What a pain! A big problem resulting in this is commonly caused by a bad patch. So don’t waste anymore time and download the fix for the issue below:
Link to fix: HERE
*Password to the archive is nosta12 and you have to open it with WinRAR
Please let me know if this works for you or if you have any problems! If it doesn’t work let me know (reply to this) I will try to find a solution for you.
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Sorin - January 21st, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I didn`t thought that it will actually work, but it did. Thank you very much.
Miguelito - September 8th, 2009 at 8:22 am
I didnt work for me. I copied the files to my game directory but when I load my game it still crashes.
admin - January 22nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I’m glad it worked for you! Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Snipo-01 - January 22nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
omg thnx =D it works
Sebastian - January 28th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Woot… thanks a lot, mate!
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Dennis - March 17th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Does this also work for the mouse problem?
Norbert - March 26th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
..works great..thanx a lot.. :)
Jenhur - April 23rd, 2009 at 6:48 am
I don’t know how you do that,but…..IT SURE HELPS!!!!I’m so surprise!At first i thought it wouldn’t work at all.Thank you.
ian - May 3rd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
by golly , it works!!!! thanks!!!!!
carl - May 13th, 2009 at 9:49 am
thanks it work thank you very very very mutch
pulles - May 13th, 2009 at 10:44 am
i don’t understand it isn’t working for me got some advise
admin - May 13th, 2009 at 11:20 am
What part do you need help with?
ikke - June 5th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
How does it work, i see only a keygen???
Edmond - June 15th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
dis fix work or not please say anything
marn - July 8th, 2009 at 6:28 am
man it really worked!!!!and worked perfectly……thank you very much
Occrin - September 1st, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Thanks man, everything works just perfect :) cheers
Fed - September 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
nice work
thanks alot you really helped me in this problem
i owe you one :)
eric - September 25th, 2009 at 4:13 am
yeah! it worked thanks alot.
Soul - November 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 am
it works thx a lot m8
Marian - November 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
thx man it works
randomnooob - December 30th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Thanks, trying this now :D
It works :D
szil - January 1st, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Thanks, it works.
lol1235lol - March 14th, 2010 at 7:02 am
i put in on but i dont know if it works for my case
my case: at the end of the empires 4th mission (right after all objectives are completed) the game chrashes but id just closes doest evean say the game is no longer working it just quits with no info on why
rrrrr - March 26th, 2010 at 2:43 am
thanks man,. it really worked!!! hehe
John - March 26th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
OMG, i love you x :D x thank you so much
CLK - May 24th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
work great thx m8t
Kiefer - June 19th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Hey where do u put this patch? Can someone give me instructions? I really suck with this kind of stuff..
haidry - August 2nd, 2010 at 3:00 am
Thank you very much it works
haidry - August 2nd, 2010 at 3:04 am
I put this patch in the RA3 installatioin directory, with a little modification, rather then replacing the Data folder i add the data folder contents in the original data folder at the RA3 installation directory
ZX - August 7th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
great, it works perfectly
Tauno86 - August 28th, 2010 at 5:27 am
This realy works, nice job, thank you!