Crashes to the desktop

[BatNdmh]

I just bought Hearts of Iron. I loaded it and got and installed the most recent patch. I am using Windows XP as my operating system. I found the reference in the manual that it was good to turn off ‘Blinkplay.exe’ . Unfortunately when I tried this it was not running in any case. Now for my problem, I have the game on pause. It seems to crash when I try to share research, or click on the diplomacy button. It may just be a coincidence that it crashed when I clicked on these buttons, but it happened more then once. The game looks like a good game. To bad it is not turn based, so some friends of mine could play it via email. But that is neither here nor there!

Thank you in advance for your help in this matter!

Keep on gaming
John

P/S Yes it seems if I want to turn the game off all I have to do is hit the Diplomacy button! It shuts the game down really fast! LOL

 

[Castellon]

To turn off the Bink player, you need to rename your AVI folder to AVI_back.

There is also an XP update you should get that helps as well.

 

[BatNdmh]

Not Playable

Per Castellon
I tried this:
To turn off the Blink player, you need to rename your AVI folder to AVI_back.

There is also an XP update you should get that helps as well.



Also I tried turning off Blinkplay.exe per the instruction manual. Except when I bring up ‘Applications’ Blinkplay.exe is not running any where. Neither in ‘Processes’ or ‘Applications’.

Now granted clicking on the Diplomacy Screen Button shuts the game down to the desktop Right Now. It is Not want I want to do. I would like to play the game! Any suggestions anyone?

The game as it is, cannot be played. Unless I am doing something consistently wrong. I think the game is really nice, but I would like it to work!

KoG
John

 

[Castellon]

Please keep your posts in the thread you started, do not start new threads on the same topic.
I will merge them.
*Merged

 

[Castellon]

Bink player will not show up because renaming the AVI floder disables it.

Please ensure that you have the latest drivers for your video and audio cards, then post your complete system specs incuding the driver versions that you are using and the publisher and patch you are useing.

 

[unmerged(6777)]

Can you confirm that you renamed the avi folder to avi_old please. If so, the binkplayer will be disabled so it won't show in your processes list.

Other stuff:

- When did you last run Windows Update?
- Have you installed all relevent "recommended" patches as well as the critical ones?
- How much RAM do you have?
- How much free hard drive space do you have?
- Which version of HoI are you running? (Ubi/SF/etc.)
- Are you running DirectX 9.0 or 8.1? When did you last update it?
- What video card do you have? When did you last update the driver?
- What sound card do you have? When did you last update the driver?
- Have you tried adjusting the video acceleration settings )or turning video acceleration off)?
- Have you tried adjusting the sound acceleration settings (or turning hardware acceleration off)?


Edit: lol...simultaneous posting again Castellon. Great minds think alike.

 

[Castellon]

Bah!, I beat you by 3 minutes, you are too verbose!

 

[unmerged(6777)]

Originally posted by Castellon
Bah!, I beat you by 3 minutes, you are too verbose!

Yeah...but my formatting is prettier.

 

[BatNdmh]

Ye I renamed the one folder!
When did you last run Windows Update? It is current as of the last release by MSN
- Have you installed all relevent "recommended" patches as well as the critical ones? I download Everything

- How much RAM do you have? 384 MB

- How much free hard drive space do you have? 49.6 GB free

- Which version of HoI are you running? (Ubi/SF/etc.) Version ?

- Are you running DirectX 9.0 or 8.1? When did you last update it? Direct X 8.1

- What video card do you have? When did you last update the driver? Rage 128 Pro AGP 4X TMDS

- What sound card do you have? When did you last update the driver? Creative Audio PCI

- Have you tried adjusting the video acceleration settings )or turning video acceleration off)? Yes Turned it off

- Have you tried adjusting the sound acceleration settings (or turning hardware acceleration off)? Yes turned it off

My system: Pentium 3 Processor 797 MHz

 

[Castellon]

Please list your driver versions and the publisher of your game, UBI, Strategy First ... and what patch you have installed.

 

[BatNdmh]

Please list your driver versions?
There are a Whole Boat Load of Drivers, was not sure which ones you wanted?

Display Adaptor
Rage 128 Pro Agp 4xTMDS
Driver Provider: ATI Technology Inc
Driver Date : 7/2/2001
Driver Version: 6.13.10.5019
Digital Signature: Microsoft Windows XP Publisher

Sound Card
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Date : 7/1-2001
Driver version: 5.1.2535.0
Digital Signature: Microsoft Windows XP Publisher
File version: 5.1.2600.1106 (xpsp 1.020828-1920)




The publisher of your game, UBI, Strategy First? Strategy First / Paradox


What patch you have installed. HOI-Patch-1.03b-NA.exe

 

[Castellon]

I see that there is a more recent driver for your video card.
You may want to try that.