Game Crashes and flashing screens

[21sec]

I just got the CD version, and am having a problem. When I get to the main menu screen I can try and select anything and when I click on say editor nothing happens. I've waited a couple of minutes and still nothing happens. When I do the task master it has [not responding] next to WinSPMBT. This has happened in both windowed and full screen. Occasionally this does not happen, but 9 out of 10 times it does. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW I'm running Windows 98, PIII 550mHz

[Mobhack]

21sec said:
I just got the CD version, and am having a problem. When I get to the main menu screen I can try and select anything and when I click on say editor nothing happens. I've waited a couple of minutes and still nothing happens. When I do the task master it has [not responding] next to WinSPMBT. This has happened in both windowed and full screen. Occasionally this does not happen, but 9 out of 10 times it does. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW I'm running Windows 98, PIII 550mHz

I'll assume the download version game ran fine, sound and all?

[If you did not try out the download game first - then try running with all sound off, including the interface click (page 2 of game options). I'll assume you have DirectX installed, but even so - start->run and entering dxdiag as the program to run there to test your DirectX settings may help]

Then I would try deinstalling, then reinstalling the CD version.

If this still keeps happening then
1) Deinstall, and then run the windows scandisk utily to defragment the drive, it will also find any lost clusters. Reinstall. Retry.

2) Same again - but this time try a surface check on the drive for any bad disk clusters. That test can take overnight to run, and on modern drives it is rare to find bad clusters.

3)If that has not sorted the problem, I would suspect a bad CD - return to shrapnel for a replacement. [ You can skip straight to this test by trying the installlation on a different machine - a friend's say - and if it works there, your box is the problem, if it fails, then it is likely a bad CD ]


Cheers
Andy

[21sec]

The download version had the same problem, but not as frequently. I turned off mouse click and was able to load a scenerio, but it froze almost immediately. I have since turned the sound fx off, and have not had any problems. Time to break down and get a new system though

[Nerfix]

The game crashes so much it's practicaly unplayable...

It happens both on windowed and fullscreen mode and quite often in deployment mode, though I have seen the game irritatingly often crash mid-game.

[DRG]

Nerfix said:
The game crashes so much it's practicaly unplayable...

It happens both on windowed and fullscreen mode and quite often in deployment mode, though I have seen the game irritatingly often crash mid-game.

Read through all the posts in this thread and the "XP sound problems thread" and you should find the solution to your problem. The game is stable on 99% of the systems. You don't tell us what your OS is or your graphics card or if you are running it DirectX or GDI mode or even if you've tried any changes so we cannot help you beyond suggesting you read these threads to discover the solution. The first step would be press Start then Run then type DXDiag and see if there is a problem with Dx on your machine. Then check to see that you are using the most up to date driver for your graphics card. Those two suggestions have helped a lot of people get the game running

Don

[Grey_Wolf]

I had the game crash on my computer at home, but I swapped out the MP3's for WAV's and it's been rock solid ever since.

On another note, loaded the game onto my laptop and never had the game so much as flicker.

Cheers,
Wes