inability to play game

[Erik Rutins]

tomas,

ORIGINAL: tomas1931
Did the same thing and game plays after a blank splash screen but when I tried to exit after a battle the game froze and again had to alt tab Unfortunately there appears to be a lot of bugs This game should still be in development we are becoming beta testers
Disappointed

I think the video issue is a simple one - some codecs were not included in the final installer and I'm about to upload them here (we'll also include them in the first patch and updated instaler). The second crash may be a fluke or related to the first, but let's fix one thing at a time. Fortunately, very few customers are having problems, unfortunately you're one of them, so we'll work to get it working for you.

Please download the attached zip file and run the Codec Installer included there, then reboot and let me know if that helps at all.

Regards,

- Erik

[tomas1931]

I dowmloaded the codec and then rebooted It allowed me to get past the first splash screen on to the setup panel I then played first sargeant Lincoln as human and advanced game I then hit the ok and go to the second splash screen which again does not chang I again have to alt tab i the get two copies of the game and one plays trying to exit requires a taskmanager and then I get a microsoft error I also installed the new adobe flashplayer 9 which made no difference

[Great_Ajax]

Downloaded the codec and the Flash Update from Adobe and then rebooted. First try and the game hung. Next five tries and the game worked just fine and on the sixth, it hung again. Resizing desktop to 1024x768 seemed to not make a difference. On the positive side, I noticed that if the game start hangs, all I have to do is press the "exit" button on the main screen and the game immediately kicks in. No more alt-tabs to get the game to start.

Trey

[ezjax]

Ok, I believe I am having the same problem. After game loads I get opening screen ref (1) and all seems normal, ( I here music and flash videos randomize). If click Local Game or PBEM Game, music stops and Game navbar locks and system hangs on Opening Screen but flash videos still randomize. I Don’t have this problem with the other buttons (Load Local Game, Load PBEM, Remote Game, Credits). My work around like others is to ALT/TAB which then kicks game over to the Setup Screen ref (2) . I can also get to the setup screen by first clicking on credits and then clicking local game and will go to setup screen.

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dxdiag

[Hertston]

Hmmm.. an 'intermittent'. Agreed on changing resolution, that appears to have been coincidental. One time in six or so its OK, the rest it isn't, although just hitting the Windows key does the trick.

Flash player was up to date, codec installer run (I'm pretty sure they were OK, too), drivers up to date and problem still there. Not a killer, but I think you guys may need to think again as to what's causing it.

[histgamer]

I have a laptop with the following specs

1.6 GHZ dual Core Processor
1.5 Gigs of Ram
128 mb video card (but its a normal laptop one so just a standard random video card not gforce or any gaming card or anything)

should the game work fine on my laptop?

[Gil R.]

ORIGINAL: flanyboy

I have a laptop with the following specs

1.6 GHZ dual Core Processor
1.5 Gigs of Ram
128 mb video card (but its a normal laptop one so just a standard random video card not gforce or any gaming card or anything)

should the game work fine on my laptop?

Here are the minimum requirements. You should have no trouble.

* Minimum System Requirements
* Windows 2000 / XP
* 500 MHz CPU
* 1GB RAM (512MB for low animation)
* 32 MB Video Card, DirectX 7 Compatible
* Sound Card (Windows XP Compatible)
* 1GB Hard Drive space
* CD-Rom
* DirectX 7+
* Adobe® Flash® Player 8+ (for intro screen only)

[Hertston]

ORIGINAL: ezjax

Ok, I believe I am having the same problem. After game loads I get opening screen ref (1) and all seems normal, ( I here music and flash videos randomize). If click Local Game or PBEM Game, music stops and Game navbar locks and system hangs on Opening Screen but flash videos still randomize. I Don’t have this problem with the other buttons (Load Local Game, Load PBEM, Remote Game, Credits). My work around like others is to ALT/TAB which then kicks game over to the Setup Screen ref (2) . I can also get to the setup screen by first clicking on credits and then clicking local game and will go to setup screen.

Certainly exactly the same problem as me. As you say, everything works fine if you just select the credits first (didn't think of that![8D])

[tomas1931]

To date other than the codec which should have been present there has been no answers the game still freezes unless you hit the credit button and if you want to exit the game either crashes or you have to hit the taskmaster and end the program to date the game is unplayable because of these problems