capnobvious on 4/10/2008 at 08:24

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I'm hoping someone can help me get to the bottom of this, I've been doing a lot of searching and so far nothing I've found has 100% fixed it. though I did get further, heres the explanation:

I installed SS2 for the first time in a long time, This time I have a Nvidia 8800 GTS 512mb Video card, and a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66ghz.

(The EXE is in fact in Windows 98/Me compatibility mode, I've also tried 95)

First I tried ImageCFG and I had nothing but problems trying to run the game, the game would just out right crash when I tried to start a game. I deleted my Install after finding DDFix, and started an entire fresh install just using DDFix. Now I'm able to get through the main menus with no crashes. I find my old binds reset them and try to start a game... and it crashes, but in a new way.

It looks like the game just black screens... and I can see my taskbar as well as the top of the window like its in Windowed mode. So I figured maybe some windowed setting got changed, I checked around. Found the windowed option, turned it on and off and nothing changed. It seems when ever I start the game it just locks up entirely and I can see the borders of the window. I am hoping someone can help me figure out what is causing this issue. Thanks so much.

I am running the 175.16 Nvidia drivers

Edit: I am running DDFix 1.3.11b (acording to the readme). I also tried 1.1.1 and had no luck with that either. And here is an image of what the problem looks like: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/capnobvious/BrokenSS2.png) Crash Image

capnobvious on 4/10/2008 at 11:23

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Tried that just now, same problem occurs sadly.

Edit: I reinstalled again, used the SS2 tool to just install everything but the DDFix, seeing if that worked. if I do that, it allows me to use the main menu fine, once I start a game after a simmiler problem occurs, but the screen goes black... nothing happens at all instead of seeing the visual window outline. Figured I'd give that a try so it would add the resolution into my game, but after checking the cam.cfg it didnt add it. sooo *shrug* trying everything I am...

I run a dual monitor setup, I disabled my secondary and tried again, it didnt work. I've now also tried making NOD32 (antivirus) ignore everything in the SShock2 folder, that also didnt work.