I need some help...
Every time I launch the game it crashes during the movie, just as the game proper is about to start. I have never actually been able to play the game as a result. I have a Radeon R270 graphics card which is more than sufficient, and otherwise match all the hardware requirements. I can play Men of War, Red Tide and MOW2 without a hitch, so I'm surprised as this is a paid for mod based on this engine.
I've tried running the game at default settings and at minimum settings, even though it shouldn't make any difference. I've also contacted their "support" twice and am still awaiting a reply. Needless to say I am not holding my breath... :-\
Anyway, it seems clear from the Youtube videos and activity on the Steam discussions that people can play the game, so please, please, please give me some advice as I have been looking forward to playing this for some time now.
I thought that support for this game had ended...
I have the game, but having never played it all I can ask is whether the opening cinematic can be disabled? -- and if so does it still crash upon load?
Maybe also checking the executable file to see if compatibility has been set back to, I dunno, Win 8.1 or something stable that the engine would be more familiar with. (Vista???)
Also, before checking the other things, I'd try a Steam verify. My Dawn of War: Soulstorm gets corrupted dll files or something very easily, and needs reverification every once in a while. (I've been playing mp with W8taminute recently; this affects him, too, I've noticed.)
The game plays fine for me. I have Win 10. I know that doesn't help...except to confirm that the game does work.
Well thanks for the advice so far. It's a comfort that the game works on other machines in the sense that my problem is more likely the way my PC is set up as I really doubt that my PC isn't capable of running the game. I did do a verify, but Jason's idea about disabling the cinematic (if I can - I have no idea how I'd do this though), and checking the compatibility on the executable is worth a go.
If anyone has any other ideas let me know. At this point in time nothing (well almost - I'm not formatting my drives!) is too crazy to consider. ;)
No advise to add, but my son was learning about WWI so I got this game on steam. He fell in love with it and racked up a hundred hours in my steam account.
In some games you disable the cinematic by find the video file and moving it out of the folder. File is usually in an appropriately named folder.
Have you tried launching the game directly from Steam (in your Steam Library press the 'Play' button)? With some games that actually works.
Quote from: bobarossa on March 05, 2019, 06:33:20 PM
In some games you disable the cinematic by find the video file and moving it out of the folder. File is usually in an appropriately named folder.
I had a look, but nothing stands out. To be honest they seem embedded in the *.pak campaign files and I've no idea whether it's even possible to extract them. I am just hoping that one of the developers will see the discussion thread and take pity on me... :-"
Quote from: bbmike on March 05, 2019, 07:09:18 PM
Have you tried launching the game directly from Steam (in your Steam Library press the 'Play' button)? With some games that actually works.
That's how I normally launch games in my Steam library. That said I've also tried it direct from the folder using Explorer.
Disable your anti-virus.
Thanks GeneralHawk, I'll give it a try. :)
I tried it, but it still CTD's during the video just before the game itself is about to start. Thanks for the idea though. :)
Any more ideas are worth trying though as I'd like to play this.
I'm just wondering... I'm using Win7, would that be a problem? Surely not, but I don't know.
I haven't played it in a couple years but it's in my Steam library. I'm using Win7 Pro 64-bit and it installed and ran fine. Hope you get it figured out.
Just as an aside, is this game finished or is it still in early access?
LOL! :-" After all my frustration it turns out that my graphics card drivers were two years out of date. :-[ I was trying to figure out what on earth the problem was as my rig should be more than able to handle things. As soon as I updated the drivers it worked straight away. Not all that odd when you stop and think about it, but at the time I just thought it was something less obvious!!! Anyway, I thought I'd share the solution just in case someone else runs up against the problem.
@Gus... AFAIK it is out of early access.
Post impressions! Especially if it's complete now.