Complete crash when starting the game!

[Castellon]

First kudos to you for reading the stickies and following the correct procedures!

Follow the advice jdrou has outlined above. It should clear up your problem, the AVI folder rename is the key one to try first.

Let us know.

 

[Castellon]

Try installing 1.05C.
Run the directX diagnostic program.
Tell me at what exact point it crashes. Do you see the intro videos? the main screen ...

 

[Castellon]

Who is the publisher of your version? thier logo should be on the cd.

 

[Castellon]

Re: HoI 1.05c

Originally posted by Rittersmann
And when I try to run the HoI.exe from the 1.05c patch....a system error occurs that tells me "Critical error! Excel file not found!"

the 1.05c patch must be extracted into the HOI folder, and all files should be overwritten, and directory structure maintained.
In other words there should be no seperate exe file for you to run from the 1.05c patch.

 

[Castellon]

Did you set your color depth to 16bit?

 

[Castellon]

Okay I need some info from you.
Graphics card make and model and driver version.
Game publisher and patch level.
DirectX version.