04-22-2002, 08:48 AM | #11 |
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Lol, I guess the thread was a bit confusing... The error messages stopped appearing when I logged in as administrator. The spells are working and it was the rat pie that froze the game (dropped it and let Rethpian starve...) I still canīt disarm chests though! Sometimes it works but most often I get a system sound, the game freezes and I get bumped to windows, lockpicks are working though! I tried to bust back my diretx to 7.0a but that didnīt work (and I need dx8 for M&MIX and Max Payne)! As for cancelling processes, i shut down my antivirus, firewall, cdrw sofware and scheduler. But then thereīs still 20+ processes on and I have no idea which to shutdown (got win2k)! Iīll try and apply the patch ,my rogue to be assassin wonīt like it though (lol), but then again I think he feels heīs getting discriminated by not being able to disarm locks or chests... Any other tips will be extremely appreciated!! Canīt get enough of this game!
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04-22-2002, 09:37 AM | #12 |
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And the patch didnīt solve it either...
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04-22-2002, 01:20 PM | #13 |
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Yikes!!
Have you tried running the game in SOFTWARE mode?? Not really sure if that is related to this problem or not but it's the only thing I (a non techie) can think of at the moment. Come on, techie gurus, show your stuff!!!! Wyv |
04-22-2002, 01:33 PM | #14 |
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Close this thread, lol!!! The game is working again!!! Thanks all!!! Now Iīll just find all those chests and disarm them! Woohooo!!!!
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04-22-2002, 01:42 PM | #15 |
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Do you know which fix corrected your problem?
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04-22-2002, 02:01 PM | #16 |
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I sure do! I just ran this:
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\regsvr32.exe c:\windows\apppatch\slayerui.dll" which will give win95 compatability! Itīs in the helpdesk page 7!
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08-08-2003, 07:25 AM | #18 |
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I am fighting with crap2000, too and I am getting similar crashes as well [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img]
My current hardware is the following: Motherboard: K7N2 Delta L CPU: Athlon XP 2200+ RAM 1 GB (That's why I cannot run w98. I am not about to pull a memory chip out of my computer whenever the windows crashes such a way that a reinstallation is necessary). HD Caviar 40 GB Video: GeForce Ti 4200 TD 8x Sound: SB Live 512 CD, CDRW, Zip, etc. Operating system: eCS and, well, crap2000 with sp2 [img]graemlins/confused5.gif[/img] Here is my current experience: 1. Be an administrator. You cannot play as a user. Don't forget that a "user" under Neanderthal Technology is a being which cannot be trusted at all and which must not be allowed to install or run anything, not even a printer driver. All games are "near kernel" applications that try to compensate inefficiency of windows by using "low level" APIs. Such applications cannot be run at the user level successfuly. 2. Unpack the .avi files by means of Virtual Dub. Otherwise, you cannot play at all. At this moment, I was able of ALMOST everything - except using items on another objects (using keys on locks or using the Bauble Stick on the crystal) but I was able to use potions on myself or cast spells on myself. I was also able to pick items from the ground, disarming chests, entering all houses in Valeia and so on. I was also able to insert crystals into receptacles. 3. Activate the compatibility layer and play using the w95 layer. This seems to solve the problems with the keys and similar items. Well, the result is still unsatisfactory: a) The game crashes significantly more often than it did under w98. b) Once the game crashes, I get a permanent false white cursor in the middle of the action window. Quititng the game and restarting it does not help, the cursor is there again! Only restarting crap2000 helps! c) The Save Game screen is extremely jerky. Nevertheless, I am able to run the game somehow. Note: I have removed DirectX and replaced it with DirectX comming with W&W. Therefore, I see the following possible sources of Willow's problems: 1. sp2 at least is needed. 2. some application thread is guilty, the system threads should not be guilty. 3. incompatibility between DirectX and crap2000.
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08-09-2003, 07:11 PM | #19 |
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ah please. some tech guru help us? ist this "memory-thingy-instruction" error, merly part of a greater conspiracy against "the user" so that i have to log in as admin??? i'm still using win xp.
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08-09-2003, 10:32 PM | #20 |
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Welcome to the boards, eNTi. May your journeys in the Gael Serran bring you glory, honor, and wealth.
As for the admin login, I suspect so. There are certain things which just have to be installed as administrator to work properly, and others that have to be run as administrator. If you're running into problems and can't find other ways around them (have you checked the Tech Tips thread?), try the patch or administrator. But don't blame us, eh? Some of our more senior posters were the ones who found a way to get the game to run on Win2k and XP when the publishers said it couldn't be done (and may still say so, for all I know). If there's another way around it, we can help ferret it out.
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