Game Crashes and flashing screens

[DRG]

First try playing with all the sound controls in the game preferences set to OFF

Then try pressing START and RUN and entering DXDIAG and check that your Direct X is working correctly.

Then read through the sound threads in this forum . There are a couple that are just dedicated to sound.

The game **will** work in full screen mode, lot's of people run it that way, It just won't run on your machine without some adjustments. First we have to run through the basics. The fact you are getting an audio error message leads me to think it's sound related and if you're game runs fine with sound off we can procedd from there

Don

[desh44]

I posted this as a separate thread but this might link in to this also

I was using the game in windows mode today for the first time and when I went to shut down the game the x in the upper corner of the main screen was greyed out. I closed using the menu bar(right click mouse..get popup menu and close.) the next time I tried to play the game I got to the main screen but when i hit the play button i went back to desktop and nothing further happened. When i rebooted it worked fine. I tried using windows mode again to see if it was a one time thing and the same thing happened. I thought you might like to know of this possible bug.

Tom D
I tried this on 3 separate computers with the same result

[Mobhack]

desh44 said:
I posted this as a separate thread but this might link in to this also

I was using the game in windows mode today for the first time and when I went to shut down the game the x in the upper corner of the main screen was greyed out. I closed using the menu bar(right click mouse..get popup menu and close.) the next time I tried to play the game I got to the main screen but when i hit the play button i went back to desktop and nothing further happened. When i rebooted it worked fine. I tried using windows mode again to see if it was a one time thing and the same thing happened. I thought you might like to know of this possible bug.

Tom D
I tried this on 3 separate computers with the same result

Same answer, the EXIT button on the main game screen exits the game, whatever windows mode you are in.

(Please don't ask the same question multiple times and in different threads as that can cause confusion.)

Cheers
Andy

[desh44]

Thanks Andy for the quick reply. Sorry about the multiple posts....was a bit tired at the time

[JohnHale]

Thanks to the sound advice contained in the V2 patch, I am now able to run WIN:SPMBT with sound on - without the game freezing after 5 or 6 moves. Hurrah!

Still get the flashes back to desktop when starting-up, but that's no big deal.

Thank you, Mr Gailey and the Team!