Problems with movies/cutscenes... - by labrekk
theBlackman on 3/6/2008 at 17:22
It sounds like someone is confused.
If you go to CONTROL PANEL, and select USER ACCOUNTS, you will see if there is an Administrator AND another user or two.
If you mean for internet access, or forum registration, then that has no bearing on the ADMINISTRATOR/USER setup on your computer.
labrekk on 4/6/2008 at 01:24
I installed Thief 2 again tonight and it's worse than before...As I have no savegame (it's a fresh install), the game crashes to desktop as soon as I click on the .exe because i wants to play the intro...It sucks big time...
What can I do to fix it? Please, help me...
labrekk on 4/6/2008 at 01:55
OK, I finally found the solution in the post below, changing the System Shock 2 instructions with Thief 2. I did not have ffdshow installed, but DivX400. I uninstalled DivX400, installed ffdshow, then did the "Don't use ffdshow in" thing with the thief2 exe.
Problem: After Install, game crashes on launch. It verifies the copy
protection, then the screen would go black, and a few seconds later I
would get "System Shock 2 has encountered a problem and needs to close."
Clicking on more info reports it was related to the LGVID.ax node.
What DID NOT work:
I tried the multi-player patch, same problem.
I tried all versions of SHOCK2.exe I could find. All failed to solve my
problem.
I tried all compatibility modes on all SHOCK2.EXE's I found with cold
boots in between each test, and still no love.
I tried adding 'safe_texture_manager' to user.cfg, and/or cam.cfg, and/or
shock.cfg.
I tried renaming the cutscenes directory to something else.
I even re-encoded the cut-scenes to use Xvid instead of Indeo with no
success.
What DID work:
I finally tried renaming LGVID.ax to 'Copy of LGVID.ax' and FINALLY was
able to start and play the game, but this stopped all cut-scenes from
playing. I missed the cut-scenes too much to give up on them yet.
The cause turned out to be ffdshow. When a video is played on my system,
it went from the indeo codec filter, then to ffdshow, then to the renderer.
To fix my problem I had to run the ffdshow Video Decoder Configuration,
select 'Info & Debug' from the options on the left, and then in the Debug
section of the menu I placed a check in the box for 'Don't use ffdshow
in:'. I then added 'SHOCK2.EXE;' to the list by typing in the field
provided. a semicolon should separate program names if you have more than
one in that list.
example: 'Oblivion.exe;explorer.exe;shock2.exe;'
The game now works perfectly after applying the DDFix.
Hopefully this can help others with the same problems as I had.
