I have a Hitachi DVD-ROM GD 7500, a pentium 3 1 ghz processor, and ATI Radeon 7200 video card with the latest drivers, and 512 mb ram. I having the same problem others mentioned in the Legion forum where the game starts up fine, and I see the intro movie, but then everything goes black and I hear a little beep. I originally thought it was the video card, and it did have updated drivers, which I installed, but the same problem occured. I checked for updated drivers for the DVD-ROM as stated in the readme file, but Hitachi had no updated drivers. What should be my next step?
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somebody said that pressing ESC a few times solved the problem.
I don't have the final version, but in mine, there is a directory named \data\movied. Rename it to movies_old and see if it works.
I don't have the final version, but in mine, there is a directory named \data\movied. Rename it to movies_old and see if it works.
I did what you recommended and the screen goes black right away, and I still hear that little ping sound. Before I change that file the movie worked fine, both the strategy first movie, and the legion movie.
I also tried escape, but that just exits the game.
I also tried escape, but that just exits the game.
I'm having the exact same problem, I changed the file to movies_old, and now the screen stays black after that annoying "ping"
Legion fade to black
I had the same problem in my Creative 52x CD. I tried it from my TDK Velo CD-R and it works. THis sounds like either a mastering problem or Safe Disk once again fouling up the works.
I had the same problem in my Creative 52x CD. I tried it from my TDK Velo CD-R and it works. THis sounds like either a mastering problem or Safe Disk once again fouling up the works.
that is my guess, copy protection problem.
I have PMed Iain to get his opinion on this
If it is copy protection, I'll have to direct you to the publisher though.
I have PMed Iain to get his opinion on this
If it is copy protection, I'll have to direct you to the publisher though.
There seems to be a problem with reading from some CD drives. If you have more than one CD drive try placing the CD in the other drive. Even if your other drive is a burner or you did not install the game from the other drive give it a try.
It appears that the disk must be in the master CD drive for it to be detected.
If you can't get it to work in any of your CD drives, check that the switches on the back of one of the drives are set to be the master. We have had one incident where someone only had one CD drive, but it was set to be the slave. When told to be the master the game ran ok.
It appears that the disk must be in the master CD drive for it to be detected.
If you can't get it to work in any of your CD drives, check that the switches on the back of one of the drives are set to be the master. We have had one incident where someone only had one CD drive, but it was set to be the slave. When told to be the master the game ran ok.
LOL. Iv'e had the computer for a year, and I never even opened the cd burner. Sure enough, putting the legion cd in there worked. Thanks for solving the problem.
A technical question
I remember having this problem with other games besides legion and with burned disks. Does the CD-R laser "read" better than a standard laser or is it something else entirely?
I remember having this problem with other games besides legion and with burned disks. Does the CD-R laser "read" better than a standard laser or is it something else entirely?
it depends on copy protection and the type of CD. Some copy protection scheme works well with one type of protection while others won't work at all.
Some brands and some models can be better than some others, but generally speaking they are of equivalent quality. Some CD-R can read tracks differently than regular CDs but I think it is a question of software (the burner) more than hardware.
Some brands and some models can be better than some others, but generally speaking they are of equivalent quality. Some CD-R can read tracks differently than regular CDs but I think it is a question of software (the burner) more than hardware.
Alas, I cannot get Legion to run on my computer either....
I have a DVD drive and a CD-R drive (one is master, the other slave) on the secondary IDE bus. Legion does not run from either of these drives.
From the CDR drive, I get the infamous "bing" after the screen goes black. Pressing ESC exits to the desktop. From the DVD drive, the game hangs (screen goes black, no "bing", CTRL+ALT+DEL shows Legion not responding). Any suggestions?
dano
I have a DVD drive and a CD-R drive (one is master, the other slave) on the secondary IDE bus. Legion does not run from either of these drives.
From the CDR drive, I get the infamous "bing" after the screen goes black. Pressing ESC exits to the desktop. From the DVD drive, the game hangs (screen goes black, no "bing", CTRL+ALT+DEL shows Legion not responding). Any suggestions?
dano
can you try to switch the drives? the one who is master, make it slave and the other one make it master?
I can't see another solution for now
I can't see another solution for now
Dannward, can you report this problem to Strategy Firsts tech support as they may be able to help you and they can also get your machine specs and see if they match with someone else who has a similar problem. If we can work out a pattern we have a chance of fixing the problem, but without being able to repeat it, its very difficult to do anything about it.
Cheers
Cheers
support@strategyfirst.com
web site:
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they have a tech support section on their site, but they prefer handling these questions through e-mail.
web site:
www.strategyfirst.com
they have a tech support section on their site, but they prefer handling these questions through e-mail.
I've been having the same problem with Legion--the screen going black after the intros. It also goes black if I press the space bar or ESC during the intro. I uninstalled the game & re-installed it but that didn't help.
I installed & ran the game from my CD-R drive but I also have a DVD on this computer & will try to run the game from there. If it still doesn't work, what should I do?
I installed & ran the game from my CD-R drive but I also have a DVD on this computer & will try to run the game from there. If it still doesn't work, what should I do?
you e-mail SF and tell them you have a problem and you want the game to work or you want a refund
If I can find something, I'll let you know in this thread.
If I can find something, I'll let you know in this thread.
I tried the game in my DVD player & it worked. When I inserted the CD, I got an autorun error, but the game started OK & I was able to run it fine. When I exited the game (voluntarily) I got an error message saying that Legion would now close (I forgot to write down the text before I clicked OK).
My DVD is my D drive so maybe the game wants to be run from D(?).
My DVD is my D drive so maybe the game wants to be run from D(?).
there is a problem with master/slave drive; if your DVD is master it will want to be run from this drive otherwise it won't work.
Sound Card/Drivers with same result
Sound card drivers can also cause this freeze up after the initial movies. Originally, I had no problems playing Legion. However, sometime around the installation of Legion, the sound in another game (Strange Adventures in Infinite Space) stopped working. I later found out that this appeared to be a problem with Direct Sound, and the stuttering sound was eventually fixed by turning off all hardware acceleration. Unfortunately, after I did this Legion exhibited the behavior listed above. However, by going back in an re-enabling hardware acceleration, Legion now works.
Obviously, I can just keep changing this back and forth, but I thought that a report here might shed some light for other people that might have similiar problems.
Now, I would like to get a new driver for my sound card.....
but DELL has nothing but the originial drivers and Turtle Beach directs me right back to DELL since it was a custom OEM card .
I have to suspect some DLL somewhere has changed detrimentally, but since I can work around the problem, I am not too interested in diving through Microsoft's mess. So I report this, but don't really expect to do much better, (well, unless I buy a *supported* sound card ).
Sound card drivers can also cause this freeze up after the initial movies. Originally, I had no problems playing Legion. However, sometime around the installation of Legion, the sound in another game (Strange Adventures in Infinite Space) stopped working. I later found out that this appeared to be a problem with Direct Sound, and the stuttering sound was eventually fixed by turning off all hardware acceleration. Unfortunately, after I did this Legion exhibited the behavior listed above. However, by going back in an re-enabling hardware acceleration, Legion now works.
Obviously, I can just keep changing this back and forth, but I thought that a report here might shed some light for other people that might have similiar problems.
Now, I would like to get a new driver for my sound card.....
but DELL has nothing but the originial drivers
and Turtle Beach directs me right back to DELL since it was a custom OEM card .I have to suspect some DLL somewhere has changed detrimentally, but since I can work around the problem, I am not too interested in diving through Microsoft's mess. So I report this, but don't really expect to do much better, (well, unless I buy a *supported* sound card
).