Relic Readying Dawn of War 2 Campaign Mode Fix, Offers Workaround for Crash Issues

I got a crash last night after finishing the 2nd mission. Relaunched the game and it picked up right where it crashed, so I didnt lose anything. I am running 32bit Vista with Ultra settings, so if it starts happening alot I guess Ill know what to do.

Amazing game so far. Love the RPGish elements and the smaller scale, more brutal combat.

Hope they fix the issues I've shot in bug reports on. I had my tactical marines squad leader revive trapped in a wall; couldn't get him out of it, and it was right in the middle of the shit storm section of the mission so I couldn't survive without him. Oops.

Then I had the Eldar boss chick use her thing that lifts troops in the air for a moment then slams them down. One of my troops got caught in it permanently. The squad showed 2/3 men, but wouldn't call for reinforcements when I sent them back to a beacon. Had to finish the fight with a squad a man down.

Then I had Games For Windows Live bork up sound in to a loop and crash when I tried to pull up the details of an achievement on the deployment screen. Had to completely reboot to fix sound. First time I've had a GFWL game where I actually used it, and I don't like it already.

Really awesome, surprisingly cool game, but the bugs are really putting a damper on it. Much the same as Fallout 3.

Hey. Not too sure if this will work for everyone but I could'nt even play the first mission without it crashing! I'd send the error report to Relic and they said they were aware of my problem and a fix was turning down the effects quality. For a rig as good as mine I'm sure as hell not turning down graphics settings in ANY game! What worked for me is simply turning down my audio sample rate in my comp's audio settings to the highest setting that's set in the options menu in the game (something like 41000Hz or whatever). Now I've gone through the first 3 levels of the game with no signs of crashing. I'm loving this game. Hope this works for at least some of you!.

you're not a gamer if you're running vista32

Glad to see someone else besides Valve taking advantage of Steam's superior patch distribution.

I LOVE this game, when I can play it....

I can't play for more than an hour at a time, or it crashes to the desktop. It's guarenteed. If I quit the game after each map, and restart it, I am usually good. But on the missions where I want to eradicate everything, or the longer ones, I really feel like I'm taking my chances at having to start over. It is REALLY frustrating. Additionally, these crashes have introduced the bug this article speaks of, so basically, I have one mission I can do currently and then I can't play until it's fixed. And I can't play MP since I figure I'll likely crash in the midst of a game and piss not only me but other players off. Additionally, I am on Vista x64 and I've read others are having crashing issues too, on my OS, so I don't buy the whole "small amount of Vista x32 users" bs. There are lots of posts about these two problems in various/official forums.

Again this game is great, but it should not have been launched with such horrid bugs. These are game-breakers, and I'm appalled they made it in. I truly hope they get a patch out today for the save games at least, so I can somewhat enjoy what I paid 50 bucks for.

I was doing a comp and stomp last night, and ended up with the population cap bug. Rather annoying.

I found the game runs pretty well though. Runs perfectly here. If you alt+tab out of the game, it pauses the SP game; if it's on a menu, it fades the music out. Yeah, this is a small/stupid detail, but on this day and age you can't even alt+tab out of many games and it's nice to see they took care of such a little thing.

I'm sitting on their tech support forum and I constantly see replies from developers.

Freakin' sweet.

everytime i start up i get the intro movie, any way to turn this off?

Good to know. I've had a lot of crashes - alt-tabbing, random and other. Oh, and please fix a bug where the game can't be maximized, it just keeps on the taskbar.

company of heroes (and other games) had this same issue, but i thought it was fixed with a MS hotfix (included in SP1)

Perhaps they can also fix it so that Dawn of War 2 identifies itself as a PC game when it shows up on Xbox Live when you're browsing your friends list.

i had a bug where after beating skykilla in the 2nd or 3rd mission he kept telling me that he was coming down to get me and wouldnt end the mission. had to quit where the dialog from the commander was for the next mission and i got all the gear and weapons but i still had to go back and kill skykilla... anyways it let me capture the foundry since i captured the relay the first time and i got more loot... it did advance the day 1 though

guess i try running on medium settings, though i haven't crashed too often usually only about 40 mins of playing.