HOI problems with running the game.

[Castellon]

O'Donnel Aboo! wrote on 05-06-2003 12:33:
I'm wondering if the new 1.04 patch has been affecting anyone else's sytems. I only ask because i refmormatted my system after having some problems with it. It worked great after the reformat...then i put HoI back on, and downloaded the patch. Now i'm getting all the same errors as before. As someone who LOVES this game, i'm quite troubled by this.

Now, my machine is a bit of a dinosaur, but it has all the minimum requirements for the game, and as you may have seen from my posts, had no trouble running the game at all for months. I have a Pentium II 400 mhz processor, 128 MB Ram, all the soundcard and video card requirements, etc., ant windows 98 [2nd edition]

Hearts of Iron will load up as far as "Initializing Sounds" and then crash. Europa Universalis 2, un-modded will not load up at all.

Help me, Obi-wan....you're my only hope


Thanks,
the technophobe

 

[Castellon]

First thing to try is always renaming the AVI folder to AVI_back.

The bink player is really the only thing that would effect other programs.

 

[Castellon]

That will only turn off the music though, not the sound!

 

[Castellon]

Is that where you installed the game?
Have you ever installed to any other directory?

 

[Castellon]

You mentioned getting errors after DL the patch, the same ones you were getting before reformatting.
Can you ellaborate, what kind of errors?

 

[Castellon]

Re: the errors

Originally posted by O'Donnel Aboo!
These stopped after my latest reformat [about 18 hours ago]

COuld Not find a required DLL: XOR.DLL

Illegal operations:

SysCfg32
Wupdate
Msgsrv32
5py

I don't know much about computers, but those look like Windows errors to me. As i said, they have not occured this time around, but the "not a valid previous version" error is new.

Also, it took three tries to DL the patch fully, as it would finish downloading and it would be missing half a meg of what thesetup was looking for. So i'd delete, try again.

That's today's mess, anyway.

5py
is that spy ware?

as for the other you can try jdrou's suggestion.

 

[Castellon]

Either your game is corrupt on the HD or the patch is corrupted during DL.

You did not edit the game/ or files/ or install any mods right.

 

[Castellon]

Make sure you follow the unistall instructions. you can find them in the self help thread, #1 is a hotlink to them.

 

[Castellon]

Try patching to 1.03b.
You are sure you are using the correct patch for your version right?

 

[Castellon]

Strategy First North American Version 1.03B

SF has them all on their site.

 

[Castellon]

please list your system specs, include the sound and video card driver versions.

 

[Castellon]

Try setting the operating system resolution at 800x 600 16 bit.
Also run Euconfig and set the game resolution at 800x600.
Keep the AVI folder renamed.

 

[Castellon]

Next thing to try is to disable your sound card in device manager.

 

[Castellon]

What version of DirextX are you running?
Have you looked for an updated driver for your Video card?

 

[Castellon]

Well, after reformatting, you need to first, get your internet working, then update your operating system, Video card and sound card to the latest drivers.

Why do you need to keep reformatting?

 

[Castellon]

Definately install all the upgrades available for your operating system, It is after all quite dated.

Install the 8.1 it will be backward compatible.

latest drivers for Audio and Video are also recommended.

 

[Castellon]

Obviously since you are having trouble with other programs as well, this is not HOI related.

I would say you have a bad Harddrive or memory or motherboard.
Hard to tell at a distance.

As for under $50, well you would have to find a guy selling them out of the back of his van in some dark alley.

 

[Castellon]

Do a fresh install then just 1.03b and it should work for you.
Putting an old patch on the 1.04 would cause problems.