PC version of Overlord 2, the sequel to 2007’s popular 3rd person action adventure game, was released to the public just two days ago. From what I have experienced so far it’s a pretty decent game which retains the cartoon styled ‘evil’ and humor from the original game. Overlord 2 seemingly does not contain any showstopper bugs but several people have experienced crashes when trying to launch the game. If you are one of those souls, here is something you can do to fix it.
As you may already know most recently released games support hardware based physics acceleration (through NVIDIA PhysX and so on). Overlord 2 is no exception. In fact it seems to have developed ‘special bond’ with PhysX; the game is likely to crash on startup if latest version of NVIDIA PhysX is not installed. The strange part is that you might be required to install PhysX even if you own an ATI video card. Overlord 2 seems to require the PhysX runtime in order to function properly – it won’t give you hardware accelerated physics effects when using ATI cards or NVIDIA cards without PhysX support, but it will at least let you run the game without it crashing at launch.
[Click Here] to download NVIDIA PhysX System Software v9.09.0428 for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7
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It still crashes with new PhysX on my P4 3.4 / 2Gb / Radeon X800 / XP SP 3
Game starts, I can see a LOADING screen with goblin and then it crashes. Same effect with demo-version of OL2.
The same for me on my Athlon 3000+/1gb/x700. I installed the PhysX and latest video card drivers and still doesnt go till main menu. :(
This worked for me! Installed, launched game, and stoped getting that C++ error w/e thing. :]
Worked great, thank you very much. I now know what a waste of money this game was :D
when u open the physics loader and the other dll files it says not enough spac for stuff mabey thats the key
The Physix drivers r for Nvidia cards so they dont work for ATi Cards.
thanks man,i had an error at start up
about visual c blah blah blah...
i hope this fix it..
Dude, you rock... I was so mad when I saw that overlord 2 crashes at startup. Then I downloaded an installed PhysX and everything works just fine!
Thank you very much!!!!
thx dude it works,now lets get started....:))