Movies not playing in menus and at start-up

[Lonely Soldier]

Bwian - well the game claims to require windows media 9 format software (which I installed when prompted in the set-up).

[Lonely Soldier]

I recently played another game (which runs normally in-game) but it displayed an error message saying it could not play the opening logo and intro movie because of a Direct3D error...

Maybe this is the problem?

[maliq]

I encountered the same problem your having.

What I was able to find out is that my Media player was is not playing the .wmv files where it should. In windows i found that there was 2 media players(found this in win98SE, but seems to be the same case in the newer OS), you can search for it in the Find/Search in the start-up.

I saw that the .wmv plays on mplayer but not on mplayer2 ( dafault player ). So, i went to the game dir > ( I'm sorry I cannot remember the pathway for those wmv files ) once there i simply associated those files to always play on that player ( open-with mplayer, use this program always selection box ). After that everything was working perfectly.

Hope this helps out. I know how frustrating that can be.

[Lonely Soldier]

Edit - FIXED