THis Is Dastardly! You Mess UP The Game So i Need Support

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:31 am

THEN I HAVE TO GIVE YOU MY INFO AND SIGN UP HERE FOR ANY HELP WITH THE THINGS YOU LET GO WRONG WITH THE GAME I PAID MY HARD EARNED MONEY FOR????

RIPOFFFF

TAKE THE REGISTRATION OFF THE VIEWING OF THE TECH SUPPORT FORUMS IF YOU HAVE ANY MORALS AT ALL..

Dont Let Em Post But At Least Let People View How To Fix THingS with a Game THat SHould WOrk In THe First Place eh!

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OH and My Tech Problem Is That Videos Only Play Smooth Before THe Campaign, But after the campain Videos Are Stuttering and the MP3 File finishes waaay ahead of the video.. Pretty much totally ruining the game experience.. I know exactly whats happening too.. You all dont shut the damn game map down before the video plays.. SO its all running at once and kills the video..

How the hell do you overlook something as obvious and terrible as that in the first place makers of this game.??

Tell me that.. Cause i know nothing about games and could have figured that one out...

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:35 am

Hell It Would Be Nice If I COuld Just Watch The Damn Movies On THeir Own!

But nooo You Gotta Make Em seperate corosponding video and mp3 files... wtf are you all smoking..

You cant even watch em ingame after you beat the game! THERES NO FKIN REWARD>. COME ON GET IT TOGETHER>

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:40 am

Sorry you are having problems. Which version of the game do you have - i.e. what country did you buy it in? What is your OS and harsware specs? Do you have the latest drivers for your graphics and sound card as this is the usual cause of this type of problem?

The movies and speech are separate because the game is available in multiple languages and each language has its own sound track.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:01 pm

Um its obviously nothing to do with my specs dude.. I play the movies before the battles fine..

The problem is the Game engine is running the battle scene while the movie plays after the battle..

do you understand me

The map with whatever troops i have left over is sitting there behind the video..

You cant tell me noone has ever noticed this..

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:13 pm

The intro movie is in a different format - Bink player to be precise, but this cannot be played inside the game, so in game we use avi's.

If you tell us your tech specs we'll try and help but if not there is very little we can do! The engine works fine for the many tens of thousands of other people who have played the movies.

Please also check your drivers are up to date.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:08 pm

Sigh

You dont understand still so i will explain one more time..

I am NOT refering to the intro..

I AM refering to the AVI Files That Intro the individual battles which work fine

.. They are the same exact format as those which you see at the end of the battles..

The videos at the end of the battle has a crap framrate because the battle is still behind it..

It has to do with your game not my setup.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:22 pm

Yes I am listening very carefully and understand what you are saying.

This does not happen on other peoples machines, which means it is related to your PC hardware. It is probably a bug with your graphics card drivers, but as you wont tell us what that is or check for driver updates there is very little we can do to help.

Until you post your specs & OS, and which country you bought the game in I'll hold off on replying.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:57 pm

iainmcneil wrote:Yes I am listening very carefully and understand what you are saying.

This does not happen on other peoples machines, which means it is related to your PC hardware. It is probably a bug with your graphics card drivers, but as you wont tell us what that is or check for driver updates there is very little we can do to help.

Until you post your specs & OS, and which country you bought the game in I'll hold off on replying.

You say you understand but in the post before this one you tell me its the Intro movie in bink format which is totally wrong..

The files that play right are the same kinda files that dont play right..

The ONLY difference between them is that the (In-Game outro video and mp3 dont play at the same rate because the video is lagged by the game engine running in the background.)

I assume since you cant fix this problem your steering me in frustrating directions hoping i wont point out reality anymore..

BTW what the hell would the country its sold in matter.. usa btw..
My comp is a 2.8 Gig celeron d with WinXP, a geforce 6200 (with the latest official drivers from nvidia) and 1 Gig of Ram

Far exeeding the requirements for your game..

Now what smartie pants.

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:00 pm

I'm loath to reply when you're being so belligerent, but I'm a little confused.

The battle engine doesn't run behind the movie which are displayed post battle, at that point it flows through a different code path. If you could be more specific (as Iain has already asked) about when and what you see then perhaps we can help.

My guess would be that it might be a vsync problem, movie playback is pretty low-intensity on the 3D pipeline and that is where odd stuttering tends to show up. Check the settings on the nVidia control panel in the video settings. There is usually fine control of how the vsync works.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:45 pm

Why would it only happen with the post battle ones?

Why when i change the battle settings such as shadows do the videos run faster?? Hmmm?

Post by **pipfromslitherine** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:08 pm

I can't answer that. All I can tell you is that your guess that the 3D or the model is running behind the movie is entirely wrong.

It could be that the battle moves memory around such that the movie codec behaves differently, or interacts differently with one of the many system DLs that they make use of. As I say, you should check out the vsync settings you have, as a poorly behaved driver at some point could be failing to allow the movie thread to gain enough time.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:53 am

i dont have vsync turned on

its not necessary

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:08 am

There will be no reply to this thread until you give full system specks and OS, plus the location where you purchased the game. The game runs fine - it is a bug with your hardware, which we can't help you fix if you don't tell us what it is.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:25 pm

Why dont you read the posts before you respond to them.. Ive already answered your questions..

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:05 pm

The game is not available in the USA. Please clarify whre you obtained it and which publisher logo is on the box.

lysol · Post by **lysol** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 2:38 am

well i was on the border and the default thing says spanish..

it didnt come in any box?

it was like 4 bucks used at some trade shop

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:42 am

Really.... lets assume you are telling the truth and you bought it without a box for $4 - you knew it was an illegal copy so you are breaking the law. Having said that I don't believe a word of it because there is no Spanish version! You are lying and have been from the start because you are a pirate and playing a pirated copy that has bugs because the pirates couldn't even crack it properly!

Your e-mail : jobe411@hotmail.com
Your IP : 74.236.227.173
BellSouth.net Inc.

I am banning you for piracy. Please dont come back.

mehoffer · Post by **mehoffer** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:03 pm

Im Even Gonna Post THe .bmp Picture Files For Backgrounds WHICH INCLUDES SPANISH FLAG

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Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:21 pm

This is a pirated copy, whether you paid money for it or not. We do not support pirated copies.

princepbem2 · Post by **princepbem2** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:33 pm

Wait though.. Stop banning me and explain...

How it is pirated exactly.. Someone really went to the trouble of translating your whole readme, installer, possibly ingame script to spanish???? Come on.. You sure you just are mistaking what languages you put in this with what you put in another game or something.?? Oh and making the flag and all that too.. It really really looks like you made that flag.. Its the same "style" as the others..

Mabey you think reselling something is pirating.. hardly..

you know when you ban me and respond both that dont make sense since im suppose to not be able to read what your saying..