Another wierd crash

I have a KT600 chipset motherboard, and EOC works fine. Movies and everything.

-- Steve
Stephen Robertson
I-War series co-designer.

@Stephen Robertson : Thanks for the Info. I installed my NForce2 Board again. and guess what..it wasnt the board after all...
i still have the same problems. I mostly freezes before or at the beginning of a movie.
Could it be that one of my codecs interfers? I know that i had trouble playing Worms Armageddon because of Nimo Codec.
Now im using Tsunami 3.9.9. Very very rarely i am able to enter the game. Maybe once every 100 times. but then the texture flickering is bad...maybe i should turn off anisotopic filtering.
i would really love to play the game again. i never finished it and my last savegame is from november 2003.

The game uses Bink from Rad Game Tools for its movie playback, so it's unlikely that codecs would cause that particular problem, as Bink isn't 'codec' as such - it's a completely separate movie playback system.

-- Steve
Stephen Robertson
I-War series co-designer.

Well ... i thought of SATA and its drivers ... maybe that could be a problem...or maybe one of Microsofts Patches...
im pretty much on the end of my Latin...last time i played it i had a KT400 installed...and rest of the hardware is still the same.
here my specs.

Athlon XP 3200+
512MB Geil
Geforce FX 5800 Ultra (56.72 Drivers)
Hercules Game Theater 7.1 (6.09 Drivers)
Chaintech 7NJS Ultra
Saitek X36 USB Combo
240 GB HDD all up.
Windows XP RUU + SP1

Thats basically most of my hardware...exept Monitor and external stuff.

But i didnt have any trouble before...and still have no trouble with any other game

My experience with XP is that it often ignores a motherboard change and just keeps on using (or tries to use) the old vga drivers.

I run a nf2 board (A7n8x without SATA) and have no problems at all with EOC.

imo, If your flux.ini doesn't show a driver, flux isn't using/finding a driver and thus can't display the game.

Take a look at your flux.log file where it does the 3d driver stuff.
If you want, you could post that first part of your flux.log.





Iwar2 Multiplayer Fan Site

Here we go...it seems like it found the driver.
But the weird phenomenon is that whenever i try to open the Iwar installation folder or the iwar cd in explorer, it takes like
10 sec to come up...no other folder behaves like that.


User: "Aquasesh" on "AQUASESH-SERVER"
Operating system: Windows 2000Service Pack 1version 5.1

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FLUX: [unknown] Approximate CPU frequency: 2338MHz

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LOADER: [unknown] Entering WinMain
FLUX: [unknown] Trying to create application of class "iwar2.icGame"
FLUX: [unknown] Application created successfully
FLUX: [unknown] Starting Flux services...
FLUX: [unknown] Starting resource manager...
FLUX: [unknown] Starting devices...
DXINPUT: [unknown] **** Initialising fcInputDeviceDI...
DXINPUT: [unknown] Creating DirectInput...
DXINPUT: [unknown] Looking for keyboard...
DXINPUT: [unknown] Looking for mouse...
DXINPUT: [unknown] Looking for joysticks...
DXINPUT: [unknown] Setting cooperative level
DXINPUT: [unknown] Initialising force-feedback support...
DXINPUT: [unknown] WARNING: Forcefeedback support unavailable
DXINPUT: [unknown] **** Device initialised OK
FLUX: [unknown] Starting input mapper...
FLUX: [unknown] Input mapper started successfully
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] ******** Binding fcGraphicsDeviceD3D to window...
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Looking for compatible display drivers...
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Found display driver "Primary Display Driver"
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Driver is really "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800"
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Total video memory: 118.797MB
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Looking for Direct3D devices for driver...
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Found Direct3D device "RGB Emulation"
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Device is neither the basic HAL nor the T&L HAL - skipping
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] (Device type: RGB)
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Found Direct3D device "Direct3D HAL"
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Preferred device not found - still looking
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Found Direct3D device "Direct3D T&L HAL"
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Found preferred device: T&L HAL
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Looking for depth buffer formats for driver...
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Found 16 bit depth buffer format
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Format is suitable - ending search
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Looking for display modes for driver...
DX7GRAPH: [unknown] Found RGB display mode: 320x200 8 colour bits
DX7GRAPH: BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH....