Unable to play scenario or campaign

chademueller · #1 June 27th, 2005, 05:18 AM

Seems my problem is a little different from others.

I get to the screen where you deploy units but nothing happens. I have to end task in task manager to close the game.

Or I get to the screen where you start the scenario & a blank screen appears. I have to end task in task manager to close the game.

In both cases the system does not crash but nothing happens until I end WinSPMBT using the Windows Task Manager.

System has a 1Ghz processor , 128Mb of RAM & Windows XP.

DRG · #2 June 27th, 2005, 12:26 PM

Go to START on your desktop and the type dxdiag into RUN and see if that diagnostic reports any problems. Some people have had to run the Game in "win98 mode." from properties

Don

chademueller · #3 June 27th, 2005, 01:51 PM

Well Don that was interesting.

dxdiag found no problems

When running the game in Win98 compatibility mode I get to the screen where you deply units but the game freezes there. For scenarios where units a pre-deployed the game quits to desktop.

chademueller · #4 June 27th, 2005, 02:31 PM

Sorry Mobhack, I should have mentioned that I have already tried that.

The system is a Gateway with the video card integrated into the motherboard but I have no problems running other games that are MUCH more graphics intensive than winSPMBT.

chademueller · #5 June 27th, 2005, 02:47 PM

Tried windowed mode as opposed to fullscreen & am able to start a scenario but get a runtime error after a minute or two if I turn the sound on.

Mobhack · #6 June 27th, 2005, 01:26 PM

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chademueller said:
Seems my problem is a little different from others.

I get to the screen where you deploy units but nothing happens. I have to end task in task manager to close the game.

Or I get to the screen where you start the scenario & a blank screen appears. I have to end task in task manager to close the game.

In both cases the system does not crash but nothing happens until I end WinSPMBT using the Windows Task Manager.

System has a 1Ghz processor , 128Mb of RAM & Windows XP.

And the video card is a 32MB one, or less?

Your RAM should be enought to handle the game, if you diont have too many other programmes running inthe background, including task-bar applications. Though 256MB is probably better.

I would try with sound off, as the sound system allocates the sound buffers on the fly, so not using the sound means no memory buffers (and no com objects as well

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On the game options master Control Panel - misc screen - switch interface mouse click to OFF. In the game's main screen, select the PREFERENCES button and switch BATTLE FX and SOUND FX both to OFF.

Additionaly - try it in 640 screen mode, especially if you don't have the recommended minimum of a 32+MB video card.

If your video card is one of those that grab system RAM, instead of having it's own built-in RAM chips then you have less than 128MB system RAM to play with. The system requires a video card, and not a shared graphics video unit as found in some budget machines.

One other thing to try on a low memory system (especially if there is a shared memory video unit) may be to increase the windows swap file (virtual memory) size. Start->Help enter swap in the Index tab, read the swapfile help section in Windows help.

Cheers
Andy