Re: Need Advice on Game Startup
I strongly agree with Nox's comments re upgrading.
I am going to gues that your problem is driver related, possibly video (though if you get to the main screen and can select scenarios etc, probably not).
The likely culprit is your sound card in windows XP, especially if you did not install the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website.
(This is exactly the same advice given in the sticky thread on game crashes in XP above.)
1) On the game options programme, go to misc tab and turn mouse interface click to off.
2) Start the main game programme from the Game Options launch programme, and go into Preferences. Here, turn both Sound FX and Battle FX options to OFF.
3) Exit the game (to enure the preferences are writen to the INI file in case of crash - you do not want to have to re-do) and then restart the game again.
If your crash problems have now gone away then the poblem is related to your sound card. Various options are discussed in the sticky thread, e.g. converting your sound files to WAV instead of MP3 if your card cannot handle multiple MP3 streams, and the first check is to go to your sound card manufacturer's support web site and try downloading latest XP compatible driver set (if such a beast exists).
Cheers
Andy
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