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I have not played EU2 in a long while. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it so I could start fresh and download the new beta patches. I have a Dell Pent4 2.4 with 1gig of ram, my sound card is the one that came with the Dell and used to work fine for EU2. I do have a new video card that I have never run EU2 on before. Its a Radeon 9200.

The game loads fine and I can get the screen where I pick options I want and pick the grand camp or age of discovery and so on. When I finish and click to start the game the screen goes black for a moment then I get an error msg and CTD.

I have tried a fresh install of EU2 no patch and one with 1.8. I also am up to date with all microsoft windows XP patches.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
It has to be something with the 1.08 patch. I uninstalled again and tried just the strait from the box CD version and it worked. Upgraded to 1.08 and error again. Upgraded to 1.08b and error still :(
 
Okay let's try some standard things.
1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.
4) Update your Windows, update your Video card drivers and audio card drivers. Then repeat steps 1-3.
 
Castellon said:
Okay let's try some standard things.
1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.
4) Update your Windows, update your Video card drivers and audio card drivers. Then repeat steps 1-3.
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Did all of the above and it worked!! Thank you!!

I was running 32bit color, I bet that was it.
 
For anyone else reading this thread: I just took the very first suggestion, renaming the avi folder to avi_back and that fixed my problem all by itself. It seemed to be exactly like the original poster's problem. For me: Fresh EU2 from CD, then 1.08, then the rename, and all is well. Thanks!
 
That's why it is in the first spot! ;)
 
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