Problem #1 : “Critical Error warhammer will now terminate” Error Message
Solution A : Turn off your anti-virus or add Warhammer files to your exceptions list. This occurs when your anti-virus interferes with the patching process. Incase your anti-virus prevented one of the files from being patched or copied properly, turn off your anti-virus, find that file in the antivirus log then delete that file then do a full fill check update. This is pretty much the case with almost every paranoid antivirus softwares
Solution B : If your computer specs do not pass Warhammer’s Age of Reckoning System requirements, it’s probably time to upgrade.
Solutiuon C : the Warhammer Critical Error problem is a symptom of one (or more) of the following : Old video card drivers, RAM less than 2GB and a video card that doesnt have shader 2.0 or better.
Problem #2 : Error Copying E:\data1\art2.myp during installation
Solution A : First, check if you can to copy the whole Warhammer disc into your harddrive, if you come across this problem while checking if you can copy the whole disc, then it’s a disc problem. You may opt to contact your local warhammer vendor and have the Warhammer Age of Reckoning disk replaced (from warhammer forums)
Solution B : Art2.myp can be corrupted by a discontinued update. Try reupdating your Warhammer age of reckoning client client (from warhammer forums).
Problem #3 : Patch Error: Your Warhammer folder is missing a larger number of files. Reinstall the game from the supplied media.
Solution A : tick the Perform full file check before starting the update (as posted by smokeyjon).
Solution B : For those who have been in the beta, the client version may be too updated.
Problem #4 : Warhammer Online Crash to Desktop problems
Solution A : For those who are playing Warhammer Age of Reckoning on XP, go to the properties settings of your network card and under advanced tab, set checksum offload to disabled. (as posted by Rylin).
Solution B : Rename the Users folder to anything then run the game
Solution C : Change the game resolution to that of the desktop’s
Solution D : This Crash to desktop problem seems to happen more often to users who are using ATI video cards with the latest drivers. If you can wait for ATI to release a specialized driver version for WAR then hope that they release it quick or hope that Mythic would patch this problem right away. If you cant wait for new driver builds, try rolling back your drivers a to an earlier stable version, but it’s a longshot.
Problem #5 : Warhammer Black screen crash.
Solution A : Refer to solutions posted in #3
Problem #6 : “Authentication Failed - Application Will Now Terminate” Warhammer Error message
Solution A : Make sure that the ports that Warhammer Age of Reckoning uses are not blocked
Solution B : The Authentication server might have been taking a beating (since WAR is fairly new). But this is more often a server side problem, which Mythic SHOULD fix ASAP.
Problem #7 : Warhammer Stuttering problem *unresolved
Problem #8 : Warhammer game Freeze / Freezing problem *unresolved