Need help installing on new comp

[Zen Blade]

Hey guys,

I'm an old member... way back, like from 2000.
I recently got a new computer and am trying to install STW:Warlord edition on the computer. The installation works, if I click to open the program the screen changes... making it look like the game will be loaded, but then it stops... and then the game doesn't load. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but I can't figure out the problem.

My computer is a Dell inspiron 600m.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks
-Zen Blade

[TosaInu]

Hello Zen Blade,

How're you doing?

I don't know about a solution, maybe you better ask the tech guys in the Apothecary?
Graphic driver?

[Zen Blade]

Hey Tosa,

Still map making I see.
I'm doing ok.
How's everything going with you?


Yeah, I'll go check with the apothecary people. This computer is only 5 months old though... I had hoped everything would be simple.

-Zen Blade

[R'as al Ghul]

Hi Zen blade,

we had your problem seveal times in the past months.
You can do a search in Apothecary and Sword Dojo.

But my best guess is that your Windows Media Player
is not the default player for .mov files.
If you're running WinXP or NT you may also want to run
Shoggy in "compatibility mode". (right click your
shortcut for this setting).

Hope it works

[Drisos]

Hello Zen_Blade,

I had the same problem for months. Do as R'as said. It are probably the .mov files.

Have you seen that some of your old mates are back too? TenkiWarPRIEST and TenkiSoraroti are back to STW MP. Kurando and Koga No Goshi have been active at the .org lately too.

To you.

Hope you fix it and get to play again.

Drisos

[Zen Blade]

well,

windows media player says I have the current version. It is also the default player for all media files.... however, I don't see any selection within windows media player for the ".mov" files...

any more ideas? any more specifics?

-Zen Blade

[Zen Blade]

Ok,

so I tried a bunch of stuff... nothing worked.

my video/graphics card is a "Radeon mobility 9000". anyone know if there are some driver issues with that or anything?

-Zen Blade

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I remember TenkiSoratoti saying he had this problem, and he fixed it. You could try pm'ing him to ask him how he did it. I saw this in the stw mp thread.

[Zen Blade]

here's his reply


"I had the exact same problem and never found out why it happened. However, the problem resolved itself when I re-formatted my Hard Drive."


-I don't think I will be doing that....


sigh,
-Zen Blade

[Drisos]

Don't give up! STW is worth the efforts as you probably remember.

At www.totalwar.com is a similar thread. Look in the 'Shogun' part and for a thread: 'STW drops to desktop at lauch'

Try to find help elsewere too, I mean at a forum for tech help. (not apothecary, just a non-TW forum)

Hope you solve it soon.

47Ronin Drisos

[Zen Blade]

Alas,

I have failed.... my sword greets me warmly.

uhhh... this sucks. why is it that "advanced technology" sucks?

-Zen Blade

[Santi]

Hi, I'm a new member of the forums. I had the same problem and have just find a "solution" that worked for me. In my case the problem was not in Shogun, but in Starforce.

For those that don't know what Starforce is: it's a copy protection software that is included in some games (more each day it seems). In this thread in the Wargamer's forum you can find a guide to know if you have Starforce installed and a link to an uninstaller: http://www.wargamer.com/forums/tm.asp?m=100639

I used the utility mentioned in that thread to remove Starforce, and after restarting the computer, STW worked fine. So you can try this to see if it's your case too.

[slap]

santi...many thanks.
stw works now that i have removed starforce from my pc.

[Ed TW]

Santi Is The MAN!

Dude-I'm so addicted to this game, and I was so bummed since it wouldn't load.
I used that StarForce remover, and it worked like a charm.
I took every program off my pc and the next step was to wipe out my hardrive. Anyone having the same problem go to http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=70
Many Thanks

[Airold]

Hi all! I'm new in the forum, but I´ve been playing STW for a while. I changed my computer 2 years ago, and today i´ve taken back my STW. I´ve installed it, run it, and started a new campaign. Then, when i click over finish my turn, the AI operates. But when i my second turn was supposed to start, the game blocks, and i´ve to clear it from the task manager. During this blocking, i can hear a piece of sound repeating again and again, but neither the image nor the mouse move. My graphics card is nVidia 5700 VE 256Mb, 1 Gb RAM, WINXP SP2. However, i can play single battles without problems. It seems a problem of some kind of file, but i cannot guess which one, since i´ve tried to play them from the cd and everything goes OK. WMP is the default player and so on..

Help would be appreciated.

Thx!!!

Airold

[grinningman]

I had the same problem that others describe where the warlord edition crashes to the desktop on startup. The intro movie would show without any problems, but then it would crash when trying to load the game. I found this was because I had previously set the antialiasing in my nVidia display setting to 2x. Once I switched AA back to 'Application-controlled' the problem disappeared.

[Cetva]

Hi, i was reading all the solutions for runing S:TW,tried them, but i doesnt want to start the game.

I install the game and the newest patch 1.12, unistalled the starforce, all archives are wmp.

When i run the game, i see all the movies intro, but when it goes to the mainscreen the game crashes to the desktop.

An error file is created in the games folder:

Errors for session started: Thu Feb 01 15:55:13 2007

C:\ShogunPatch\Main3d_1.cpp(5030) : DirectX call : DDERR_CURRENTLYNOTAVAIL
C:\ShogunPatch\Main3d_1.cpp(5093) : DirectX call : DDERR_NOTLOCKED
C:\ShogunPatch\Main3d_1.cpp(5030) : DirectX call : DDERR_CURRENTLYNOTAVAIL

[Zen Blade]

It WORKED!!!

Wow, that thing really sucks.

now I can play again.

-Zen Blade

[Jochi Khan]

Glad to see you got it sorted Zen_Blade and slap.

Welcome to the .Org Santi.

Nice to see a new member helping out.

Jochi

[Drisos]

Welcome to the .org, Santi and slap!

Great first post, Santi. You immediately proved to be helpful!

Glad to see things are working again.

[Santi]

Glad it worked for both of you too

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Cool, I can't tell you how many times I've seen this question asked.

Stickied.

[Saigo_Takimori]

Hey guys, Im new here. I had this same problem, I disabled Space Force, and it worked for me also! I am so happy! Thanks for the info, you deserve a medal.

[Kurando]

santi, you are a master of time and space!! It's great to have this up and running again + I'd almost given up hope.

Zen Blade... man, what can I say; it's been too long bro + good to see you!

[Drisos]

Welcome to the .org Saigo!! and welcome to the sword dojo! glad you solved it!

welcome Blueshade! please post that same post in apothecary and you'll get more help I guess. that forum is for tech problems. I really hope you solve it.

Hello Kurando, pleased to meet you! You were a Tenki too, right? sora and warpriest are here too. I hope to see them in mp soon. you want some shogun mp too, or only want sp? if intrested check for the new fakeserver at the 'stw mp' forum. congrats on solving the problem.

[Kurando]

drisos;

Nah mate I was never in a clan; I had to stay impartial because I was the admin here during the S:TW days. I certainly remember tenki_warpriest though, a fine warrior.

All the best,
K-man.

[Drisos]

Oh what a stupid mistake of mine... Sorry Kurando

So you once were admin here? Cool. Are you playing any TW now or are you just here keeping contact with some old friends? Many of the old stw players think Rome isn't worth playing and play MTW or nothing at all now... I'm just new to stw mp.

p.s: you have the greatest avatar of the entire .org!

[moomo]

Well, well, like a true community. I love to see this. Only I've seen it in 2007.
Good spirit guys, keep it up!

[Ludens]

Hello,

New member Rascal just posted this question in the Entrance Hall:

Shogun wont run at all. I reinstalled it, swept for StarForce, patched it and changed compatability mode to Windows 95 and 98 but nothing. When I double click on the desktop icon to start the game the 1st screen comes up of the logo so it looks like its going to load. Then it crashes back to desktop and gives me an error report to send to Microsoft every time. Im at a total loss. Here is the thread I followed to try and fix this issue

(Link)

[Rascal]

Hey guys just posting here to try and find some more info. I'm having a very similar problem as the original thread here and I did everything that everyone posted to try. I cant get Shogun to work yet. Shogun wont run at all. I reinstalled it, swept for StarForce, patched it and changed compatability mode to Windows 95 and 98 but nothing. I tried it without changing compatibility and that wont work either. When I double click on the desktop icon to start the game the 1st screen comes up of the logo so it looks like its going to load. Then it crashes back to desktop and gives me an error report to send to Microsoft every time. Im at a total loss. I need any help i can get. Thanks in advance for any leads you guys can throw my way.