Game crashes when I start single player

[Mantis747]

I recently purchased Hearts of Iron Anthology. I installed the first Hearts of Iron and everything worked fine there. I then went on to install Hearts of Iron II. The tutorial works fine, however, when I click "Single Player" on the main menu the screen goes black and then a minute later a message pops up which says "Hearts of Iron II has encountered a problem and needs to close".

Here's my specs:

Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3
1024MB RAM
226 GB free space on my HDD
DirectX 9.0c
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (2 CPUs)

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[sbr]

Welcome to the fourms.

Try renaming the avi folder. This contain the opening movie and the Bink Player used to play it. It causes problems with a lot of systems and should be the first step you take after installing any P'dox game.

Defult is

C:\ ...\Paradox Interactive\HOI2

You can rename it to anything you want, I like avi.old, but whatever. You could delete it but renaming it is much less permanent.

 

[Mantis747]

Doesn't work. I still get the same problem.

 

[blue emu]

Here's my specs:

Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3
1024MB RAM
226 GB free space on my HDD
DirectX 9.0c
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz (2 CPUs)

What GFX card are you using? Sound card? How old are your Sound and Video drivers? Sound drivers especially can cause odd black-screen crashes.

 

[Mantis747]

I don't know. How would I find this out?

Sorry, I'm not that tech savvy. o

 

[blue emu]

Start Menu => My Computer => Control Panel => System => Device Manager

Then double-click on the Video Controller and Sound Device lines to check which devices you have, and the driver dates can be checked on the next page of the same pop-up info box.

 

[coreymas]

DXDiag from the start/run menu is more detailed....

Corey