2 Technical Questions

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by diamondspider:

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Originally posted by Coffeedragon:

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Originally posted by ceremony:

On the sound issue, I believe aldin meant to turn the sound off using a command-line switch when you start the program. I don't know what that switch is offhand but it should be in the game docs, or maybe posted on this forum.

EDIT: I just found it on the Dominions X site: the switch is --nosound

Where do I type that in?

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Right click on shortcut for Dom2 demo and choose properties.

Click on Shortcut tab.

Type --nosound at the end of the field called Target after this: "C:\Program Files\dominions2demo\dom2demo.exe".

Click OK.

Then double-click on the shortcut.

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We´ll try that; thanks.

[Coffeedragon]

"--nosound" didn´t work. Any other suggestions?

PC in question is an AMD Athlon, Windows 98, Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro, 32MB.

[PDF]

CoffeeDragon,
What type of crash do you have ? Exit to desktop ? BSOD ? Comp frozen ?
And when does it happen ? Playing on strat map ? Combat replay ?
Did you try unistall/clen HD/reinstall ?
What graphix drivers and DX Version do you use ?

[Arralen]

Try the following:

1) Use "dom2.exe -smfwx --res 800 600"
Even if it doesn't work, leave it this way.

2) Make shure to use a OpenGL-capable driver.
Check the readme/website docs for details. Not every ATI driver can run OpenGL apps, and even those that are supposed to aren't necessarily very good at it.
I run DOM2 on the the machine I write this on, and it's using a Rage XL chip. It does run, but performace is very poor, despite C-600 and 384 MB.

3) Run DxDiag, post the info here.

A.

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by PDF:
Exit to desktop ? BSOD ? Comp frozen ?
And when does it happen ? Playing on strat map ? Combat replay ?

On my friend´s system I mentioned, CtD immediately when trying to run the game.

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by Arralen:

2) Make sure to use a OpenGL-capable driver.

Should I have an idea or something, what OpenGL is?

And my friend is much less computer-literate than I, so that bodes ill for my multi-playing with him.

[ceremony]

OpenGL is a multi-platform standard for graphics, whereas DirectX limited to Windows and is proprietary to Microsoft. You can learn more about it here:

http://www.opengl.org/about/overview.html

but that's not really that important. The important thing is that since Dominions 2 uses OpenGL, you need a set of drivers for your video card that have good OpenGL support. It's possible that the issue with your friend's machine is that the drivers he is using for his Rage Fury are old, or that the chip itself may not have good OpenGL performance.

Make sure he goes to

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

and downloads the latest Win98 drivers available for the card.

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by ceremony:
OpenGL is a multi-platform standard for graphics, whereas DirectX limited to Windows and is proprietary to Microsoft. You can learn more about it here:

http://www.opengl.org/about/overview.html

but that's not really that important. The important thing is that since Dominions 2 uses OpenGL, you need a set of drivers for your video card that have good OpenGL support. It's possible that the issue with your friend's machine is that the drivers he is using for his Rage Fury are old, or that the chip itself may not have good OpenGL performance.

Make sure he goes to

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

and downloads the latest Win98 drivers available for the card.

Sounds like very good advice. Will pass it on.

Btw, the semi-good news are that the game does run on the machine of his pet dragon, err, gf. We will see if he can convince her to temporarily lend him her pc.