Spartan not playing

nato · Post by **nato** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:58 pm

Spartan no worky worky. I bought the game awhile ago and it worked but i just reinstalled it cause i feel like playing it and it not working. It loads up the screen where i hit play game then never does anything after that, i have direct x installed and i deleted the movies so help me

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:44 pm

What version of the game do you have (which publisher)? Also, what changes have you made to your system since you last played it? Do you have the latest versions of the drivers for your graphics card and your sound card?

Cheers

Pip

nato · Post by **nato** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:50 pm

well i dont really know much of what your talking about. i downloaded the 1017 patch or whatever it was called, (the US graphsim one) and how do i find out the sound card and graphics because this used to be my moms and now its mine, and mine was the one i had played it on before but this computer is faster and stuff.

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:10 pm

If you right click on the desktop, choose properties, then the settings tab at the top of the popup, it should display the name of your graphics card. You can then go to the manufacturer's website to download the latest drivers.

One thing you can try, to determine whether the sound is causing a problem, is to run with the sound off. Go to the directory that the game installed to, open the DATA folder then open USER.TXT. Add the following line to the file, then save it.

NOSOUND 1

Then try running the game and seeing if it allows you to play.

Cheers

Pip

nato · Post by **nato** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:36 pm

It says plug and play monitter in intel(R) 82810E Graphics Controller (microsoft corporation)
so i go to the micorsoft and download stuff for this? and the no sound thing didnt work.
and what updates should i be looking for i cant find anything on microsoft

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:52 am

The Intel site that I assume is most relevant is:

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts ... ductID=798

But can you be more specific on how it is crashing - are you seeing the main menu screen after the movies? Does it immediately crash?

Cheers

Pip

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:38 am

Check your box - do you have the graphsim logo on it? If not, whose logo do you have? If you download the graphsim patch - you would need to have the graphsim disk or the copy protection would fail & this is probably what you are seeing.

nato · Post by **nato** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:26 am

yes my copy is the graphsim one and i dont even get to the main menu i click play spartan than i see nothing else in the game, it doenst mattter though i got it working on my brothers computer

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:06 am

You could try renaming teh movies dir & that will stop the movies playing, or you coudl try adding "NoSound 1" to the user.txt file in the data dir. This will turn off sound as some cards have caused problems with the sound system we used. If you're happy playing on your brothers PC, then don't worry!