Bloody $*!!$ Game

[Paul Cunningham]

Ok people i need your help !

I just bought B17 by Microprose. Poxy thing refuses to work. start the game, get the splash screen, screen changes resolution, changes back. Thats it.

Tried all the usual stuff, latest drivers etc.

Did a clean install of win98, installed only VIA drivers, sound and graphics. No difference.

Hardware is

ASUS A7V Motherboard
Duron 700
256MB Ram
Soundblaster 16 PCi
Voodoo 3 3000
Network card
ISDN card
DVD
Philips CDRW
Epson 640U scanner
Epson 880 Printer

HELP ME!!! I nedd my fix of bombing things.

[LORE]

This happened to me at home with Soldior of forutune. My problem was to part, first, the latest drivers for my voodoo 3,3000 then I could get into the game, but it wouldn't run and give me weird errors. Then I did some research and found that you MUST have the latest directX to run it. Have you downloaded this? That could be your problem, especialy if it is a brand new game. Let me know if this works.

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Beware the penguin

[Paul Cunningham]

Thanks for the reply

Well, on my current installation I have DirectX 8.

When I did the clean install, I let the game install directX 7.0a

[MAYHEM]

Haverun into this with a few flight sims. Try this:
Teporarily change desktop resolution to 640x480

start the game (it should start)

change the game resolution to 1024x768 and save changes then exit

change desktop resolution back to normal settings

start the game again

this fixed the problem I had getting several games to start including Janes F/A18 and USAF.

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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

[Paul Cunningham]

Sadly Mayhem,

This didn't work

[DOS Tech]

Direct X 8.0, get it, love it, and play your game.

[thirdfey]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DOS Tech:
Direct X 8.0, get it, love it, and play your game. </font>

previous posts, read them, understand them, love them, and the game still doesn't play . he tried directx 8 and directx 7.0a


have fun
tony

[Percy]

Hmmm. Do you have any background software other than systray running? Also, are any of your expansion cards (specifically I'm thinking of the video sound and/or network cards) sharing IRQs? I know everyone says that sharing IRQs on PCI cards is fine 'n dandy but my Linksys 10/100 wouldn't work unless it had its on happy little IRQ all to itself. I'm thinking this might be relevant because it also caused the video card (a Savage 4, AGP) to muck up during Windows install. Good luck with the game, hope you get to blast the crap out of things soon.

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Perseverance in all matters.

[Paul Cunningham]

No, I disbled all the background crap before playing. The thing is, I've got all manner of other games here ( 7 Gigs worth, I like my games ) All play perfectly. I've just got Combat flight simulator 2, it works.Superbike 2000 works etc. I do seem to remember reading once that some protection systems didn't like some CD drives, I'm wondering if it could be this.

[LORE]

Man, I am at a loss on this one, do you have another Rom drive you can put in you machine? Did you try the game on anyone elses computer to see if the actual CD could be defective. I have seen a few games come back to the store, (some microsoft WW2 game comes to mind) that just wouldn't work. New game out of the box was fine. I don't know what could be the problem.

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We may be through with the penguin, but the penguin may not be through with us

[gartmajo]

just a personal note/question - i had a phillips cd-rw. it was terrible. i never got it to repeat results. i had to reinstall windows something like 6 times and it always trashed my drive. i dont know if this involves your game or the errors you recieve, but i know that i never got my phillips drive working and it always gave me problems. does your cd-rw work reliably? how long have you had it? would you suggest it?

im just saying this because if you recently installed it, that could somehow probably cause messed up problems. it did for me.

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"imagination is more important that knowledge. knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world." - albert einstien

[Paul Cunningham]

I've had the philips CDRW about a month now, No reliability problems as such. I haven't made a coffee mat yet. The only annoying thing about it is the fact it takes ages to spin down.

I've resorted to emailing microprose about this, I'll let you know how it goes.