game crashes

[Lingchih]

yeah, it's an overheat problem. Turn down your graphics settings in the game preferences. For such a seemingly simple game, Dom uses a lot of graphics resources at the default settings.

Turn off Animated backgrounds, fade effects, and lighting effects for a start.

Those settings are under your "Preferences"-- "Video Preferences", btw.

[earcaraxe]

Originally Posted by Dimaz

Sounds like overheat. Try to monitor your CPU and videocard temperature.

It only happens with dominions. Althou it seems a very good guess, I had overheating problems before.

[Dimaz]

As said by Lingchin, Dom tends to load the system unnaturally high. On one old laptop (produces around 2001 or so) it was practically impossible for me to play Dom2, even with lowered settings.

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by Dimaz

Sounds like overheat. Try to monitor your CPU and videocard temperature.

Or only play the cold races...
-ssj

[Edi]

Especially the detail level is important. Turn off all the grass effects on battlefield, as that is the biggest culprit. Depending on detail level, Dominions will draw every blade of grass up to a certain distance, even though you would need a 10k x 10k resolution monitor to even see them. And if it draws it to a distance of 10 km, as it does on the aptly named "Too high" detail setting, well, your graphics card is not going to like it. Even the lesser levels can easily drive it to exhaustion.