Mouse tracers

**red comyn** · 11-22-2004, 18:42

Howdie folks, after installing patch 1.1 on a vinalla copy of RTW things have went a bit funny!!! The two opening movies dont play it just cuts straight to the options menu. When moving the mouse around it leaves copys of the cursor arrow all over the screen where it has been.Although the menu still works.

A friend tells me that he read somewhere that if playing as the senate this bug/fault will cause the game to crash if I open the senate window, as well as if I capture a wonder or eliminate a faction.

So whats going on folks? tried reinstalling but no change.

Is the patch bugged?

Or am I yet again doing something dumb?

**Sin Qua Non** · 11-22-2004, 19:00

Try reinstalling then patching, before you mod anything. That will at least confirm or deny your senate theory. AFAIK, the patch has no noticeable bugs in that department. It was really a MP patch.

**red comyn** · 11-22-2004, 19:31

nothings been modded and have tryed reinstalling.

**Sin Qua Non** · 11-22-2004, 19:42

How are your graphics drivers? Up to date? That would be my next area of inspection.

**Bhruic** · 11-22-2004, 19:51

Most of the reports of trailing mouse/missing videos seems to be attributed to the lack of windows media format 9. Try reinstalling that and see if it fixes the problem.

Bh

**red comyn** · 11-22-2004, 20:48

Why would it stop working after being fine since the day after it came out?

**hoom** · 11-22-2004, 20:52

Did you install the wmv9 runtime?
If not, then do

**Bhruic** · 11-22-2004, 21:46

Originally Posted by red comyn

Why would it stop working after being fine since the day after it came out?

I have no idea. I'm not sure if that's relevant at this point.

I just know that I had the same situation happen when I installed on my laptop, and that's because I neglected to install the wmv9. Once I installed it, the game worked fine.

Bh

**red comyn** · 11-23-2004, 16:46

Is this the windows program from the redist file on the RTW disk?

**Bhruic** · 11-23-2004, 19:43

Yes, it's on the first one. When the install screen pops up, go to "extras". It should be the third option down.

Bh

**red comyn** · 11-24-2004, 19:04

Still no joy folks tried reinstalling and installing wmv9b but still getting tracers and no movies

Any other bright ideas? or where i'm going wrong in the process?

After many yrs of total war based joy way back from the original shogun, due to the many issues with Rome and much to the joy of my long suffering Girlfriend and just about ready to ditch the whole thing.

**hoom** · 11-24-2004, 20:41

Whats your PC specs? (esp. graphics & mouse)
Do you have any codec packs/media players installed?
Is there anything odd in your mouse settings?

**red comyn** · 11-26-2004, 19:49

havnt changed anything (aprt from downloading patch) this is why its stikes me as strange.

Can someone provide an "idiots guide" to finding the bits they think arn't working right tried reinstalling the bits I think (wmf9) are the problem but to no avail.