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Black screen At start of GAME
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:28 am
by johnnyrash89
OK I run XP
I bought it, downloaded it, unzipped it, INstalled it.
Double clicked the icon on my desktop.
Autoplay starts up.
Then I click Play.
I get a black screen, little Red box says loading disappears.
Some music plays.
I can see my mouse courser.
And GAME doesn't respond.
I have to Ctrl Alt Delete to get out.
PLease help I payed 40 bucks for this.
tyty
RE: Black screen At start of GAME
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:31 am
by Andrew Williams
Hi
This is because you don't have the video codec
try holding down ctrl when you launch.
then turn off videos
alternatively
download the intel codec from CSO Downloads in command centre
Command Centre\CSO Downloads\Utilities\ Intel Codec for CoI
then run that before launching. (only needs to be run once)
RE: Black screen At start of GAME
Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:13 am
by Steely Glint
I have the exact same problem - cursor only - in Vista. I have downloaded the codec and tried holding down CTRL. Neither works. What else might I try?
RE: Black screen At start of GAME
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:45 pm
by BR_Adler
RE: Black screen At start of GAME
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:26 am
by soundhack
I didn't know about this codec business when I came across this problem. What I did was deleted the ATOMLOGO.AVI file, copied one of the other AVI files (e.g. MSLOGO.AVI) and renamed that to ATOMLOGO.AVI.
Doing this let me progress to the main menu, after which I selected options and disabled videos.
It appears at least some of the other files are not encoded using this Intel codec, and only the ATOMLOGO. Weird!
RE: Black screen At start of GAME
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:29 am
by Andrew Williams