2 Technical Questions

[Coffeedragon]

-A friend of mine just got the game, and it always crashes after a few seconds. Any ideas what the reason could be?

-Less important: Is there a hotkey for making screenshots? (Printscreen doesn´t work well; resulting bitmaps are ugly.)

[aldin]

Originally posted by Coffeedragon:
-A friend of mine just got the game, and it always crashes after a few seconds. Any ideas what the reason could be?

Try running it without sound.

~Aldin

[ceremony]

Originally posted by Coffeedragon:
-Less important: Is there a hotkey for making screenshots? (Printscreen doesn´t work well; resulting bitmaps are ugly.)

No dedicated screenshot key, but the bitmap you generate with Print Screen should be identical to the screen image, and uncompressed (meaning all the data is there - it's a bitmap after all), so you can re-save it in any format you like. Perhaps the program you are using to view the bitmap is zooming it out?

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by aldin:
Try running it without sound.

~Aldin

If I understand him correctly, he doesn´t get that far. The game starts to load, but then decides otherwise. Any known problems?

[Coffeedragon]

Originally posted by ceremony:
Perhaps the program you are using to view the bitmap is zooming it out?

I opened the bitmap with paint- size was right, but the coulours were wrong.

[Lord_Devi]

Well whenever that happens to me, one of the first things I do myself is try again with my audio hardware mixing turned all the way down. "Start->Run->"dxdiag""

Of course this doesn't work all the time But it works frequently enough for me that it's worth trying.