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Fusker posted 03-16-99 04:24 PM ET
This is interesting. I have a very similar set-up at home as in the office, get the game to work perfectly at home, but can't get it to launch at the office. My set-up at work uses NT (the biggest difference, '98 at home). I can go into the movies folder and they play just fine, but I get the black screen lock-up of death with the maxed out CPU thing whenever I try to run the game. I've tried all the listed NT tricks, any ideas? PC is a Micron PII 450,Starfighter AGP card, yamaha sound card, 3com ether-net card,and NT4.0 pack3. My home machine is a 350 with SB card, '98 and modem instead of ether-net and works perfectly, have the latest drivers for everything....I'm at a loss here, ideas?

Fusker posted 03-16-99 06:40 PM ET
Got it to work by removing the movies...they worked independently but not within the context of the game
LarsHanson posted 03-21-99 12:43 AM ET
Apply SP4 to your NT machine. Movies should play fine - only the audio stuttering will remain. That's a DirectX problem that Microsoft has to fix.
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Author	Topic: NT problem
Fusker	posted 03-16-99 04:24 PM ET This is interesting. I have a very similar set-up at home as in the office, get the game to work perfectly at home, but can't get it to launch at the office. My set-up at work uses NT (the biggest difference, '98 at home). I can go into the movies folder and they play just fine, but I get the black screen lock-up of death with the maxed out CPU thing whenever I try to run the game. I've tried all the listed NT tricks, any ideas? PC is a Micron PII 450,Starfighter AGP card, yamaha sound card, 3com ether-net card,and NT4.0 pack3. My home machine is a 350 with SB card, '98 and modem instead of ether-net and works perfectly, have the latest drivers for everything....I'm at a loss here, ideas?
Fusker	posted 03-16-99 06:40 PM ET Got it to work by removing the movies...they worked independently but not within the context of the game
LarsHanson	posted 03-21-99 12:43 AM ET Apply SP4 to your NT machine. Movies should play fine - only the audio stuttering will remain. That's a DirectX problem that Microsoft has to fix.