Crash after installing Tribes expansion

Just nabbed the Tribe expansion and after installing it, I’m getting a crash in-battle just as my fighters are in range to start trading firepower.

----DEBUG FILE----
Windows Vista detected
GSB Debug File. App version Full 1.36
Desktop resolution is 1680 x 1050
Initialising Direct3D
Initialising global vertex buffer
creating render targets
success in initialising 3D
Initialising Direct Input
Finished Initialising Direct Input
Initialising Sound Engine
Initialised Sound System with 512 channels

Finished Initialising Sound Engine
Design [Swarm Fighter] deleted because it was not valid with this version

Initialising 3D Engine
Driver : nvd3dum.dll
Description : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
DeviceName : \.\DISPLAY1
Checking For Shader Support
NumSimultaneousRTs:4
hal_caps.PixelShaderVersion >= D3DPS_VERSION(2, 0)
About to Create 3D Device with width: 1280 and height : 960
Attempting hardware Vertex Processing
Finished initialising 3D Engine
Initialising Render target of 512 X 512 rt_ship
rt_ship
Initialising Render target of 2048 X 1024 rt_offscreen1
rt_offscreen1
Initialising Render target of 2048 X 1024 rt_offscreen2
rt_offscreen2
Initialising Render target of 2048 X 1024 rt_transition
rt_transition
titlescreen2048.bmp
cwfont20.dds
zekton16.dds
box_background.jpg
textbutton.dds
textbutton_h.dds
dialog_titlebar.dds
menu_backdrop.jpg
gui_scrollup.dds
gui_scrollup_h.dds
gui_scrolldown.dds
gui_scrolldown_h.dds
scenario_skirmish.dds
scenario_survival.dds
bg1_icon.jpg
achieve_empty.dds
achieve_bronze.dds
border_depth.dds
debris.dds
contrails.dds
escapepod.dds
escapepodengines.dds
shield_impact.dds
client_interlace.dds
dialog_client.dds
19px_highlight.dds
19px_highlight_black.dds
smokeclouds.dds
runninglight.dds
shield_collapse.dds
bg9_icon.jpg
achieve_silver.dds
achieve_gold.dds
bg8_icon.jpg
tooltip.dds
filterbuttons.dds
square_box.dds
square_box_h.dds
square_box_brown.dds
Tribe Freedom Cruiser.dds
Tribe Heaven Fighter.dds
changeracebutton.dds
newshipbutton.dds
bg8.jpg
strip_fill.jpg
strip_fill_red.jpg
module_locked.dds
Rebel Achilles Fighter.dds
Rebel Asgard Frigate.dds
Rebel Atlantis Bomber.dds
Rebel Fenrir Cruiser.dds
Rebel Icarus Fighter.dds
Rebel Loki Frigate.dds
Rebel Minotaur Cruiser.dds
Rebel Odin Frigate.dds
Rebel Pheonix Fighter.dds
Rebel Valhalla Cruiser.dds
Rebel Valkyrie Cruiser.dds
deployment_range.dds
fillbar.dds
tribe_turret_auto_1.dds
tribe_turret_las_6.dds
module_armour_v5.dds
module_tribe_repair.dds
module_crew2.dds
tribe_turret_auto_2.dds
module_powergen_v9.dds
gui_dragbutton.dds
gui_sliderbar.dds
module_armour_v14.dds
tribe_turret_miss_2.dds
module_engine_2.dds
module_powergen_v3.dds
progress_bar.jpg
loadscreen_valhalla.bmp
star.dds
kinetic_blast.dds
ecmshockbeam.dds
turrets_tribe.dds
lightning.dds
repairbots.dds
armourglow.dds
radiation.dds
Tribe Freedom Cruiser_damaged.dds
particles.dds
tribe_engineglow.dds
engine_colors.dds
Tribe Freedom Cruiser_hulk.dds
breakup_alpha.dds
Tribe Heaven Fighter_sprite.dds
tribe_hulks.dds
Rebel Achilles Fighter_sprite.dds
rebel_hulks.dds
Rebel Atlantis Bomber_sprite.dds
beam_blue_atlas.dds
turrets_rebel.dds
plasma.dds
shield_blast.dds
shield_scroll.dds
shield_blast2.dds
circle_shield.dds
Rebel Fenrir Cruiser_damaged.dds
engineglow.dds
Rebel Fenrir Cruiser_hulk.dds
target_painter_beam.dds
Rebel Icarus Fighter_sprite.dds
Rebel Loki Frigate_damaged.dds
Rebel Loki Frigate_hulk.dds
beam_yellow_atlas.dds
beam_red_atlas.dds
beam_green_atlas.dds
Rebel Minotaur Cruiser_damaged.dds
Rebel Minotaur Cruiser_hulk.dds
turret_blast_yellow.dds
Rebel Odin Frigate_damaged.dds
Rebel Odin Frigate_hulk.dds
Rebel Pheonix Fighter_sprite.dds
Rebel Valhalla Cruiser_damaged.dds
Rebel Valhalla Cruiser_hulk.dds
tractor_beam.dds
tractor_beam_alpha.dds
Rebel Valkyrie Cruiser_damaged.dds
Rebel Valkyrie Cruiser_hulk.dds
minimap.dds
battle_buttons.dds
fleet_overlay_icon.dds
green_score.dds
red_score.dds
asteroids.dds
missile_flare.dds
missile.dds
bullets.dds
target_overlay_line.dds
range_marker.dds

I think I know what you’re going to say, but is there anything in errors.txt that would help?

There’s no errors.txt in my debug folder - just those two files. Probably makes finding out what’s going on that much harder… maybe it’s hidden in a different folder than those other text files?

no, it should only appear if a certain error happened. if there’s no errors.txt, then that means it’s something I don’t know how to fix :frowning:

thats strange. what sort of crash is it? does this only happen with certain ships, maybe the fighters? if you play a non-tribe battle does it still crash?

I’ve got the same crash upon my fighters firing on the tribe fighters. Posted about it over in the old support forum. Pretty sure I put it in the wrong place. I don’t get any debug info written after the crash either, but I’m thinking that may be a windows 7 thing. I’m running a VAIO CW with an nvidia 330, latest drivers for everything. The original game works perfectly, so I’m guessing its an issue with the tribe fighters hit shader animation?

Sorry for the lack of reply. Yeah, it was a straight crash to desktop - no error message, no txt file - just a clean crisp crash without much ado.

I say it ‘was’ a crash as I did the numbskull quick fix attempt of re-downloading the core game installer and re-installing the game. Fired up the same scenario/ships/difficulty level and when the fighters started trading firepower, I got a beautiful cacophony of projectiles and beams instead of a harsh crash.

there is no shader involved in the fighters hit animation, and its no different to any other effect in the game. Also, the game should be fine on windows 7. Are you sure everything is instaleld in the right location?