Fatal error starting from Syganstar (resolved)

[eric3045]

I have tried to play as the insurgent career but every time I try to start it the game crashes. It crashes when I leave the station and the game finishes loading. I get the message "Fatal error error opening Sygan/PTYPE014. My system is:

Athalon 650mhz

Win 98 se.

384 meg ram

64 meg geforce2 mx200

Also I seem to have a problem that whenever I try to shutdown windows after playing I can't. The monitor shuts off, but my cpu fan is still running, and the green light outside my tower remains lit. I have to manually reset to shut down.

[ 11-21-2001: Message edited by: eric3045 ]

[ 11-21-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

[ 11-22-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

[Supreme Cmdr]

Works fine here.

Can you run it in a window (/w1) and then post the exact message?

Also, what game options did you choose? e.g. race, caste, career, launch station etc. I need COMPLETE info.

[ 11-21-2001: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

[eric3045]

So far it seems that it crashes when i start at Syganstar, I tried one of the other locations, and the game ran fine, but when I tried Syganstar I get the message "error opening Sygan/PTYPE014"

I'm playing as the terran insurgants, I have tried multiple ships, and both sexes. Yhe same thing happens it crashes when I leave the station at Syganstar.

[ 11-21-2001: Message edited by: eric3045 ]

[Supreme Cmdr]

OK, I'll check it out in a bit and get back to you.

[Supreme Cmdr]

oops! Wrong file name.

Here's the fix (which will also be in the patch)

Look in the PTE2STETEX folder for PTYPE14.TGA. Just copy* it to PTYPE014.TGA.

Try that.

*I didn't say to rename it, I said copy it so that you have both PTYPE14.TGA and PTYPE014.TGA files in that folder.

[eric3045]

Thanks SC I did what you said and it works great!

[Supreme Cmdr]

You can delete that PTYPE014.TGA file now. The patch fixes this problem automatically.