Frustrated, please give me some advice!!

[Guest]

I have a laptop, HP Pavillion 3370, AMD k62-550, 64 Meg RAM. I installed BC3000 2.0, got the sound running using the soundblaster driver, got the game to come up to the start new game screen, killed it and then applied the patch to 2.08, I am now getting a Invalid Page exception. Have no idea what the ^&*( that means and am hoping someone can help me figure it out.

Thanks in advance!!!

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CMDR Jaguar

GCV Excelsior

This is not just a game, It's a life unto itself!!

[Guest]

2.0 runs like a rock, but as soon as I install the patch to 2.08, I get the error above. Don't get it, help please!!

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CMDR Jaguar

GCV Excelsior

This is not just a game, It's a life unto itself!!

[Gallion]

1 - Patch up to v2.09.

2 - Redo the sound setup.exe at the dos prompt.

Post what happens after you do the above. Please provide more details as to the type of v-card/device that HP paperweight is using. I have had BC3K v2.09 running on both a IBM Thinkpad and a Compaq Presario paperweights (aka laptop ) without any problems.

TTFN

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Fleet Commander Gallion

(Pro Tem)

GCV Graf Spee, Starbase Cerberus

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Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/Corsair Wing

"Run Silent, Run Deep"

Corsair Cove

Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

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[This message has been edited by Gallion (edited 12-17-2000).]

[Guest]

Thank you!!! will try that and let you know!!!

Don't want to add another response, so thought I'd add on here.

Went up to 2.09, have not added mappak, Am getting this response when it tried to go into the game. It plays the movie GREAT, but this is what happens.

Invalid Page exception

Fault location 0028:C0001FE7

Faulting component: VMM(01)+00000FE7

Interuption in Service: NONE

Playing with Config now, will let you know how that works.

These are the specs for this little "anchor"

HP Pavillion N3370

AMD K-6 2 550mhz

64 meg of ram

Trident Cyberblade i7 AGP (8420-64)

ESS Maestro audio

ESS Modem 56K, but it never connects that fast.

Matshita DVD-ROM SR8174

Hopefully that gives you what you need. Crossing my fingers, now to see if my little tweak with the config.sys did anything. Did not do anything!!! URGH!!!!

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CMDR Jaguar

GCV Excelsior

This is not just a game, It's a life unto itself!!

[This message has been edited by Jaguar (edited 12-17-2000).]

[This message has been edited by Jaguar (edited 12-17-2000).]

[Guest]

I believe that it's the sound card causing all the problems here. VMM sure looks like the soundcard driver. It has a DOS emulation driver, and I believe it is colliding with the windows drivers. Can anyone help me with this, PLEASE!!!

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CMDR Jaguar

GCV Excelsior

This is not just a game, It's a life unto itself!!

[Gallion]

Make sure that you apply the bc3kmappak.exe.

Try that and post result.

TTFN

[Guest]

Did all of it over again, got rid of the setup CFG file and HMIset file and redid the sound, and then tried to start, this time it killed the computer, literally turned it off and restarted it.

Once it had restarted, I again, killed setup cfg and the hmiset, redid the sound setup, and then tried to start the game. It is totally patched, for the 3rd time, from nothing!!!

It again gave me the same error message as above. have tried everything, I am STUMPED.

Again 2.0 runs like a rock, it's only after I apply the patches that this problem occurs.

The movie plays fine, it just crashes back to the desktop.

Frustrated beyond belief, have never had a problem getting BC3K to run on anything.

HELP!!! I want to play while I'm on the road!!!

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CMDR Jaguar

GCV Excelsior

This is not just a game, It's a life unto itself!!

[Gallion]

hmmm...not good. You may have a bad v2.08 patch file since v2.0 runs w/o any problems yet when you patch to v2.08 it crashes. Short of re-downloading and applying v2.08 anew I am stumped too.

TTFN

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Fleet Commander Gallion

(Pro Tem)

GCV Graf Spee, Starbase Cerberus

Fleet Leader - Wraith Fleet (Pro Tem)

Wing Leader - Wraith Fleet/Corsair Wing

"Run Silent, Run Deep"

Corsair Cove

Official Tester, Battlecruiser Series

Leader, Team 1

[Guest]

Actually, I did that too, downloaded the patch directly to the laptop from the site. Still a no go!!! Going to give it up for tonight, hopefully someone can come up with a new idea!! Thanks!!

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CMDR Jaguar

GCV Excelsior

This is not just a game, It's a life unto itself!!

[Charles Lindsey]

Uhhmmmm, have you read the faq?

Start over. Uninstall from Windows Control panel. Reinstall 2.0. Do not run sound setup or run the game. Patch to 2.09. Then run sound setup. Now you have to tweak your shortcut according to the faq.

Been a while but I think that's the procedure from the 2.09 FAQ.

Do all the other junk too like checking mouse drivers, etc.

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Vice Admiral Chavik

ICV Phoenix, Sygan Starstation (Sygan)

Fleet Leader - Balor Fleet

Official BC3K Tester

[Guest]

Thanks for the above, but have done ALL of that, 3 times so far and going for 4. 3rd time I didn't try to set up the game until ALL patches had been installed, crashed, and so deleted files as stated above. Still no dice. Oh, well, let my fryed mind get some sleep and maybe it'll come up with a solution overnight.

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CMDR Jaguar

GCV Excelsior

This is not just a game, It's a life unto itself!!

[aramike]

When you uninstall, make sure to manually delete the BC directory folder from your harddrive. Then, make sure you install to the default folder.