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Old 05-19-2001, 01:51 PM   #25
legolas
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Hi all! Well I just wanted to pop in and say a few words...

First of all I think it's a great idea starting this thread, it could help lots of people running the game. I too had some problems running the game, specifically when exiting town. The game allways crashes and returns to windows for no reason.

My specs once more:
AMD TB 800 MHz
Asus A7V MB
256 RAM
GeForce 2MX (converted to Quadro 2MXR)
Nvidia Detonator 12.xx drivers
DirectX 7, 7a, 8
Windows 98
SB Live!
13BG Quantum FB HD with 800Megs free space after install
Full and minimum install tried.

I too tried every suggestion posted including drivers,patch,switching 3D hardware acceleration completely off,resizing swap file,software and DirectX rendering methods with any detail combinations, and even tried switching PCI slots of my SBlive! with RealMagic Hollywood Plus MPEG card so that there would be no IRQ sharing between the AGP display card and SBLive!. (They were both sharing IRQ 11 before switching SBLive! to another slot).

First I thought it must be an Athlon CPU/MB combo platform problem but when I saw snoekie's post who has a PIII I know it'not that.
I am convinced now that it is a GeForce problem and unfortunately there is no work around to it well at least until a TECH patch will be available.

The strange thing is that even though the game doesn't run in Windows 98 which it supports, I tried a minimum installation in Windows 2000 Professional (which is theoritically not supported by the game) and to my suprise it worked fine! There are no more crashes and I am not thrown out to Windows each time I leave town. I can explore the wilderness outside town at last and have the joy of being killed by a group of bandits just to the right of town, as any of you people can! At least this is a normal and proud way of dying! Anyway, there are other things which I can't do when running in Win2k. For example "Gareth" never shows up, the right gate exiting town which leads to the graveyard can't open, it does not flash bright when you move the mouse over it, only way out of town is the left gate. Some buildings in town are not accessible to, so I guess the game really doesn't support Windows2000. But the crash problem is not happening here even with DirectX8 installed, isn't that strange?

Anyway, sorry for the long post, hope I helped somebody....
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