Disable the intro

**Spearman** · 04-09-2009, 21:10

Can the theatric intro and swirling ACTIVISION of impending doom be disabled? I've never let it get that far, but I've read in the bug reports that completing the intro will cause a CTD. So there's my non-emotional reason. As for my emotional reason...I'm tired of the seizures.

**Mediolanicus** · 04-09-2009, 21:12

Add -nm after the EB shortcut line.

Note that you won't be able to see the EB faction intros either then.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 04-09-2009, 21:26

Originally Posted by Spearman

Can the theatric intro and swirling ACTIVISION of impending doom be disabled? I've never let it get that far, but I've read in the bug reports that completing the intro will cause a CTD.

So this problem is common? I have this bug on my vista laptop, and EB always crashes when the intro is completed, but my older XP desktop never crashes after the intro. Then again, I have heard some people with XP reporting this bug as well

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Perhaps it is a graphics card problem. My laptop graphics card does not support anti-initialisation for instance, despite being technically better and more advanced than my desktop integrated grpahics card. Both are NVIDIA. Maybe the fact that the laptop GC does not support certain features predisposes it to cause CTDs?

**Belisarius II** · 04-09-2009, 22:28

I would love to see that swirling Activision gone forever, and I have gone through the entire intro on an XP and the game doesn't cause a CTD.

**Ibrahim** · 04-09-2009, 22:57

why not tinker with rome.LNT? its the file that handles all that.

**DaciaJC** · 04-10-2009, 00:14

I've never had a problem with completing the intro, and I'm running Vista to boot. I wouldn't mind, though, being rid of that swirling Activision for good.

**/Bean\** · 04-10-2009, 10:54

I like it; its a testament to the good times when Activision ruled and SEGA could only look on in envy.

**RawPower** · 04-11-2009, 20:42

Running xp here and never had an ctd after the intro.

**Raygereio** · 04-11-2009, 20:51

Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus

Perhaps it is a graphics card problem. My laptop graphics card does not support anti-initialisation for instance, despite being technically better and more advanced than my desktop integrated grpahics card. Both are NVIDIA. Maybe the fact that the laptop GC does not support certain features predisposes it to cause CTDs?

I had this happen twice now, one time was because I had an old version of windows media player installed - apparently RTW doesn't like any WMP version older then 9.
The other time happened after I messed up some of my video codecs, reïnstalling those fixed the movie related CTD's as well.