SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!

Installing the Codecs from Willow's link fixed it.

Thank you ever so much for your kind assistance.

A new victory for the techies. I told you! :D

Phew! *wipes forehead* You had me worried there when you said you couldn't download the codec. Strange site that really. It looks respectable but it says that Indeo 5 is incorporated for free, when Indeo 5 isn't freeware at all. [img]graemlins/awcrap.gif[/img]

The ir41_32.ax file is the codec file for Indeo 4. Sometimes you have the necessary file but it isn't registered, which you then have to do manually.

Then one thing I thought you could change was the video entry. You could've set it to C:\Windows or anything at all. I'm guessing that should have bypassed the intro. ;)

And quicktime didn't work? Strange. Those apple codecs should be able to replace the Indeo version.

OK but it DID work out! YAY! [img]smile.gif[/img] Enjoy the game! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Oh and Macoati, the intro aren't avi files. They're bik files. A very frustrating video format since you can't do anything with it. The PDF format of video files. :D Of course nowadays there are stand alone players for this format as well. [img]smile.gif[/img] Now I'm off to see if I can tweak Virtualdub to toy with the bik files. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Oh and the no files in the zip file could be due to a cluster error. Run a checkdisk of the drive just to make sure. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 09-16-2003, 02:35 PM: Message edited by: WillowIX ]

blk files...forgot about that [img]smile.gif[/img] was stuck on the townmasks, thanks for the reminder! ... hmm... you're right, not much can be done... maybe I'll see what I can do to them tonight. Will report later.


Glad it worked for you Mr. Creosote! Enjoy!!!

Way to go WILLOWIX

[ 09-16-2003, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: macoati ]

Create a file with notepad blank
rename it to the opening.bik filename ( I dont know what it is offhand.\)

this is a way to get around trouble with bink files.

Everyone who has XP with service pack 1 INCLUDED has this problem. Not the old xp where u donwload sp1.

And I assume windows server 2003. So its that recent, it affects a handful of games almost all with the opening movie.