Phil S
-
Posts
8 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Never
Posts posted by Phil S
-
-
I did upgrade on a freshly formatted drive so there should have been no problem there, however, I should point out that I tried running two hard drives with two OS's XP and '98 the problem was that with a dual boot system the '98 drive was very slow. I tried to format the drive but the computer would only allow an ntfs format when both systems were on fat32 so what I did was, I deleted everything on the '98 drive and use it to store my game folders and it's on this drive that I tried to install CMBO with the problems listed below. When I double-click on the icon my screen goes black and my computer whistles. I therefore tried to install it straight onto my XP drive with the same results. I tested DirectX as you suggested and everything appears to be fine, any ideas?
Phil
-
Hi there, I recently changed operating systems to XP from '98 and since that momentous occasion have been unable to even load the game up. It installs without a problem but as soon as I try to load it up my screen goes black and the computer whistles disturbingly. I'm running XP as I've said, I have an AMD Duron 650Mhz processor, a Radeon DDR 32MB graphics card (with a beta test driver recommended by someone on this esteemed board) and a sound card built in to my motherboard (SiS 7018) any suggestions?
Phil
-
"Yep, that's another difference with the CDV I had forgotten about. Because of what CDV wanted on the CD, there is only the CDV intro and no QuickTime movie. There is also no Mac version on the same CD as there is with the Internet distributed version. Apparently CDV wanted much tighter copy-protection code on their CD's and these things had to be dropped in order to fit it on one CD. "
Thanks for the insight. I've got to say I've been dealing with computer games and the problems they bring up for a while and this forum has shown me the most amazing performance all round.Other companies should see this and take some serious notes, thanks to everyone who has assisted me the game works perfectly now and I also know why there is no movie. A small price to pay for a phenomenal game.
Phil Sobel
(Not Phyllis
-
Nope it isn't on the CD at all, all I can find is a avi forlder that contains a 6 or 7 mb .avi file that shows the cdv intro bit, where the hell is the movie??!!
Phil
-
It's funny that you should be discussing this, you can't get rid of the intro movie and I can't find it on the CD and have never seen it, any ideas?
Phil
-
I updated DirectX and my driver as instructed and guess what? IT WORKS PERFECTLY!!! THANK YOU. I just won the tutorial scenario and though I have much ot learn I'm well on the way.
Phil
(still can't find the movie and the briefing screens are still small)
-
I just bought Combat Missions and despite specs well above that demanded by the required specs on the box the game screens ie. the orders menu, the hotkeys menu flashes when I bring them up, also the intro movie never runs and doesn't appear to exist additionally when I initially ran the game and it allowed me to pick graphics card and resolution it was flashing so badly I could hardly read it and it only became clear on the lowest possible spec in the end I managed to decipher the options by reading the intermittent flashes and selected the first option I got the flashing I mentioned earlier not to mention the fact that all the other menu screens are really small. I'm running Windows 98 with SB16 sound card, ATI Radeon DDR 32mb 3D graphics card with 196mb RAM and a Pentium II 450Mghz processor. HELP!!!!! It looks like a really great game and I'd hate to have to give it back.
Phil Sobel
(UK)
I loathe Windows XP, HELP!!
in Combat Mission - Tech Support
Posted
Hi there, rest easy I went to ATI's website and downloaded the latest driver for XP and all is well. Thanks for your assistance.
Phil