Why does it not work? :-(

[unmerged(52340)]

I discovered EUII in 2004 and I played night and day without any problem.

But one day I decided to quit, and unistalled the game.

Later, I tried to reinstall it on my computer and since then I am unable to make it work, play, launch properly.

I bought last week the same game and installed it on my PC (I thought my former CD was broken): I install it without (seemingly) any problem, but each time I try to launch the game, it suddenly stops. I cannot even reach the "Menu"!!! All I have is a black screen and that's all!

I feel that I'm going to blow a fuse soon.

Do I need some patch to make it work? And which one?
Is my computer the problem? (It has all the programs needed to play the game)
Have you ever faced that problem?



I need some help.

Thanks (and happy new year by the way!)

 

[AndrewT]

Here is Castellon's standard advice: if it does not work then post back here.

1) Make sure you have the latest patch for the game.
2) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
3) Set the color depth to 16BIT
4) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.
5) Update your Windows, update your Video card drivers and audio card drivers. Then repeat steps 1-3.

 

[Castellon]

All that and yes you do want a patch 1.09 is the latest, you just need that one patch as it contains all the other ones.

 

[unmerged(52360)]

Sorry to intrude - I'm not an administrator - but have you checked your registry editor?

It is possible, that Paradox Entertainment won't disappear from there, even if you have removed the game from the rest of your machine.

Hope you'll get it working.

 

[Castellon]

In that case he would not have been able to install, please read support forum rules before posting in this subforum.
You can find them in the sticky thread at the top of this forum called "*** IMPORTANT: READ BEFORE POSTING HERE *** "