Solution to game freeze (brienlu)

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I first played this Shogun:TW Game in 2000, I really miss the STW game so that I purchase a copy from eBay (Sold-Out version) and Installed it yesterday.

I know this game is with all kinds of problems and I have accumulated some experience to fix them during the past 5 years, however, i encounterd another problem yesterday which is new to me:

Whenever a Daimyo dies, the game freezes forever and Ctrl + Alt +Del won't help. otherwise this game runs perfert.

I spent good 5 hours reading this BBS last night but didn't found any solution to it, it seems to me that no one has encountered such a problem before?.

I tried serveral methods:

*reinstall the game- no luck
*patch to 1.02b - no luck
*run the Star Protection cleaner - no luck
*change the display mode to 16 bit - no luck
*update drivers for sound and video - no luck
*re-install Windows Media Player - no luck
*link all media files back to WMP- no luck
*download the newest codec in dxdiag - no luck
*switch off the sound accelerator - no luck
*run the game at the minimum requirment (low graphic, no sound, no 3D accelerator - no luck
*change the death poems MP3 files to a "fixed version" - no luck
*change mp3 files to WAV files and change them back with another codec- no luck

that was annoying because i really want to play this game during the weekend but it just didn't work for me...

I eventually found the solution: delete the "Poems" folder under "Voices" ("Foices" if you are listenning to Japanese voices). The Game then runs perfect (without sound for those poems)

What a $%^&@ game....EA should have done a better job on coding.

Hope that helps people, though no one is playing it now...?


BTW:

1. copy the files in the CDs into hard drive before installation will speed up the installation process by 50%

2. once installed, you can simply copy the game folder to another PC and play without installing it again, but you still need the Disk 1 to run it

3. Is there anyone still playing this game? online?

4. could anyone recommend a good mod/patch/additonal campaign for this game?

Thanks,nice to meet all of you

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Credit goes to brienlu ~:grouphug:

{Shiney Happy people}
The fix is there Simply as.

"I eventually found the solution: delete the "Poems" folder under "Voices" ("Foices" if you are listenning to Japanese voices). The Game then runs perfect (without sound for those poems)"

hmmm... of course it's not an action of piracy, but it tells how you can do so. I think it's against forum rules indeed... perhaps Sasaki missed it while reading?

well,

this part of step 2 is good:
"2. once installed, you can simply copy the game folder to another PC and play without installing it again, but you still need the Disk 1 to run it"

maybe the following part should be edited.

HooOoOooOOoOoOoOoOowwwwWWWWWWWWWWWWL,

Just popped in to say "Hi".

Nice to see some familiar faces~:)

See you soon maybe~;)

Kans.

Kansuke!!~:) ~:)

welcome back!~:cheers:

if you wish to play some stw mp... details on server are in the 'STW MP' forum here, but I also posted in a 'Kansuke' thread over at the wolves forums.. perhaps you read that one already.

Hi Kan! Hope ur well my friend and hope to see u in foyer! On my way back aswell after a year of no gameing...

More Players HOORAY!
Hope to see you in the foyer some time people :)