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[crivens]

In general, is it advisable or even necessary to reinstall DirectX after you change graphics card drivers?

[Corbin]

Hi I downloaded the episode 2 demo and it installed fine but whenever I try start it my hard drive acts busy for 5 seconds and then then stops and its like I never tried to open it. My computer specs are:
400 mhz Pentium II processor
128 mb of ram
8 mb Viper video card
Sound Blaster AWE64
Windows 98
DirectX 8

[Eclipse]

I'm gonna take a wild guess that it's with your video card... Upgrade time.

[Papi]

You're right Eclipse, atleast 16mb video card is required.

[Pädi]

This happens in Ep1 and 2: I invaraibly get thrown back to windows during combat situations, more often than not in F10 mode. Sometimes just tracking a missile it throws me back to the desktop. I don't know whether something has blown up or not, it never gives me the chance to find out. And yes, I do have the /d1 in Ep1.
specs:
Celeron 633
Voodoo 5 5500 with latest (and last(?)drivers)
SBlive
win98se
224 MB RAM
Erm, anything else relevant?
Oh yeah, 4X FSAA (got 'jumping' without it)
Screen and game resolution at 960x720, 16 bit.

[Pädi]

Ok, did a bit more investigating. I forgot to mention that I can't play the 3000ad logo, it gives me an error message saying the file has no video content, just clicking OK takes me to the main menu no probs. I definately get a crash when it trys to play some explosions. this got me thinking, so I went to the folder which contains all the .avi files and tried to play them. The logo avi won't play, telling me I have an incorrect decompressor or something like that (I'm at work at the mo, so I can't remember the exact text) and tries to log on to the internet (I didn't want to as I was outside my free connection time, tight bastard, yes I know). It also does the same with some (but not all) of the explosion .avi files. I'm assuming this is my problem. I'll try again tonight. Question is, what is my PC trying to connect to, an updated Media player? And will this solve my crashing problem?

Update:
Attempts at playing the previously non-playing avi's resulted in the downloading of a Cinepak from Microsoft, and now they all play except Xpl01 giving me the following error message:

No combination of filters could be found to render the stream. (Error=80040218)

So I just copied and renamed another of the Xplo.avi files. However, the logos still won't play, giving me this message:

Unable to download an appropriate decompressor. (Error=80040200)

The music plays though.
Any ideas anyone?

[ 07-03-2001: Message edited by: Paddy Gregory ]

[Supreme Cmdr]

Install Media Player and you'll get all the needed codecs.

[Pädi]

Ok, to be honest, I thought it was already intalled.
Maybe not.

Edit: Yes, it is already installed, as I thought. Any other ideas?

[ 07-03-2001: Message edited by: Paddy Gregory ]

[Commander Jamont]

maybe install windows media player 7?

[Cmdr Nova]

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Posted by crivens

Hmmmmm, the HUD graphics flash sparodically.

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Same prob here. Episode 1 works fine, but it's E2 that has that problem. My system:

Celeron 500
64MB Ram
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 (Rage 128 Chipset)
Windows ME
Default Drivers
DirectX 8

Will try upgrading drivers tonite. First IA loads, and kicks me to windows when it's supposed to start playing. The 3 others have strange flashing HUD, all icons flashing, and menu (the blue ingame menu when you click on an icon on the left) is transparent/flashing too. The huge moving box glitch on the ground is present, too, but read FAQ and know about ATI's driver problems with that.

[ 07-03-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

[ 07-03-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

[Pädi]

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Originally posted by Commander Jamont:
maybe install windows media player 7?

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Aha! That would be it then, I'm still on 5.2.

[Baloogan]

Hi I d/l ed this demo yesterday, but i cant get it to work...
All it does is flash my icons, and stop working, not locked but the demo is not working,

Speks:

Celeron 366,
64 MB NVRAM
ATI Rage Pro Turbo

Anyone have this same problem?

Only happens with E2, E1 still works fine...

[Baloogan]

Bah it's time to upgrade anyway,

*Rips out Rage pro turbo card*
*Hitting -6MB- Vid card, only 6 MB? ahh crap, how did i run EP1?*

[Cmdr Nova]

Baloogan, is that prob with the ingame icons? Or the main menu?

Mine is ingame, and I believe it's a Rage problem. I have a Rage 128 (16mb Video Ram), which has been working with all direct x games I've played.

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Upgraded to latest drivers. Some help, but no avail. IA1 finally starts to run, then after you leave the station, when the cockpit is supposed to show, it kicks to windows. Still have ingame HUD and icon glitching.

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In episode 3, I went up, and exited the planet, and it went to windows, too.

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Yes, I truly beleive it is the ATI Rage that is causing it, but I, too, am curious as to how I got E1 to run, and can still play it right now.

[ 07-04-2001: Message edited by: Cmdr Nova ]

[Baloogan]

E1 used D7, i think that is the prob

[Pädi]

Right, I've downloaded and installed Media Player 7.1 and I still get the same error messages.
Edit:
And now it plays like a slide-show. What's going on? I'm not apportioning blame, I just want to know what to do next.

[ 07-04-2001: Message edited by: Paddy Gregory ]

[Cmdr Nova]

Will try those brand new beta drivers soon, just for the heck of it.

[Baloogan]

Hi again, i got the E2 to work but only in windowed mode, can i get it to work in full screen mode. Could anyone help, please?

[Baloogan]

I get this error when i start up in full screen mode:

quote:

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BCMDEMO caused an invalid page fault in
module BCMDEMO.EXE at 015f:004dbda0.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=015f EIP=004dbda0 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0167 ESP=00c3f184 EBP=000001e0
ECX=01273db4 DS=0167 ESI=01f40190 FS=3477
EDX=00000001 ES=0167 EDI=00000430 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 08 52 6a 1d 50 ff 91 c8 00 00 00 b0 01 c2 04
Stack dump:
0042808c 00000001 00000280 01f40190 ffffffff 00000000 bff7b30e 01180000 00000000 01fa16a0 00c3f22c 01257e3c 00000001 00000391 00000010 00c3f1d8

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Someone plz help.