Some technical Problems With Demo

[Gabriel]

Having troubles, to say the least, with the demo. I've downloaded the latest demo from this site and it locks up within 10 seconds of starting it. I have the latest DirectX (which could be the problem) and the latest drivers for my GeForce 256 and my Sound BLaster Live Value edition. Does anyone have any tips? I would love to have a game like this, but I won't spend my money on it unless I can play around with the demo first.

[Richard]

How long did you wait before trying to kill it?

The demo has an interesting way of launching so you need to wait about 20-30 seconds for the splash screen to scroll.

Otherwise I will leave this to Joe to troubleshoot.

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Sarge is coming...

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

[Gabriel]

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Originally posted by Richard:
How long did you wait before trying to kill it?

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It was definately locked up...The music stopped on one note that never turned off, the mouse stopped moving, the keyboard locked up (CTRL+ALT+DEL wouldn't even work) and the only thing I could do was push the reset button. This occured when I watched the splash screen occur, and also when I pressed the space bar to bypass it.

[Joe]

Gabriel,

In the "Game Content" thread you mentioned you played the demo and like it a lot. Does this mean your lockup problem is solved? If so, what was the fix?

[Gabriel]

I think there is something wrong with my sound card. I turned off the music and it works fine. I had the same problem with Runesword also. It's strange that these 2 games caused problems, but not any of the major commercial games like Baldurs Gate 2, Deus Ex, etc. But, I have had suspicians about the sound card for a little bit anyway. I guess it is off to buy a X-Gamer 5.1 today.

[Gabriel]

Found out that it wasn't the sound card, but my scanner software that was the problem. For some reason, it would conflict with my sound card and make it crash. At least I have fixed it.

There are a couple of issues that I have that I wonder if anyone else has had.

1) Mainly on the right side of the screen, if I right-click on a plane and the menu comes up that goes outside the radar circle, when a selection is chosen, or the menu disappears, the part of the menu that was outside the circle stays visable on the screen. Even minimizing the screen (through the boss key or windows) doesn't make it go away. I've even had it that(I forgot the circumstances)the screen minimized, and when I returned to the game, the screen, except for the radar circle, was my windows background wallpaper.

2) I've played a few times that I get a warning sound and a red message saying that there was a near miss, but I couldn't find where it happened. It didn't seem that any planes were close to each other, no red circles happened around planes, nor did any plane listed on the right schedule list appear in red. Is this a bug anyone else has had happen?

[tigertunes]

i had similar problems , i gave up