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csspostal posted 05-24-99 07:48 PM ET
Everytime I build finish building a secret project and the movie starts to play my computer locks up. The screen goes black no error message all I see is the mouse pointer.
I was about to return it when I decided to see if you could shut the movies off. Well I shut them off and it's working fine now, and have gotten a total of 4 hours sleep this past weekend, great game.
Just posted incase someone else has the same problem I did.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 05-25-99 10:19 AM ET
Chances are it's either a video or sound card driver problem. Things to try: Download and install dx 6.1 from www.microsoft.com/directx. If that doesn't do it, run DXdiag.exe and see if either card has uncertified drivers. Renaming the sound.dll to sound.dl_ will disable the sound, and if the problem vanishes, we know which card is the problem. Something else to try is setting your hardware acceleration to 0. Right-click on the my computer icon, select properties, then performance, then graphics. Set the slider to 0.
jkm
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Author	Topic: Secret Project Bug
csspostal	posted 05-24-99 07:48 PM ET Everytime I build finish building a secret project and the movie starts to play my computer locks up. The screen goes black no error message all I see is the mouse pointer. I was about to return it when I decided to see if you could shut the movies off. Well I shut them off and it's working fine now, and have gotten a total of 4 hours sleep this past weekend, great game. Just posted incase someone else has the same problem I did.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 05-25-99 10:19 AM ET Chances are it's either a video or sound card driver problem. Things to try: Download and install dx 6.1 from www.microsoft.com/directx. If that doesn't do it, run DXdiag.exe and see if either card has uncertified drivers. Renaming the sound.dll to sound.dl_ will disable the sound, and if the problem vanishes, we know which card is the problem. Something else to try is setting your hardware acceleration to 0. Right-click on the my computer icon, select properties, then performance, then graphics. Set the slider to 0. jkm firaxis games