maybe a miracle solution. Maybe the next patch but i m sure the problem will not resolve by relic
Thx To answer if you have an alternative solution
I can’t even get into the game because I can’t install .Net Framework 3 and Microsoft refuses to help me. They keep referring me to their FAQ when I keep telling them I did everything in the FAQ. I know this isn’t your problem but PLEASE do not tell me to take this up with Microsoft! I’ve tried and they are useless!
installed steam, dow II and eeverything. still crashes on startup reinstaling and what have you does nothing except waste most of my valuable CoD time (atleast three hours). godamn ot guys get it together.
Hello
Just wondering if any1 found the problem, where they cant see the planest meridian :/
Thanks
i have been playing pc games for, well a lot of years, never have i been so constanly screwed by an instalation, this whole process, is terrible and i hope the people that thought of doing this, catch a fatal sexualy transmitted disease from their dog
can anyone send me the link to the windows vista patch to lower the memory useage cuz i have restarted my steam an it didnt download the update so where can i get it or can u send it to smokebear187 at yahoo or let me know how to set the game settings without startin the game
blue screen every 6 or 7 games with win vista 64 bit , crash report very often … think that THQ and RELIC had have been w8ing a little bit to release this game !
hi i installed the game and updated and whatnot but when i run launch the game it says “could not set a redering level. this could be to an outdatewd Direct X version.” i have check direct x and everything i could think of yet to no avail. could someone possibly help me??
my friend and i hooked up to play a lan game. during this my computer shut down during gameplay. now it shuts down my computer all the time during the main screen.
hey i have a problem the same as some people here on the fourm i start up my game and there is just a black screen i can hear the sound tho just wondering if any has a fix thank if email me at ryankitching_2k6@hotmail.com
Ummm im having the trouble in which when i try to start this bloody game up, up comes this message “failed to set a wrking mode for the rendering device. This could be due to having a old version of direct x installed” WHY?!?!?!?!?! i spent $100 on this game and all i want is it to work….ive tried every rational thing i can think of….downloading, checking, searching and more checking! some1 PLEASE HELP ME ON THIS!!! my email is jesingleton@mgs.vic.edu.au
hi guys, im having a problem with starting my game. i have installed everything needed, steam, games for windows live, and direct x. i have a system capable of running the game so that shouldnt be the issue. what my problem is, is when i open it from the shortcut, it loads the nvidia screen, then it loads the dow2 screen with the loading bar at the bottom of the screen, when it loads, the sounds plays for about half a second then i get the message on my screen: dow2 has stopped working. its a windows message so i dunno if its how its been installed or anything, but ive reinstalled 3 times and its never worked. this is the furthest its ever gotten and im not up for installing it again if its not going to work. any ideas?
doesnt matter, i found that installing the new patch that i got it to work, i will report back if there are any difficulties with the game later on
I am stuck at the installing local cache files… and that is all it does. I never get farther. I have tried copying the files to disk. I have tried installing from a back up. I have tried Installing from disk… (what a failure on that attempt). I am unable to get a legit game to install, and this is driving me insane. I have had better luck with the pirate brews than this.
i know that it is not legit or anything, but i managed to get my friends one working after he had trouble installing theone hedownloaded from thislink http://torrents.to/search#mininova:dawn of war
after installing that one i downloaded the patch uploaded by the same person to his computer and pasted all the unraed files into the game folder and it worked like a charm.
link to the patch is http://torrents.to/search#mininova:dawn of war 2
if anyone uses these links then i will give you the guidlines of how to install it, you need to unrar everything into whatever folder you want it to be, i just putit into his my documents folder, then you click on the setup file, that will come up with a dos window asking you to press any key, when you do it will start to unpack everything and it will show a percentage of how far through it is at the top, ignore the 1% on the screen, then when it is finished unpacking it will come up on the screen that its 10% completed, it will stay there for some time so dont worry about the fact that it hasnt chneged, depending on how fast your computer is, it may take up to about 20/30mins before it goes up to the next level of 25%, after that it should speed up and get to 45% then onwards and start asking you to install direct x, and games for windows, when it completes, there is also a software folder in the unrared files, it will be in a folder inside that one that you need to open and install the c++ files if you havent got them already. once installed you can either run the loader which istitled start and should be on your desktop, or you can add the files from the update, all you do is unrar the folder patch 1.0-1.3 then copy the files from there into the game folder and it should merge all the files and over right the ones that it needs to replace. once doing that you get a new loader, that is titled loader, but i dont think it will be put to the desktop, instead you should make a shortcut to the desktop, and then just for the sake of making it look right, right-click the loader icon on the desktop, click on properties, then on change icon, then browse for the icon for the dawn of war 2 exe that is in the game folder and that should change the icon to the dawn of war icon. once you have finished that you can change the name of the loader to whatever you want and you are done.
hope this helps everyone who is stuck.
may i also add that you need to have steam on your system
I have steam installed and updated.
Hey. My game works fine.. But when it comes to angels Forge or gate i dont remember the name.. Is lagging as hell.. I can’t do anything nearly..
And i got alot of GB free so.. I dont know what it is … Help please…
Thanks
I’m getting a crazy draw error. Half of my screen to the left side is filled with triangles, or has a pink tone to it, and will not render the game. I am running an AMD x2 3.2ghz processor with 4GB Ram and an 8800GTX with the latest drivers. Even with low graphics on the draw error persists.
Howdy,
the game runs fine and everything but when it signs into LIVE a update thing pops up and that’s all cool but it won’t do anything. The update thing will move along the bar but won’t go away or say its installed or anything. The current version I have is 1.2.1. Its freezing along the progress bar in the update thing, anyone know why and how I can fix this?
Hi, my Dow II has been working perfectly.
I get this message “An update is required for windows live. If you decline this update you will be signed out of live” (Basically i can’t play the game without it.)
So i click yes and the loading bar zooms up right to the end and just freezes. I’ve left it like that for an hour. No change.
When i first tried downloading the update it moved normally then stopped at the end. A friend told me to sign out, sign in, then retry. No difference.
I alt-tabbed to check if it was being blocked by firewall but couldn’t see any blocking messages.
Anyone got any idea how to fix this?
Thius it sounds like we got the same problem >.<
Ah alright, problem solved. I just left it on for a couple hours and it eventually donloads.
I Bought Dawn of War 2 a few months ago and it constantly crashed durig gameplay.
Eventually I downloaded a Patch and now it just crashes when I press play on the start up menu.
It will simply pause for a few seconds and a loading bar will come up saying “Dawn of war 2 has stopped working. Microsoft is looking for a solution. Then just comes up with a small window saying something like “Dawn of war 2 had to close” and gives me no options.
Any Help cause I neeed it.
i have this error….
“Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. Ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for Dawn of War II. Verify that DirectX is properly installed and that you have the latest drivers for your system”
please help me how to solve this…
email me at… Broodmama25@yahoo.com
please…
i just want to play the game… ^_^
thnx in advance…
I bought the game, installed it and had no problems with playing online or the campaign. Then it messed up and wouldn’t load again. I re-installed the game and it started loading again after the steam update. Then windows live started updating when I signed in to windows live. It loads right untill the end where this a little space. I’ve left it too load for quite a while now but had no luck. Any suggestions?
i really need help with my DOW 2 issue, i get as far as installing the game, updating it in steam then i double click to open and i get as far as “preparing to launch dawn of war 2″ then nothing happens….i have reinstalled many times and i am totaly stuck as to what do to…any ideas????
i instaled DOW2 on my pc it plays fine then something happen and i had to reinstal windows and now it can’t find the right rendering device i have directx 11 and everything is the same as last time. any ideas?
i have this problem
Dani — April 28, 2009 @ 5:52 pm
i have this error….
“Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. Ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for Dawn of War II. Verify that DirectX is properly installed and that you have the latest drivers for your system”
where can i find patch v1.10 and 1.1.1??????????please help me……………….
hey guys – bin having problems similar to those pf u which have …
“Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. Ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for Dawn of War II. Verify that DirectX is properly installed and that you have the latest drivers for your system”
… even though i have the correct requirements and all of widows new updates and i spent hours doing this .
proving to be very frustrating that the game will not even launch
please can someone send me a solution to natpeddie@hotmail.com
much appreciated!!!
Dude I finished installing my Dawn of War 2 and i started it
and the movie trailer plays but after the movie it crashes and my laptop restarted..
hey im having a problem installing the game… ive done everything through steam thats all done then i went through the installation then it reset itself so i click to play then it says preparing to launch warhammer message box which quickly flashes up… then nothing happens can u help me
ok i have been to loads of sites and forums and im pisssed….. iv got the right requirements for the game it loads up ok, the installation went well but when i start playing the game it starts lagging real slow. iv tried everything updating my graphics card to even reducing my settings to the lowest even my resolution, iv got 3 gigram and tempted to make it 4 if it will even make a difference. if anyone got any suggestion on how i can get my dow 2 running smoothly let me know. THIS IS A PAIN
venger31@hotmail.com
I was playing DOW2 last nite and logged off. About an hr later I went to go play another round and I couldn’t connect off of Steam. I get a message “Steam has found a problem with you local games file. Game file will be re-aquired from the Steam servers”
plz help
Absolum1980@yahoo.com
i bought this game from steam and now every time i try and sign in my windows live account it tells me theres a network problem or id isnt availiable
Just bought DOW2 and loaded game without any problems but unable to play as it is so slow. My computer should be more than capable to run it. Any help really welcome. Am no expert so instructions in simple terms please!
Why does the game crashes when i fight the final monster in the campaign????
Why does the game crash when i fight the final monster in the campaign????
I just downloaded it and keeps poping up with (DOW2 stoped due to probly not having the latest DircectX) i’ve just installed the latest one can some1 help me plz
Warhammer dawn of war 2.in the installation folder there is a loader.exe to install the game.when ever i run the installation
it exicute the installation but My monitor display says mode not supported.please help…
My Computer features are
core 2 quad
Monitor 26″in
1 gb Grafic card ddr3
Well guys I have bought the damn thing…and I have not managed not to even see the intro yet…
Every time I launch it through Steam…I get the annoying installing DX…failure… but after that a crash msg in Vista with the following details:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: dow2.exe
Application Version: 1.3.0.0
Application Timestamp: 49f66bef
Fault Module Name: d3dx9_39.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a7a6
Exception Code: c0000135
Exception Offset: 00009cac
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 9d13
Additional Information 2: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Additional Information 3: 9d13
Additional Information 4: 1abee00edb3fc1158f9ad6f44f0f6be8
Any idea how to over come this nightmare?
Anyone worked out the ‘Meridian Map Glitch’ yet? Day 17, completed the other 2 planets, cant see meridian!
When I play multiplayer with just computers I get a defend ping that keeps pinging intill the game is over. I only see it on the other side of the map and it happens every time I play. Can this be fixed?
Hey, I got this game from my uncle who didn’t want it any more so he unsubscribed but it says that some1 else is still using the code… why?
Hey, I have installed DoW2 in my PC and everything works fine. The only problem I have is the graphics. I can’t set it to high, not even medium. I am running the game on a Pentium D with 3.00 GHz with 1.5 GB of RAM memory and a 1GB graphics video card. How much more RAM do I need to run the game on at least medium or high? I can’t stand playing DoW 2 in low graphics, It’s not fun.
Any help would be needed T_T
RE: TIM
It’s not the amount of memory on your graphics card that’s important, it’s the gpu…what is your graphics card? and do you have all the most recent drivers?
My DoW2 crashes on startup. I’m pretty sure my specs will work with it tho’. I reinstalled the game twice including Windows Live yet it’s still not working. ‘DoW2 has stopped responding etc’ > Close Program > Back to desktop. Eeeks. Help pls? Thanks in advance !
Wasabi – tried the fixes at the top of the page? got the lastest patch and drivers?
Hey,
Hey,
I downloaded the game without any problems, but then it told me I had to download DirectX. When I downloaded it, Dawn of War 2 still wouldn’t play.
RE: Fuss
My graphics card is a Radeon X1650 Series with 1GB Video Memory
Do you know where I can find the links to the latest drivers for this video card?
iwhen i start the game i receive a message “steam error”.pls help me
hi guys, i noticed some of you are having the problem of launching DOW2. u click on the launch button and nothing happens? or you see the launching game box taking forever to launch?
I had the same problem. What i did to make it work is…
1. go to File>settings
2. then at Beta Participation: set change to Warhammer 40k DOW2 Beta
3. you will be prompted to restart steam (if nothing happens it should continue to install some other Microsoft stuff… that was lacking and causing the game to stall.
4. even if restarting steam is a b*tch. just go to your task manager – and force end steam.exe. and launch it again.
5. cross ur fingers and hope it works!
hope this helps – it did for me :p
Cheers
i ve problem with the set up
weneva open or click setup .exe ,it gives an error no setup.ini file found
wat to do plz help
i cant win missions it all wayes freezes at when i finish them at the last seconed and i cant play more and after a few mintes my comeputer shuts down but it happens all ways at the chapion and i cant play….
Playing DOW II on Vista Ultimate x64. I have a x58 asus p6t board with 6gb tripple channel with gtx 295 card using 185.5 as 186.x causes sync issues with monitor. I find when playing the game I have had no problems until I installed Vista x64 service pack 2. Usually what happens is shortly after playing graphics can be choppy followed by static noise and when I hear the static noise i know shortly after the game will crash or freeze. Anyone else having this issue? Is it known or just me? I have uninstalled SP2 and find I do not have this problem to date, but could it be something else?
Thanks,
marc
hello plz i need help the game crash after starting the mission with win xp i dont know why can any body help me???
Hello guys . I bought and installed DoW2 yesterday from Steam. But ,since yesterday ,the game crashes for a VGA card problem and my PC reboots . Of course this happens only with this game (i tested with other games)
My Pc configuration is :
Nvidia 9600 gt 512 mb , 4 gb RAM ddr2, Windows vista 64 bit .
Can someone help me with my VGA card crash issue ? Ty all guys …
ps : sorry for the bad english.
Hi, just recently the game crashed for me.
so i re-started it and it was working perfectly =]
but then i realised my rank had suddenly dropped from rank 56
all the way down to 2 so i was wondering can anyone give me some help as to get back to rank 56.
please help me
My DoW 2 crashes every other time i go into find a game(multiplayer) and click start search, and it crashes often. Occasionally it freezes up in the middle of the game but i can still talk to other players, but i have to crash the game to get out of the frozen game. I have a AMD athlon 64 dual core X2 4000+, 2109 mhz, 2GB memory,nvidia 9500 gt, vista 32 bit.
fgjjm
i have installed the game. When i try to launch the game it says ‘Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. Ensure that your system meets the minimum requirments for dawn of war 2. verify that directx is properly installed and that you have the latest drivers for your system.
I have the same problem that many people here has, y run the game and play the campaign mode but is incrediblu slow, my system is more than cappable of run the game so i dont now what the problem could be, does anyone has a solution???
Whenever i used to play it it turns itself off, it somehow sorted itself out now, we did buy a new better moniture though, tht could hav somethin to do with it, hope it helped
Spent the last two days trying to get this to work. My machine runs a dual core 3.2 pentium D, 2gb of dd2, and an Nvidea 250 gts 1gb edition. My video card keeps turning off during the game and my computer restarts (doesn’t matter if I’m going to the options menue or running a mission, happens after a matter of minutes). Before I was using a 9500 gt and it would run with crappy settings without crashing like this. I’ve tried drivers off the disk that came with the new card as well as Nvidea’s drivers off their site…doesn’t fix it. I also went through a grueling 8-hour update download with steam after I installed the game…so I’m afraid to reinstall the game. I checked my device manager and it says that the driver for my system interrupt controller is missing…could this be causing the problem? Or is it a problem with DX? I’ve got enough airflow so I’m sure the card isn’t over heating. I’ve also tried other games without a problem, so it sounds like a conflict with DOW II specifically. Please tell me somebody knows what this is????
hi recently had to take my graphics card out wondering if an ASUS m3n/hd/hdmi on board graphics will run dow2 have 4gb corsair ram keeps telling me my system isnt good enough, directx isnt installed properly or im not running latest driver
checked driver thats upto date i think was told system is enough and i have installed direct x again please help
i just got the game …installed it, but it wont work. tried the two solutions listed up there and it still doesnt work. any ideas?
thank you. =D
Hi, I have enjoyed this game and have been trying to continue enjoying it to the end of the campaign but every time I attempt to continue to “the secrets of angel forge” mission on the planet meridian the game without fail crashes. I have already tried just about everything mentioned here to quick fix the problem. I have lowered my settings in the game to the lowest graphic settings possible (even with no sound) and the result is the same. It will play the cut scene before the mission is supposed to begin just fine. Once the troops are supposed to be in the players command the game crashes and a little gray/green window opens up that says the following:
Fatal Scar Error – Execution Paused
SGroup_GetSpawnedSqaudAt: Invalid
Spawned SquadGroupObs index 1
Lua AngelForge_ObjReliquary.scar
Ln 644 (Reliquary_TarkusReallyWorking)
Below this section is a large font that says “Resume Game” which of course does not resume the game. If you click on it the screen immediately freezes and again displays the previous window I just illustrated.
My computer specs are as follows:
OS – Windows Vista Home Premium
MB – Asus M2A-VM
Chipset – AMD Phenom 9550 quad core
Memory – 4 GB (2 2GB slots)
HD – 500 GB
Graphics Card – R4670, 512MB DDR3 w/DirectX 10.1
I’m not sure what else to do to get the game to run correctly. If you can assist me with the reason for the problem and how I can correct it please do, thank you.
I have a very unique problem the game runs fine i have teh requirements but all the objects are black the trees, buildings, rocks are there but all black. You can still see the yellow ring around chest but they are black. Everything else is fine the ground and troops are all there and before and after missions is find PLEASE HELP
When I try to open dawn of war it has a msgbox:
Steam Error:
Application load error 5:0000065434
any1 can help me please?
Eric,did you download steam first? You have to download steam first before you can play DoW2. If you have downloaded steam first and its doing that you may need to reinstall, sounds like you may have a corrupted file.
i have installed the game. When i try to launch the game it says ‘Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. Ensure that your system meets the minimum requirments for dawn of war 2. verify that directx is properly installed and that you have the latest drivers for your system.
find a game and last stand icons are not lit and Iam unable to use
the online link is connected and the the game is shop brought was working until patchs started being added
OK when i start the game its fine it goes though the movie and stuff but after it loads the main menu it starts to freak out, it starts to go to a flashing black screen and i can click anything well it does that, then it even down spaces or something then go to the game where its still flashes black, in the end it freezes my laptop and i have to reset, plz help i know my laptop can run the game cuz it runs every other game i have great and this comp is only like 2 week ago, the flash goes like this black screen then game black screen ect…
I have the same problem as James E. (comment 21)
My computer freezes and then a pop up comes up and says that my display driver is messing up (i forget how to spell the driver name I think it is IALMRNT5 driver)
PLEASE HELP ME THIS GAME NOT WORKING HAS BEEN RUINING MY LIFE
(It is the platinum edition)
i just bought dawn of war today and it crashes whenever i am about to play a game any advice on that
sorry dawn of war 2 today
i get an error saying please varify directx,or please make sure you have the latest drives and even could not find hardware rendering device can some one help iv been want to to get this and i got it but it wont let me play on it
It freezes randomly. I have thrice the computer requirements, and it only happens in one mission. I can move the mouse and hear sounds. My CPU rise from 20% to 100%.
Okay, so, everything works perfectly for me, the game runs; but the graphics settings it’s on are disgusting. I’ve tried turning them up, and the options are avaliable (i.e nothing is greyed out), but every time I click accept or try to test it, it resets everything to low and then either runs the test or goes to the title screen with the changes rejected (no error message comes up except the warnings that high settings could cause the game to be unstable). I should easily be able to run it on high, i have a quad core 2.6ghz processor, nvidia 9800GT, 4 gig of DDR3 ram, 1TB HDD and windows vista ultimate… So WTF is going on?
I’m in a bit of a pickle here.
According to the “can you run it?” site (http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/srtest/analysis.aspx), my system exeeds the recommended specs for DoW2. However, when I installed the game, the movement was slow and jumpy and the game was virtually unplayable, even on low graphics settings. I’m using an ATI Radeon HD 3400 series video card on Vista. Would anyone be able to help me with this?
hey whenever i launch the game it brings the load screen up and then just a black box with a flashing thing that looks like this( _ ) can anyone tell me whats happening
Bobartles,
Tried updating the drivers for your motherboard? I had that exact same problem, and all it took was to update my motherboard. Good luck.
I have the same issue with No154 David F.
(Fatal Scar Error – Execution Paused
SGroup_GetSpawnedSqaudAt: Invalid
Spawned SquadGroupObs index 1
Lua AngelForge_ObjReliquary.scar
Ln 644 (Reliquary_TarkusReallyWorking)
Below this section is a large font that says “Resume Game” which of course does not resume the game. If you click on it the screen immediately freezes and again displays the previous window I just illustrated.)
but i clicked on F10 is the same as “Resume Game” until i killed the Orc and take over the refinary on the top and nothing happens, another error say something about Avitus im not sure. Please HELP !!!!!!!
this is getting Ridiculouseee…..
i got a dow 2 for christmas
ok it works perfectly fine at first then all of a sudden the screen goes all grey and the only way to get rid is to reboot is
btw i can usually play about 3 or 4 games first then it does that
i have installed steam and then it goes on and says perpering files to install goes through the bar and then just stops. can some one please help me get dawn of war 2 installed on my computer.
What it is that when i launch the game my screen goes black after a few moments i can CTRL ALT DEL to get to task manager it then comes up with a crash error
Consisiting off
DOW2OJS538J0.dmp
TV3P2317.xml
I need a list of compadible graphics cards 4 Dawn of War 2.
so many complain about Dow2 problem..
to solves this problem..is dont BUY or Play DOW2..
Relic,THQ,Relic,gameforwindows.they can’t help u all.
they already got your money..:)
My game runs fine, but I get a box in the bottom right
corner saying this “CD key is required for multiplayer
games”.
I’m only playing CPU and it covers up my build box to
build new squads, tanks etc. How do I shut it off?
thanks Dan…
My game runs fine, but I get a box in the bottom right
corner saying this “CD key is required for multiplayer
games”. This box also comes up when staem is loading, and I seleced don’t show this again.
I’m only playing CPU and it covers up my build box to
build new squads, tanks etc. How do I shut it off?
thanks Dan…
Hey, the game crashes just before starting a campaign mission: (
Thanks
Hello. I have a problem where my mouse pointer does not show on the screen. The only way I can navigate is when something highlights when my mouse is put overtop of it. Does anyone know how to fix this? I am on windows 7 but it did this for when I was on XP as well. I looked in the options and could not find a solution to this. Thank you in advance.
I just fixed it with the help of a relic board person. The solution: Turn off mouse pointer trails.
Hi,
I just downloaded DoW 2…but when i entered in game,the screen is shaking and i know i must decrease the resolution to 800×600 but i don’t know where are the graphic options…
Please can anyone help me???Please maybe i will not enter again in this forum so send me an email at paul_transformers@yahoo.com
THX…and i beseech u to save me i want to play this game soooo bad…
when i go to start DoW 2 up from steam says launching game the small box closes then nothing appears to be happening no signs of my comp loading anything or ctrl alt delete says the app isnt even in progress anyone got any help plz?
I’ve got a vista and it works fine… until the tyranid mission where I have to poison the veins. When I complete it it just blanks out
I can play all the other missions and no problems it just seems to be this one 
when trying to play dawn of war 2 i get a text box saying that my video card is not compatible with the game….i looked at the requirements and i have passed even the recommended requirements so i now have to play with the lowest graphic detail…..i just want to know why it is saying that and how to fix it
@jobo : you may want to update your video card drivers to the latest version. what is your video card btw?
@unhappy : i head that one got fixed in a patch. DoW2′s campaign is glitchy w/o the patches
ok, iam getting upset. I have had DOW2 sence the day it came out. I have played it a millon times no problem. Then about mid Dec. i went to play and every time it goes to start, after the start up screen comes up, the screeb goes black the dow arrow comes up like its going to start and then, crash. I get that crash report window. I have reinstalled the game twice, i have updated directx, and steam has updated the other day. I have no idea what is going on. can some one help
I have this game and finished it through a sitting half-way through the game a view months ago. Reason I don’t play it much is because it crashes my entire computer every time.
I go to play online and it crashes the computer, I get into a game and it crashes the computer completely, and it mostly happens in last stand cause I don’t play the regular online mode much.
Any help? this is preventing me from playing the game. Also have Relic stopped support for the game???
when i try and launch the game the steam box comes up for a few seconds saying the game is launching and then it disapears and nothing happens
I down the down of war 2, and i cant play.
I follow instructions, i install it well, i try to find something in some forum or some website… but nothing yet.
The only error or thing that the game says, is a problem, with 3 files. One, in ‘my games\down of war 2\logfiles’ its a .txt named ‘warnings.txt’ with zero kb.
And the other 2 files, are in ‘windows\temp’. Those are files with extention ‘*.dmp and *.xml’ and always have a different name.
Thats something envolved with a webpage and a dmp file ? who knows !
The point is, that i cant plat. Not even see the presentation of the game, or something.
I check the system, advanced and temps, spaces, erasing, reinstalling all, etc…
And not works at all !!!
The only thing that works are the steam and live.
And the Warhammer, are in my drive, only for see the folder.
If there any solution, please: caos_f_2000@hotmail.com
With mail, not msn, is better, because i never connect.
Says goodbye !
And i ll continue with the batman arkham.
Warhammer… standing by…
CAs…
Lemat.
Hi, before i start the game, it shows me an error that says something about making sure i have directX, i dont so where would i download it?
have the same problem as Lemat bruno
if any solution email: magnus-sandell@hotmail.com
well i just had dow2 updated for the chaos rising and i had it on 1360x78o and it took it to 1366×780.and then it would crash.i tried to switch it back where it was before but then it crashes again….what should i do?
I got DoW2 this week and it played fine until after the 11th of March update. When I start the game and alter options it crashes when I hit the accept button. Furthermore clicking Campaign, Last Stand or Multiplayer will result in an instant crash. I can’t play at all. HELP!
i am a vista user, and i bought the game (cd) yesterday and to try it out i started the installation and then it all was rdy i start the game and in my menu that space marine random missing parts, and i couldnt start any game without crashing, and i allready reinstalled the game 4times now. and i cant play any mission or game without crashing before start.
P.S i can crash in the menu too because of graphic bugging
P.S.S i have Intel(R) core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8600 @ 3.33GHz
and memory(ram) 4.00gb
and if u have a answer to my problem send it to my e-mail
ikkeok@live.dk
[...] Problem #2 : Dawn of War 2 Error “xlive.dll not found error” Solution #1 1) Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Uninstall the “Microsoft Games for Windows LIVE Redistributable” if it is installed 2) Download and install the latest LIVE Redistributable from microsoft Solution #2 If you encounter this error right after installing Warhammer Dawn of War 2, try to restart your computer first because there are known issues with Games For Live not working properly when it has been installed from a previous title (especially Steam titles) source : GNL DOW2 (non CR) fix guide [...]
IT DOESNT WORK!!
I have the exact same problem as flarefall, missing particles in the space marine at the start menu. And clicking anything causes a error which takes us back to the desktop. I only have Dawn of War 2.
@ flarefall: I fixed it! You need to go to ur documents/my games/dawn of war 2/ settings and open the configuration file with notepad. Then put all options on 0 and start the game. When ingame try switching to medium settings. From there it should run fine.
THanks you NoVacius !
Recently my computer was hit with virus and i had to back everything up, but once as i backed it all up my stuff i just copied and pasted it into the program files folder. However i did decide to re install steam, Dow2 and GWFL. But recently when ever i try to either play a game by myself or host a game, my game just keeps saying it is searching but it never finds a game. The cancel search button goes unclickable and when i press back to cancel it my game lags out for like 5 minutes and windows live says a sign in change has occurred. I have uninstalled and re-installed it over and over but the same thing keeps happening. Could you please help me find a answer to this problem.
After the newest update for Dawn of War 2 uploaded the marine on the start menu was off alot, his arms was on his hips and his head half off. I have tried going into opitions to cheack if i could fix it in there but when i get done with it the send error/crash report comes up. Is there any way i can fix itwith out un-installing it and re-installing it?
Recently when im up to the mission called “The Secrets of Angel Forge” everything runs smoothly untill the gate closes then it comes up with an error saying this,
FATAL SCAR ERROR – EXECUTION PAUSED
SGroup_GetSpawnedSquadAt: Invalid
Spawned SquadGroupObs index 1
Lua Angel Forge_ObjReliquary.scar
Ln 644 (Reliquary_TarkusReallyWorking)
__________________________________________
Resume Game
__________________________________________
so when i click resume game it just appears again and the game moves for a milli second so i cant play the game at all
so can someone please tell me how to fix this error.
@ Paul Pritchard: I fixed it! You need to go to ur documents/my games/dawn of war 2/ settings and open the configuration file with notepad. Then put all options on 0 and start the game. When ingame try switching to medium settings. From there it should run fine.
Since about June (I got DOW2 in March) last year I have been unable to use multiplayer (the button is faded out and I am unable to use it) if I go to create public games I can not see any games. I have internet connection and can play multiplayer games. When last stand came out it was faded out as well. My DOW2 game is run through steam.
anyone just get the feeling its shoddy software and they should’ve had a product recall ages ago… the game has never worked for me and i’m running on max specs….personally i think its a load of crap that they would ever release something that clearly didnt go under extensive testing to make sure it worked…
Recently my computer was hit with virus and i had to back everything up, but once as i backed it all up my stuff i just copied and pasted it into the program files folder. However i did decide to re install steam, Dow2 and GWFL. But recently when ever i try to either play a game by myself or host a game, my game just keeps saying it is searching but it never finds a game. The cancel search button goes unclickable and when i press back to cancel it my game lags out for like 5 minutes and windows live says a sign in change has occurred. I have uninstalled and re-installed it over and over but the same thing keeps happening. Could anyone please help me find out how to fix this it is really annoying.
every time i play dawn of war 2 i hv to change the graphics to low but any time i change anything to any setting other then what its on the game crashes
hi,
now i can’t log onto windows games live in the game,
i can log onto it in client bt not in the game,
after i log onto in game what happens is that it asks for game code ad i enter it and it just comes up with an error like this
0×8002000
and i can’t log in,
i have a windows xp so can someone help me.
@ Everyone whose game crashes at all times after chaos rising update with the broken space marine missing particles at title screen: I fixed it! You need to go to ur documents/my games/dawn of war 2/ settings and open the configuration file with notepad. Then put all options on 0 and start the game. When ingame try switching to medium settings. From there it should run fine.
thanks (NoVacious) that stupid update was buggin me for days, didnt think to try that, lol, ur a star.
Recently my computer was hit with virus and i had to back everything up, but once as i backed it all up my stuff i just copied and pasted it into the program files folder. However i did decide to re install steam, Dow2 and GWFL. But recently when ever i try to either play a game by myself or host a game, my game just keeps saying it is searching but it never finds a game. The cancel search button goes unclickable and when i press back to cancel it my game lags out for like 5 minutes and windows live says a sign in change has occurred. I have uninstalled and re-installed it over and over but the same thing keeps happening. Could anyone please help me find out how to fix this it is really annoying.
#jobo 185
I have a simular problem as jobo, I could without problem play the demo, but as soon as I got the real deal there is some serious graphic problems. At the main menue a box pops up saying my video card aint compatible. When I try to change the graphics to lower or change anything that has anything to do with the graphics the game craches. I’m on a laptop with Vista that should be able to handle this without problems. My video card is a ATI Radeon HD 4650 Series. I have tried to download new drivers for the card from: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
but aint sure if I got the right one, because there aint no differance at all. Any one got a clue?
hey guys i just got the game a few days ago and i installed it and everything and all it keeps saying is you have an old version of directx …..at first i thought i could handle this but its really annoying and i dont know how to fix it ive seriously tried everything ..so let me know if you guys could give me a hang thx
Hello i have an xbox live account so i buy dow 2 chaos rising and i try siging in with my exsisting account and my computer freezes then i try making a completly different account and it freezes but i can play fine on campaign and skirmish help please.
wow, after the patch my campain got erased
I’ve tried your march 15 fix @NoVacious, it doesn’t work, indeed the game seems to ignore that file. Also extra data; my game worked fin until I had a save game after the patch, confirmed by deleting saves and reloading. It is hard to believe that it’s a graphics issue when I ran on Ultra for half of chaos rising.
in my dow2 screen the middle is totally black. i can see campaign, last stand, multiplayer and option and of course quit when i select campaign or multiplayer,the game crashes but when i select last stand it works but the hero selection is shit. i can only use eldar farseer and sm commander and their colour looks really weird.(black shade all over)i just bought chaos rising and when i tried it , it has the same problem and the trailer is the same as dow2
218# IM
I tried that one aswell, I could play the game no problem now. But that is only single player. As soon as I go multiplayer the game starts to freeze and shit. And also, I could not watch the ending cinematic for Rise of Chaos. The game just freezes up untill the cinematic is over and then continiues like nothing happened.
I’m gonna atempt to update my drivers again, but dont realy have high hopes for that it will work.
Any one got any idea wtf I can do?
My first post is at #214 March 17
I recently got this problem that when i star the game the force commando in the menu i half invisible and when i play the troops and buildings are invisible and when i exit the game it tells me it has crashed i have alredy tried to reinstal the game and it wotn work any help in real english would be aprisiated
NoVacious = a genius!!!!
When I did this, it worked. There is some graphic setting that f’s everything up. I was able to play with full settings before with my rig, and now even if I go to medium, the images are missing. Something in the new version screwed it up. Anyway, thanks!
“@ Paul Pritchard: I fixed it! You need to go to ur documents/my games/dawn of war 2/ settings and open the configuration file with notepad. Then put all options on 0 and start the game. When ingame try switching to medium settings. From there it should run fine.”
Hi Guys i have a hugely annoying problem, everytime i start up dawn of war 2 it says “Failed to set a working mode for the rendering device, this may be due to having an old version of direct X installed”. Ive checked my direct X around 9 times ive even downloaded “the one needed” off the interent around 3 times and nothing continues to happen. PLEASE help me on this!! My email is: Jesingleton@mgs.vic.edu.au
i have just reinstalled dawn of war 2. when i decided to play the game steam updated and know the characters on screen are invisible and you are only able to see their shadows. i would love it if any one had any hints or tips to help. cheers!
I have just installed Dawn of War 2 and started it up. It works fine offline but when I try to go online it says I have to install a patch, the bar shows it is almost done, and then the game freezes.
i can’t find a solution to my DOW 2 CR problem, while loading angel gate in the campaign or the version of it in multiplayer it freezes and i have to tab out and it gives me the error: “failed to create dump file : ” (error 0)” and then the game crashes. After restarting the game and go straight into the angel gate missions it works fine but now the problem is occuring more often and not only on angel gate now.
Windows vista SP 2, 32 bit
4 GB ram
and the only spec that is under the requirements is the 2.6 CPU which runs fine anyway.
Heya lads and ladies!
I’ve been attempting to play Dawn of War 2 for the past hour or so. Before I begin to play however, I have attempted on numerous occasions to lower the quality of my game settings so that the game runs smoother and with fewer crashes and glitches. Unfortunately, when I alter the games graphics in the options menu, after I click “Accept” the game crashes and asks me to submit a crash report. Any ideas? Thanks a million in advance!
-D
that happened to me as well what you should do is reinstall the game and is should be fixed
Hi, am have a problem, i cant see the characters when i try to play, or even the general on the main menu. Please help
hi odinn that is happing to me i think it is because i updated but i really don’t know i too would love it if anyone had any ideas thanks my email.is danielneill@hotmail.com
When i start the game, the chaos lord on the opening menu is partially invisable (no body, gun etc.) when i play multiplayer, tyranid leaders have no heads, and orcs have no arnor, wheapons, and some also are headless. in-game, my units are all shadows, and have no bodies. how can i fix this?
i can play the game fine…. BUT the graphics are strange with half loaded buildings and charaters, looks terrible
Is it my graphics card (ATI radeon HD 4530) or the game ?
@alex and specc
going to this like should help solve your problem http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1195619
odinn how exactly did you resolve the problem i have downloaded the catalyst but haven’t a clue what to do
Hey guys, I’v installed DoW2 on my new Windows7 PC and when its starting up with steam i get the loading screen and it says “Game will be ready within 6 hours” I have no clue what the hell is making it so slow, this PC launches games like Assassins Creed 2 Just Cause 2 etc. within 20 seconds. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot m8s
it is because it has to install the game it took 8 hrs for mine
I have a laptop that meets all the recommended requirements but the video card. My Laptop has an intel chipset that says it has the capacities required by DOW2. However when I try and play the game it says could not find Graphics card. I meet all the recommended specs even the memory required for the video card but it wont work. Any help would be greatly appreciated
when i start the game it is soo slow and then like 5 minutes later it crashes! what is the reason. And i know my computer is capable of running the game please email me or reply to my comment please!
I had the slow motion issue when the game first came out and I changed the audio to low and that worked perfectly. I had most other settings maxed.
I haven’t played for a couple weeks and now tried to finish the campaign and am having an issue with the maps not loading. The bar when loading the mission stopped halfway, after a couple of minutes of waiting, I went to smoke (about 6-8 minutes) when I came back it was ready to load.
When I hit a key to start the mission, nothing happened for 45sec to 1 minute, then I got audio of tanks moving but was still on the loading screen. When the mission finally switched to to actual game, it was in slow motion.
I alt-tabbed, re-loaded, reduced some graphics settings, tried to performance test and was at 43 frames per sec on avg. Tried to load again, and same thing happened.
What doesn’t make sense is the game was working fine. I don’t know if a patch came out in the last 2-3 weeks that may have fubared things.
Any advice would be appriciated.
i have a issue when i launch with dev i crash
Problem 3.. i play daw2 through steam. i had it uninstalled for a while and recently installed it. when i launch the game (through steam) nothing happens and i get a relic error reporter thing.. i have reinstalled 3 times, installed all the packages that came with it and disabled all forced refresh rates i had active. i also just updated my nvidia driver. other than that i know my hardware can handle it as i use to play it. any advice would be awesome cause i miss playing this game!
when i start dow2 the screen is black except for a blue triangle of color on the right side. Sound still comes through and buttons work but screen never changes. The intros all still play too. This has been fairly recent
Hey guys, well i have been playing dawn of war 2 for a while and recently when i go on multiplayer everythig freezes and it says that everyone have dropped and the computer has taken over, the wierd thing is, is that everyone drops at the same time:( can someone pl help
When i try to start up DOW 2 a relic error comes up
A problem has been encountered and the program needs to close
WTF!!!
Just re-installed DoW2 since I got windows7 and it doesn’t even open up… Just gives me a error report. I’m assuming they won’t update it so it runs on Windows7. Any1 wanna gimme some advice?
I have a problem during the Angel Forge mission.
It happens so that the whole PC completely freezes when a possibly certain or random Carnifex is killed during the defense and explodes.
I have had a similar (but much less severe – only DoW stopped responding) issue in Rippa-Splitta, which would emerge if there were too many explosions going on, so I will assume the particle effects are indeed related.
Hey guys, I’ve been reading this and the more I know the more I wanna play… but see, when I installed, did all the Steam system stuff, and tried to play the game, nothing happens. I go into the Steam menu, I select the game, and I press play. Then there’s a box that pops up for half a second, I assume a loading box, and then… nothing. I expected epicness of the highest proportion and I know that’s what I’d get if I could only get into the game
I could really use some words of advice. Is it my computer? Is it the Steam system? Is it Karma? o.O
Hi, I hat the same issues like post #219: in the main menu I had a black box in the middle of the screen where a character should be (like chaos or space marine). After various attempts (like installing the game in XP or 7) I was able to fix that. Important: I bought the game on steam.
In the Steam directory there is a folder where every game is installed on. I just deleted all DOW2-folders. On Steam I deleted the local content of that game…just to be sure. Afterwards I downloaded the game again and voila! I got the main screen of Chaos Rising and the game works fine^^
My assumption: I didnt remove DOW2 (main game) properly and Steam just installed Chaos Rising into the same folder mixing everything up…leading to the wrong main menu in Chaos Rising.
Hope this helps you =)
I bought the game on steam and when i run it it says: Failed to find supported hardware rendering device. Ensure that the system meets the minimum requierments (which it does btw) and that you have the latest drivers for your system (Which i also have btw) etc…
Please help! I’ve tried reinstalling it once, downloading Directx again, downloading GFWL again, restarting my computer AND updating my drivers (Which btw there where no new updates for.) I’ve mailed Relic and this is seriously starting to piss me off. My PCs good enough and shit, but it wont work… Only thing i haven’t tried is trying to update it manually, which i have no idea how to do… Please answer fast before i shoot myself! Lawl
I am having a problem where it always crashes when I am about to start a mission, I have windows vista and im on my laptop, I erased every gameso I could get space for this but it still crashes and lags
I’m getting this error saying, “Failed to find a supported hardware rendering device. Ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for Dawn of War II. Verify that DirectX is properly installed and that you have the latest drivers for your system.”
Thanks
INI file was not found
I just had to say i tinkered a little and found the best way to fix graphics issues. Go into DoW II Folder, go to settings and delete configuration.lua. This solved nearly everyone ive spoken tos problem with most issues.
I’ve narrowed down a few specific issues when playing/Loading the game, for some reason either from a DirectX update or driver update, the game will not longer run in DX10 mode? not sure if it ever did, but only specifying dx9 in one of the config file will allow the loading of the game.
This issue I think relates to the next issue major fps drop with terrain detail anything above low setting, everything else can be max and theres barely any performance hit but once terrain detail is set above lowest then the fps goes as low as 2fps, compared to 27fps before, thats some major fps issue!
Again these issues only started to happen after some updates, as I have remembered playing the game on max details with no problems and no major slowdown.
To be specific why the issues are related, is I’ve noticed DX9 mode in Windows 7 is actually worse on the Latest ATI RADEON 5000 series compared to DX10 for games, good for DX10 but anything that uses DX9 seemes to suffer in W7. Only fix to solve these problems I found is to either switch to Nvidia or go back to XP or Vista, Since my laptop has Vista, it’s much lower spec than my desktop yet it doesn’t seem to have the same issue! with max details it’s actually faster than my desktop… so ati4650m c2d7300 2gb > ati5750 q2q6600 4gb? i don’t think so!
The game will start but there won’t be any characters or building or anyting also the video when starting the campaign jumps etc
2 old topic but some one may help
the game crash at start with an error report message !!!