Solution to game freeze (brienlu)

[Sasaki Kojiro]

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

Credit goes to brienlu