EUII and Windows XP

[unmerged(18239)]

Hi,

I bought a new computer and off course, the first thing I did was installing EUII. (Win xp-home)

I loaded the game, the music started to play, I got the starting screen, selected single player and picked a scenario then I picked a shield for a country and pressed start.

And the game CTD's without an error message or anything.

What's wrong????

 

[AndrewT]

Channelling Castellon:

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.

 

[unmerged(18239)]

I will try this.

Hope to be running EUII again tomorrow.

p.s. It did run with win 98....

 

[Swuul]

Microsoft Messenger really is an EU2 killer in WindowsXP. Upgrade WindowsXP Messenger to 4.7 and then uninstall it, that's the way to get rid of it (if you try to uninstall an earlier version it just bumps on again for some reason).

Btw, how much memory do you have? If you have less than 512 in Windows XP you'll probably have a tough time playing any games...

 

[unmerged(18239)]

Microsoft Messenger really is an EU2 killer in WindowsXP. Upgrade WindowsXP Messenger to 4.7 and then uninstall it, that's the way to get rid of it (if you try to uninstall an earlier version it just bumps on again for some reason).

Btw, how much memory do you have? If you have less than 512 in Windows XP you'll probably have a tough time playing any games...

I will try te messenger thing.
{but how do I use MSN then?}

At the moment I have 256 MB memory. But on my old compu I had only 32 and EuII worked.

 

[AndrewT]

I will try te messenger thing.
{but how do I use MSN then?}

You don't

256mb is marginal to run XP on its own, let alone EU2 as well. I recommend at least 384mb preferably 512mb.

 

[jpd]

Well, as a stopgap measure you could try to switch to the old style Win2K interface in WinXP (I prefer that myself. It looks better ). That disables most of the fancy graphics (which are really killing you, RAM wise) and lets WinXP behave as a regular Win2K machine. And with Win2K you can run EU2 in 256 MB RAM without too much trouble.

You might also try to reduce the AGP aperture size to 16 or 32 MB (if it's currently larger than that). Check in your BIOS setup for the current setting, and alter it if needbe. Reducing the aperture frees up more RAM for everything else.

Jan Peter

 

[unmerged(18239)]

You don't

256mb is marginal to run XP on its own, let alone EU2 as well. I recommend at least 384mb preferably 512mb.

I will get the update to 512....

for now i followed your instructions as above and eu works very good.

it was the 16 bit colors.....

Thanks for the help and the advice.

 

[Castellon]

Sorry I could not help earlier I was on vacation, but I see my many minions have solved the problem without me, time to go back on vacation I think except I am already sunburned.

Anyway glad you got the problem sorted out.

 

[unmerged(5161)]

Scandinavians and their pale skin...........

 

[unmerged(18239)]

Sorry I could not help earlier I was on vacation, but I see my many minions have solved the problem without me, time to go back on vacation I think except I am already sunburned.

Anyway glad you got the problem sorted out.

Thanks anyway.
When I bought my new computer nothing worked, now all works. EUII - X-com.....

 

[Castellon]

Great!

 

[unmerged(31000)]

Yeah I have just bought a new notebook and first game I installed was EUII obviously. And it just would not work properly. Read this thread and a few others and changed the avi folder and to 16 bit, brilliant, now it works. Thanks Castellon and others for the good work.

 

[Castellon]

Glad it worked out for you.