Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 the games sets up correctly but when i start a new game it starts to load and then freezes and when i minimize the game wondows tells me about an error and just closes the game my computer is a pretty new quad core vista with 3 gig of ram and i just upgraded the drivers after reading the other posts. i uninstalled and reinstalled from another download and have the same problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Redstart Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Could you give us a little more details on the error report? What does it say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Also, which game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 and graphic card's model wouldn't hurt either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 sorry for not giving enough information the gsme is geneforge 5 when i start a new game it goes to the loading screen and says creating new campaign and loading scenario data. after about five seconds it freezes and when i minimize a windows error message comes up saying geneforge5.exe has stopped working a problem caused it to stop windows will close my computer is an intel core 2 quad q6600 at 2.4 ghz with 3 gb ram and i have a geforce 8400 graphics card with updated drivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 tried uninstalling and then reinstalling gf already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 yes i uninstalled and reinstalled from a different mirror download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Weird. Do other SW games (in particular, Geneforge 4) work properly on your computer? If so, the problem must have something to do with the new graphics capabilities of G5. If not, it would have to be some weird system configuration problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 yes the other games all work perfectly. i actually just tried geneforge 4 just to see what happens and it worked perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Earth Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 uninstall gf5, search from your hd and registry all traces about geneforge and spiderwebsoftware and del those and reinstall. if you have other spidweb's games installed then don't do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 i tried everything but the registry wipe and somehow got it to work last nite, this morning it didn't work again so i looked for anything different and discovered that if i had windows media player running the game got stuck by scenario data. but if i reset the computer and started the game it worked. also if i then minimized and started media player i didn't have any problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 omg im an idiot its not media player after all. i was playing around with things and i figured out the when i open the game from a shortcut it works but if i open it up from the widget informer dock that i have most shortcuts running on it dosen't work. thanx everyone for all your help though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 Originally Posted By: lifeguardernie omg im an idiot its not media player after all. i was playing around with things and i figured out the when i open the game from a shortcut it works but if i open it up from the widget informer dock that i have most shortcuts running on it dosen't work. thanx everyone for all your help though If you right click on a Shortcut and select Properties, you will see that there is a Start In field. That has to be set to the game's home directory. If that bit of information gets lots when you move the shortcut to the widget, the game won't run. I suspect that's what's happening. - Jeff Vogel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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