Critical Error Message

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Hello, Gang:

Good evening from Canada! I hope this finds you and yours well.

I'm writing about a a message I keep getting when I'm either going into the game or it sends me back to my desktop. It says: 'CRITICAL ERROR--' then something about my video or my FMVL. Please, could somebody tell me what it is and how do I fix it? Do I need something extra on Gus, my computer, to run this game?


Braveheart58.

 

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Until you tell us the specs of your machine, ram, video and sound cards, etc we wouldnt really have a clue.
I might have helped you a few months back but my wife threw the crystal ball at the cat and it smashed.
The exact error message might help too......

 

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Gus' Specs

Dear Uglyduck:


Good afternoon from Canada! I hope this finds you and yours well. As for Gus's specs, they go for almost 4 pages, but I'll give you what you want. It goes as follows: He's got 128 RAM, SB AudioPCI 64V Legacy Device, Standard Floppy Disk Controller, Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64V, MDP7800U Modem, Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller, Intel Pentium (r)II Processor to AGP controller, Windows 98,640 Total Conventional Memory,Standard Floppy Disk Controller, Direct Memory acess controller, 130340 Extended Memory. His C Drive has 1027 cylinders and 255 heads--total MB: 8233248. Free Space: 2090388.

That's just part of him. If you want anymore, let me know. My address is jhamilton@isp.on.ca.

Braveheart58.

 

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the message I received was :Fatal error: could not initialize Video from FmV

BTW my comp specs are: 128mb Ram, 40gig hard drive, 700mgz AMD Athlon processor, and other crap like that. my computer is a compaq presario 7970

 

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Better late than never.

"Fatal error: could not initialize Video from FmV"

This means that your PC wasn't able to switch to 640 * 480 16 bit graphics mode.


Patric