ChickenShwarma on 19/10/2008 at 17:52
Hello.
I've searched, and tried everything recommended here on the board regarding movie/codec issue, but after 2 days of trying, I'm about to just give up.
I'm trying to play System Shock 2 with the latest patch on Vista 32 with C2D. I can install the program just fine. DDfix can be applied just fine, and the Darkengine Widescreen can ben install just fine as well.
The problem is the Indeo 5 codec. Trying to play the movie file at any point will crash/freeze the game, or even Media Player if I try to watch the AVI directly. When I try to install the codec from the original System Shock 2 CD, it tells me that a newer version is already on my system, and it will not let me install the oldver version that is on the original CD.
How do I hunt down the newer codec that I don't need, and uninstall it??? If I can figure that out, I can register the proper, older Indeo codec with Vista without any problem.
Please help! I'm about to give up!
Matt
Flower on 22/10/2008 at 20:31
I've got this same issue. There's a suggestion in the big tech help thread that if you have ffdshow installed, you could direct it to not be used when running the program SShock2.exe, and this would probably solve the problem, but I can't find that option anywhere in the ffdshow menu. If anyone's found it, could you please post a screenshot of it because I spent a frustrating 30 minutes digging through all the ffdshow config tools and came up with nothing?
ChickenShwarma on 24/10/2008 at 22:12
I finally was able to work around the video issue.
I installed a codec pack called K Lite codec pack, 424f beta, and during installation, chose the Indeo 5 codec.
I'm not entirely sure how, as I did not uninstall the newer version as I thought was the original problem, but it is working now.
Flower on 26/10/2008 at 15:15
Thanks! I went and picked up the 4.2.5 version of the K-Lite pack, clicked "no" on every prompt to uninstall existing codecs (because they work just fine), then deselected every other codec but Indeo 4 and 5 from the installation list, and voila: the videos work now.
