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oldfart
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Post subject: Hi, pardon the ignorance, but I really need some help.  Posted: August 1st, 2009, 5:17 pm |
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I've been a fan of BZ1 since it came out. I recently found my Red Odyssey disk, and couldn't find the BZ original disk, so I did a search and found you guys. I downloaed the 1.4M (I think it'a called that), and I'm having a heck of a time getting it to work on Vista. I managed to get it to run in windowed mode, but from there I'm clueless.
I don't know anything about programing, I tried to follow directions provided but it's all Greek to me.
Is there anyone here, that can give me a blow by blow on what I should be doing in laymans terms?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I have following system:
Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 2.53 Ghx
4 GB Ram
ATI Mobililty Radeon HD 3670 500MB Graphics Card
Vista Home Premium 32bit
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Mr. Spock
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Post subject: Re: Hi, pardon the ignorance, but I really need some help. Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 10:38 am |
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For starters, download BZ 98, it is the latest installer of the same publisher (BZ 1.4M, N, O, 98). After installation you will probably have to run it in Win XP compatibility (right click on BZ/RO icon or on main exe). Be sure to have the latest driver for your graphic card (you will have link for ATI drivers in BZ start menu after installation of BZ 98). If you still experience problems let us know...
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oldfart
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Post subject: Re: Hi, pardon the ignorance, but I really need some help. Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 8:08 pm |
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Hey Mr. Spock
Thanks for the reply.
I've done as you asked, with no luck.
The game loads, allows me to select with country, does the animations leading into the game, but when it comes to the movies it craps out. All this is done in compatibility mode running windoes XP SP2 and launched in admin mode. every once in a while I'll get to the game itself, and the whole thing is lagged down. I mean if I move the mouse to turn, it's almost as if it's moving one frame per 4 secs or summing like that, then it locks down completely.
Like I said, in windowed mode it runs fine.
Any other suggestions?
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Baldrick
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Post subject: Re: Hi, pardon the ignorance, but I really need some help. Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 8:31 pm |
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Try running in Compatibilty mode for Windows NT 4.0, worked for me.
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oldfart
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Post subject: Re: Hi, pardon the ignorance, but I really need some help. Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 9:05 pm |
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It does seem to make a difference. But heres summing wierd.
Whenwatching the movies, or anything that has movement, the picture freezes unless I'm moving the mouse, in which case it seems to 'run normally'.
make any sense?
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Kultloesungen
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Post subject: Re: Hi, pardon the ignorance, but I really need some help. Posted: December 13th, 2009, 9:33 pm |
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Joined: November 25th, 2009, 8:57 pm
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Yeah, a strange behaviour I already met in many older games. Seems to be some dependencies between some screen buffers and the input buffer...strange thing, but computers are also only human 
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