Author Topic: Creamo! (Read 295 times)

Curval · « **on:** January 02, 2003, 05:13:34 PM »

Hey man.

Okay...I took your advice. I bought Battlefield 1942. I told my son about it, got him all psyched. I loaded it with him standing in front of me eagerly watching the screen for the starting graphics.

It looked like stuff was happening at first...a little splash screen appeared..then...poof. CTD.

Tried again. CTD.

Rebooted computer. Tried again. CTD.

To the message boards...saw EA GAMES.

(still bitter about Air Warrior)...figured..well, okay it will be worth it.

Tried to create an account to post on BB...seems like every "handle" but butthead45777776 was taken..all the way through to putting in address etc. It won't accept my very valid, but definately not US, postal code.

Browsed the BB in "guest mode"...found the issue, but the various threads containing the answers were filled with so many opinions that I couldn't tell who was full of s_it and who wasn't.

Tried to register my copy for tech support...US Canada Austrailia are the only acceptable addresses.

Gonna try a few things before boxing this baby back up.

Either you got lucky with the game (in terms of your system being able to run it no sweat), I got unlucky with the game...or you have perpetrated the perfect "gotcha" of all time. It seems to be only slightly less cruel than convincing someone WW2Online is a "load it up and go" kind of game.

I'm not really pissed...this stuff happens. It's just...aarrgg...arrggg...AAAR RGGG.

I WANNA PLAY IT

udet · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2003, 05:19:01 PM »

Probably your graphics card.Did you try to change the game's video settings? Also, try to get the mostr ecent vesrion of Directx (9.0), and the most recent drivers for your video card.
I have an Intel video card on my computer, and the Singleplayer demo of 1942 isn't working, because the demo version does not support it. I don't know whether the full version has the same problem

Creamo · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2003, 05:38:32 PM »

I think there is a patch 1.2? but it's been awhile. Install it, then patch it, but sounds like a video or soundcard driver problem. A guy couldn't get it too work on his laptop at all, just splash screen then ctd, but every other computer we installed it on worked good.

Im not creamocase spokesmen for the game though. It's just alot of fun and a diversion. Try contacting their tech support after you update all your drivers which seem to me would cause the problem.

Curval · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2003, 06:23:37 PM »

Yea, looks like it is video card related.

Sucks.

Time to fly.