Scourge of War Boards

I installed this game yesterday from a fresh 1.5 download from Matrix, updated with a fresh 1.61 download, and the game crashes on startup. I get a black screen with the cursor, a couple seconds of music, and then a CTD.

I've tried various possible solutions from the Matrix forums, but I get the same results.

Any suggestions?

My Work/SOWGB.log file:

Game Launched
19:22:58 Version:SOWGB
1.6100
19:23:00 PR: (WARNING) Device Lost
19:23:00 Loading Defined Lists
19:23:02 PR: (WARNING) Device Reset
19:23:02 Initializing
19:23:03 Ansi:16, TexH:16384, TexW:16384
19:23:03 SowGB Loaded
19:23:03 19:23:03

There's a rare problem on some machines where the music causes the game to crash. Try going to Base\Music\ and renaming SOWGB_Intro.mp3 to whatever, and see if it works.

Go to your SOWGB directory. In there is a subfolder called 'Work' where you'll find a file called SowGB.ini.

Open the file and change 'Full Screen=1' to 'Full Screen=0'

Go to your SOWGB directory. In there is a subfolder called 'Work' where you'll find a file called SowGB.ini.

Open the file and change 'Full Screen=1' to 'Full Screen=0'

Thank you very much, this did it!

Scratch that. The game started fine two or three times as I changed resolutions and settings, and then it started crashing on startup again. Disabling the intro music has no effect.

The new sowgb.log:

Game Launched
16:38:09 Version:SOWGB
1.6100
16:38:10 Loading Defined Lists
16:38:10 Initializing
16:38:12 Ansi:16, TexH:16384, TexW:16384
16:38:12 SowGB Loaded
16:38:12 16:38:12

Any resolution on this? I am experiencing the same issue. Game has worked fine on my machine since '10. Attempted changing Full Screen=1 to Full Screen=0. Here is the log:

Game Launched
19:53:36
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) Device Caps:
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) FogTable: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) FogVertex: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) AlphaBlend: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) BilinearFilter: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) DDRAWHasAGP: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) WBuffer: 0
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) MaxTextureWidth: 8192
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) MaxTextureHeight: 8192
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) SquareTexture: 0
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) Pow2Textures: 0
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) MaxBlendStages: 8
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) MaxSimultaneous: 8
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) SeparateTextureMemory: 0
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) Projected Textures: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) Hardware TnL: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) ScissorTest: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) StencilDepth: 8
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) Two Sided Stencil: 1
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) NPatches: 0
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) Pixel Shader Profile: 7
19:53:45 PR: (WARNING) Vertex Shader Profile: 4
19:53:46 Loading Defined Lists

What happens if you go into the SOW \ Work - folder and move the SOWGB.ini file to the Desktop?

Does the game start with default settings?

davinci