Issues with AOD Crashing from Game Menu

[unmerged(223311)]

I'm hoping someone has seen this before and can offer a solution. I tried to find a thread covering it in these forums, but was unsuccessful.

I launch the game from my desktop shortcut, and it loads just fine to the main menu. I can select Tutorial or Single player and the game selection menu will launch properly. When I select a tutorial or a campaign scenario, the application crashes out.

I've been able to get AOD to run once or twice by doing a full restart of my machine, but that solution is no longer effective.

My machine is -
Dell Inspiron 145
T6500 2.10GHZ processor
4.00Gig Memory
32 Bit Windows Vista Basic OS
Video Card is the Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series with 32MB dedicated Video memory and 96MB system video memory

I'd greatly appreciate any advice or direction anyone can give. I got through the first three tutorials before restarting my machine didn't resolve the issue, and am thinking I'll really enjoy this if I can ever get it to run.

Cheers.

 

[Denniss]

Your AOD version is ?
You bought AoD from ?

Probably the unsupported/slow graphics card.
Have you tried to run the game as Administrator ?
Did you install the game into program files or did you use a folder outside this folder to avoid the protection "problem" feature of Vista ?

 

[unmerged(223311)]

I bought AOD from Steam, and have version 1.04.

I initially had it installed in the program files but uninstalled both steam and AOD and put them in their own folder on the c drive. For whatever reason I'm not able to right click on the AOD file in my programs list, but I can run steam as an admin and launch the game from the steam menu, but that doesn't seem to be working.

As far as the unsupported/slow video card, I'm kind a rookie as far as PC gaming goes. The reqs are 64 RAM of DirectX 9.0. I've got 32 dedicated and 96 system video memory. Which number does the requirement refer to?

Thanks!

 

[Denniss]

Your graphics card is slow and offers an reduced featureset. Memory might be OK but these cards and their drivers have never been optimized for games.
Please navigate to the folder AOD resides in and try to directly launch the aodgame.exe. It may work or not, please wait for AoD Steam users to offer some help.

 

[unmerged(223311)]

Thanks for the idea. Didn't work, but thanks anyway. If anyone running AOD off Steam has any other ideas...

 

[froglegs]

I am not sure that this is the fix but try going into the game files and rename the avi folder something like avi_old so it does not fire.

I have a state of the art Intel i7 quad with 8 gb and a 1 gb state of the art video and the game would crash every time until I did what I just suggested.

Your problem sound a bit different but give it a try -- takes 1 minute to do. It was the Binkplay thing for me.