Crash upon execution.

[Acularius]

Nothing bad, but for some reason I can get the game to work with the Epigoni mod to work with 2.32, however getting it to run vanilla or another mod seems to be beyond the ability of my laptop to run.

I can install it, patch it but it crashes upon loading up. (Doesn't even get to the startup screen, just instant black screen upon execution and crash.)

I have 3 separate installations of the game.

 

[AndrewT]

As a start update your video driver http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-260.99-whql-driver.html

If that doesn't help let's see your settings.txt and system.log

 

[Acularius]

Updated the driver.

I also did a clean install and updated to 2.32 for it.
The Epigoni mod installed one still works. The fresh install does not.

Epigoni has a settings and system log, but the fresh install only has the system log to work with.
Also, it is still a crash upon execution. (For the fresh install)
I put them into separate .rar files, for comparison between the two.

EDIT: Correction, now the one with Epigoni mod installed crashes upon clicking 'Single Player'.

 

[AndrewT]

The fresh install should have a settings.txt ... ? But I can see errors in its system.log that aren't in the Epigoni one:

Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/normal.cur
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/busy.ani
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/cant_move.cur
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/dragselect.ani
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/selected.cur
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/no_move.ani
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/friendly_move.ani
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/attack_move.ani
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/embark.cur
Kernel Release[directinput.cpp:913]: Error loading cursor: gfx/cursors/move_to_enemy_province.cur

So it seems you still have a bad installation in some way. Is yours a boxed edition, or downloaded from where?

 

[Acularius]

Downloaded from Gemersgate, I'm suspecting to redownloading the installation files.

I'll keep you posted on whether or not that does the trick.