bogus on 21/3/2007 at 10:36
I've seen this game popping up all over the place lately, and, intrigued, i decided to snag a copy. So i've got the game, i've managed to install and run it, I've even played through the training missions. My problem starts right when i get to choose a job class. Regardless of which profession i choose, a loading screen pops up, and then the game dies, prompting me to send an error report. I've tried reinstalling, various compatibility modes and installed the patch with no luck. i read through the faq above but nothing in there helped. I'm hoping somebody here has an answer.
[edit] well after sifting through the mountains of "it doesnt work" posts in the faq i found my solution. creating a file named current fixed the crashing, now ive got no videos.
Bjossi on 21/3/2007 at 14:52
Maybe you need to register lgvid.ax every time before you run the game, or you simply need to reInstall the Indeo codec from the CD (iv5play.exe).
bogus on 22/3/2007 at 00:38
i've done the file registration thing but still have had no luck, i'll reinstall the codec and see what happens.
DanielC on 22/3/2007 at 00:49
Does your computer have more than one CPU?
bogus on 22/3/2007 at 03:14
nope just a single core, it's 64 bit but only one core. also, neither installing the codec nor registering the .ax file caused the video sequences to work.
june gloom on 22/3/2007 at 06:42
could it be the fact that it's 64 bit?
cosmicnut on 22/3/2007 at 09:03
All depends on if your running 64bit windows. It's a tad buggy (yes more buggy than normal windows :laff: ) and quite a lot of old drivers and support apps (like codecs) don't work
Aekeron on 22/3/2007 at 11:16
There's 3 videos that're useful iirc:
intro
cutscene in engineering
cutscene at end
...I don't really regard that as a spoiler.
Perhaps if you install VLC and someone nice posts up a list of which video to listen to when (without spoilers - not that hard really), you could just alt-tab at the right moments.
It's a bit annoying, but it beats spending hours faffing around with something that might well never work in XP64 (because it rocks so much).
june gloom on 22/3/2007 at 18:54
Quote Posted by Aekeron
cutscene in engineering
that's not a cutscene :) at least, not like the others that use a video file, it's done wholly in-game.
bogus on 23/3/2007 at 03:04
i don't use xp64, too much of a hassle. i s'pose i'll just have to do without cinematics. though i must say, the game is very intense. Even without knowing what's going on with the story. . .
