Bug: Freeze problems.

[Tac9]

Update: I have uninstalled every media/video player I had on my PC that I know of and I still get the ActiveMovie Window popup. It seems to have relevance to the game because it has a picture of a tank unit in the tool bar representing the window that pops up. I am still running the 3.0 update because of the problem that occurs past 3.0

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Tac9

Update: I have uninstalled every media/video player I had on my PC that I know of and I still get the ActiveMovie Window popup. It seems to have relevance to the game because it has a picture of a tank unit in the tool bar representing the window that pops up. I am still running the 3.0 update because of the problem that occurs past 3.0

Never seen this before, ever - we don't use ActiveMovie.

A quick Google on "ActiveMovie window" brings up many hits about it popping up, and suggestions on how to kill it e.g. http://www.theeldergeek.com/forum/in...showtopic=9047

DirectPlay is used for sounds - have you tried turning sounds off?.
- Set the interface mouse click to off in the game options programme Misc tab
- Set both sound buttons (battle FX and sound FX) to off in the preferences screen of the actual game itself.

DirectPlay is used to show the splash screen at startup
- Set Show Introduction to no in the game options program main tab.

See if that helps your problem.

Cheers
Andy

[Tac9]

The things you had me try worked! Thank you. Two questions:

1. Does this mean in order for the game to work correctly I must play without sound?

2. Should I download the rest of the updates and try the game or will this fix not have anything to do with updates 3.5 and beyond?

Again thanks for everyones time.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Tac9

The things you had me try worked! Thank you. Two questions:

1. Does this mean in order for the game to work correctly I must play without sound?

2. Should I download the rest of the updates and try the game or will this fix not have anything to do with updates 3.5 and beyond?

Again thanks for everyones time.

1) If this allows the game to play properly then yes.

Or at least until you manage to fix whatever your media player or driver (sound or video) problem is.

2) of course

Andy

[Imp]

When you say you uninstalled all players that did include windows media player. Its easy enough to uninstall. Once you find the problem putting a clean install back should not cause it to reoccur.
Have you tried checking what the files are associated with, click on a sound file & the intro video if its a seperate file & windows should select your media player if still have one. Or can right click & select properties to find program associated with or at least I am set up that way. Have a few aftermarket if that does not work stick file associations in windows help.
Still sounds suspicious to me if movie pops up randomly not at start something is controlling that, try running a decent process monitor & see what changes between version 3 & 3.5. There is a free one I think surprisingly called Process monitor that can be set to record a log has filters etc. Compare find what extra things running & google it.
Also as Andy mentioned I assume you have checked sound video drivers are up to date this often solves problems.
Edit
Also forget whats called but checked your version of directX or whatever its called. If you have installed an old game bad programing means it may have installed an old version.