Moghedian on 6/7/2008 at 22:32

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T2 had been working just fine ... up until I got back from vacation this week. Here we go with the long background story:
I've been attempting to help out with a beta. During the course of that, an odd error occurred where the mission would just crash to desktop at a specific point. No one else seemed to have that issue, so I attempted to fix it by removing T2, and putting a fresh and new installation. It had been a few years since it was installed anyway. (This also meant the removal and reinstall of darkloader 4.3)

(There are multiple copies of the T2 directory on this machine for other missions being built. The original installation was copied to other directories, years ago, and they were working fine. Not anymore).

So... this morning I removed T2, and reinstalled.
Yes, the control panel was used to remove the program.
The installation program ran fine, and gave the 'installation complete' message.
Darkloader was reinstalled, and re-set up.

I went into darkloader, pointed the program to the beta, and tried to run it. The intro movie ran (for the original game, which wasn't supposed to happen because the beta had its own) and then the game loaded. Interestingly, there were no sounds except for conversations, and the sound from the intro. No footsteps, no bell, no texture noises at all...no sound but conversation. Well...ok...bad install. Reset Darkloader to original, removed darkloader, removed T2, reinstalled just T2. No darkloader. No beta. Just T2.

The same thing happened. No sound other than the cutscene and intro. Redid it. Same result. Tried the volume test in the start menu... no sound at all. Fiddled with the sound settings. No difference. Reinstalled again. A new difference: now the mission crashes to desktop as soon as the mission loads. Removed the ; from in front of the safe texture manager. Again it went to desktop instead of loading the first mission. Checked the other copies of T2. They also CTD instead of loading the mission.

This problem is only in T2. TG seems to be running just fine.

The system is a win98se, that is otherwise working fine. More (http://www.darklurker.com/othermiscstuff/SystemReport.htm) system details than you can shake a stick at .

I think the issue may be that the program doesn't know where its pieces and parts are. Why none of them seem to know this is puzzling.

At any rate, I could use a clue as to how to fix it.

Thank you in advance for your help, or at least for reading through this long and winding T2 whine :)

Moghedian on 9/7/2008 at 04:08

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OK. I'll give uninstalling and then reinstalling directx and the sound drivers a whirl after backing up the stuff that is already on this computer. That hasn't been done in a while, so it's way overdue for that anyway. I'll post back and let you all know how it went.

:laff: Yeah, the footstep sounds are always pretty quiet. I thought my hearing was going.

I did have some luck in getting T2 to run, although it is still soundless. I went to reinstall darkloader, and found it was already installed in a directory it wasn't meant to be put in. I removed it manually (it wasn't removable via the control panel) and now T2 will load, and display the missions.

It'll take me a couple of days to do the back up and reinstalls because of the work schedule.

Thanks for the idea :thumb: