Game Unplayable - Staff please respond

[Jason2]

I feel frustrated. There should be a post included with SEIV's advertising that reads:

This product is incompatible with Dell laptops using Windows ME

I feel ripped. I love the game, and played it on my old computer (now given to charity) and eagerly anticipated many hours on my Inspiron 8100 laptop. Oh well. The game won't run unless I'm willing to let my computer sit for a half-hour first while on.

Urgh. I am a professional and often only have an hour a day to play (lunch)... at home I'm a new dad and that pretty much kills any playing.

I hope this will be addressed in a patch. I feel ripped off.

Jason

[Richard]

You might want to send your save games into se4@malfador.com but I can tell you I play the game just fine on ME and I also play it just fine on several different machines and laptops I use with no issues.

One thing you may want to check is that your drivers are DirectX compliant and up to date.

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Sarge is coming...

Richard Arnesen
Director of Covert Ops
Shrapnel Games
http://www.shrapnelgames.com

[Dracus]

I also play on winMe with no problems

[Alpha Kodiak]

I would bet that it's some type of driver issue, as Richard said. I am running on an HP laptop using ME.

I'm curious, are you saying that the game will play if the laptop is up and running for about half-an-hour beforehand? That sounds almost like some kind of hardware issue where a connection is flakey until the system heats up and something expands to make a better connection. Don't know, but it sure sounds strange.

[Atrocities]

Are you using a fresh install with the latest patch? Your not copying saved games from your previous computer?

Do this:

Insure you have enough HD space.
Defrage, and or Scan disk. Also check for viruses. Update all of your drivers for Direct X, and video card.

Uninstall the game completely.
Do A fresh install.

If the game still will not play, then go to your local guns shop, pay the guy 50 bucks to borrow a shot gun, and one round. Go out side and shoot your lap top. J/K. Call Dell support and see what they say.

One other thing too, if it is warezed . . . . . **** happens.


[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 15 November 2001).]

[LLB]

I think Jason2 may be referring to the "Range Check Error" problem that I and a couple of others have discussed in other threads. This problem does not appear to be due to out of date drivers or DirectX compliance, nor is it simply an OS incompatibility with ME, nor does it appear to be fixable with the uninstall/reinstall exercise. (I get this error on a Dell Inspiron 4000 under WinME, but not on a Dell Dimension 4100 desktop under WinME.)

The workaround appears to be to start the computer, load the game, let it crash, close the game, do something else (I haven't investigated whether the time spent doing something else is a factor), then restart the game -- at which point it appears to run.

Jason, I hope this helps. I certainly second your plea for a fix, because this appears to be a real bug and it's real annoying.

L