German version fails upon starting scenarios

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*foam*
*rant*
damn it, I can't get my Victoria version to work. I bought the German edition from Koch media (via Amazon), installed the English language version, applied the 1.03 patch - all fine so far, music plays, front screen looks nice - and then it ALWAYS crashes when I select a country and hit "Start". I tried Sweden, Prussia and Belgium, in the 1836 and 1861 scenarios. Since it takes about three fucking minutes for the game to load just the front screen, I'm a little out of patience and I'm not going to try every god-damned country in every god-damned scenario.

What the hell is wrong with the game???
I am playing (well, trying) on a Windows XP machine, Athlon 1600, 256MB RAM, 1024x768, GForce 4 card

 

[Derek Pullem]

*foam*
*rant*
damn it, I can't get my Victoria version to work. I bought the German edition from Koch media (via Amazon), installed the English language version, applied the 1.03 patch - all fine so far, music plays, front screen looks nice - and then it ALWAYS crashes when I select a country and hit "Start". I tried Sweden, Prussia and Belgium, in the 1836 and 1861 scenarios. Since it takes about three fucking minutes for the game to load just the front screen, I'm a little out of patience and I'm not going to try every god-damned country in every god-damned scenario.

What the hell is wrong with the game???
I am playing (well, trying) on a Windows XP machine, Athlon 1600, 256MB RAM, 1024x768, GForce 4 card

Go through this list

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114643

Although the binkplayer is the best shot iMHO

 

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I'll try the list... I already did a re-install and the intro shows up just fine. Oh well, I'll report back when I have results.

 

[Castellon]

It is not the intro playing necessarily that the Bink player solves.
Renameing the AVI folder can solve all kinds of problems.

 

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It is not the intro playing necessarily that the Bink player solves.
Renameing the AVI folder can solve all kinds of problems.

w00t! It works! Thanks for the tip - I renamed the AVI folder and suddenly it all worked 100%! Now Belgium will be led to glory... as soon as I find out how

Anyways, thanks to all for the quick replies.

 

[Castellon]

Great!