OOTP5 v5.14b problem

Black_Knight · 10-24-2004, 04:34 PM

Hi - I haven't played my copy of OOTP5 for a few months on this computer, but when I tried to start it last night, the game wouldn't even run. I click the shortcut, the hourglass shows up next to the cursor for a second or two, then nothing else happens. I even open up Task Manager to watch and see if the .exe gets loaded, but it does not.

I have tried uninstalling/re-installing OOTP5 and patching, with no success. I have turned off D3D and the sound, I have upgraded my Catalyst, reinstalled DX 9.0c, and even set my Windows theme back to windows default (not that I had made any serious changes to it to begin with). Nothing. Game runs fine on my laptop. Any suggestions?

EDIT - ahhh wtf - sorry, I posted in the wrong forum somehow. Stupid me...

WinXP SP1
ATI X800 Catalyst v4.10
1 GB RAM
P4 3.2 Ghz
SB Audigy 2

Black_Knight · 10-24-2004, 04:43 PM

Before this thread gets moved to the other forum - I'd like to add that I just tried the OOTP6 demo and got the same thing to happen as OOTP5. Obviously it has something to do with my system, but what could it be? I do not want to format this just for OOTP, especially when everything else works perfectly.

EDIT - I just tried adding Win98 compatibility mode to the OOTP.exe file and got this error message on startup - http://www.gb-blackknight.com/images/ootp_error.jpg

sporr · 10-25-2004, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black_Knight

Before this thread gets moved to the other forum - I'd like to add that I just tried the OOTP6 demo and got the same thing to happen as OOTP5. Obviously it has something to do with my system, but what could it be? I do not want to format this just for OOTP, especially when everything else works perfectly.

EDIT - I just tried adding Win98 compatibility mode to the OOTP.exe file and got this error message on startup - http://www.gb-blackknight.com/images/ootp_error.jpg

Usually I would get the error message that you've displayed whenever more than one user was logged on to XP. If you go and log your other user off, it should correct this.

Black_Knight · 10-25-2004, 04:05 PM

Thanks for the reply, but there are no user/admins issues here. I am the admins of this computer and no one else uses it.

Black_Knight · 11-02-2004, 05:34 PM

So nobody has any ideas what I should do here - nothing to try re-installing, or checking for some error somewhere? Just wanting to know, b/c tech support has not gotten back to me either...

10-24-2004, 04:34 PM	#1
Black_Knight Bat Boy Join Date: May 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 4	OOTP5 v5.14b problem Hi - I haven't played my copy of OOTP5 for a few months on this computer, but when I tried to start it last night, the game wouldn't even run. I click the shortcut, the hourglass shows up next to the cursor for a second or two, then nothing else happens. I even open up Task Manager to watch and see if the .exe gets loaded, but it does not. I have tried uninstalling/re-installing OOTP5 and patching, with no success. I have turned off D3D and the sound, I have upgraded my Catalyst, reinstalled DX 9.0c, and even set my Windows theme back to windows default (not that I had made any serious changes to it to begin with). Nothing. Game runs fine on my laptop. Any suggestions? EDIT - ahhh wtf - sorry, I posted in the wrong forum somehow. Stupid me... WinXP SP1 ATI X800 Catalyst v4.10 1 GB RAM P4 3.2 Ghz SB Audigy 2 Last edited by Black_Knight; 10-24-2004 at 04:36 PM.

10-24-2004, 04:43 PM	#2
Black_Knight Bat Boy Join Date: May 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 4	Before this thread gets moved to the other forum - I'd like to add that I just tried the OOTP6 demo and got the same thing to happen as OOTP5. Obviously it has something to do with my system, but what could it be? I do not want to format this just for OOTP, especially when everything else works perfectly. EDIT - I just tried adding Win98 compatibility mode to the OOTP.exe file and got this error message on startup - http://www.gb-blackknight.com/images/ootp_error.jpg Last edited by Black_Knight; 10-24-2004 at 04:48 PM.

10-25-2004, 04:05 PM	#4
Black_Knight Bat Boy Join Date: May 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 4	Thanks for the reply, but there are no user/admins issues here. I am the admins of this computer and no one else uses it.

11-02-2004, 05:34 PM	#5
Black_Knight Bat Boy Join Date: May 2004 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 4	So nobody has any ideas what I should do here - nothing to try re-installing, or checking for some error somewhere? Just wanting to know, b/c tech support has not gotten back to me either...