So.. So I aquired "The Movies" slightly used from my good friend the internet.
But I know it's supposed to work because I gave it to OJB when I couldn't figure it out and it ran fine on his machine.
So here's what it does.
It loads up fine at first, I see the realtime-rendered Lionhead studios logo, ok. Then, the screen goes black and never comes back. However, I can hear the pre-rendered Activison logo movie playing, then silence while the game loads, then the music of the title screen. All while the screen is still black. I have to alt+F4 out at this point :<
Here's what I've tried:
-Updated video card drivers
-Re-ran the windows media player series 9 codecs package
-Went looking for a config file for the game to make it start in windowed mode and failed to find it
-Uninstalled all my other codecs
-Waited for 5 minutes at the blackness for something to show up
-Downloaded a different distribution of it
-Uninstalled and reinstalled with new distro
-Tried windowed mode after figuring it out
-Tried changing all of the registry settings for the game to different values
-Tried disabling 2nd monitor
Anyway, the fact that it fucks up when the Activision
WMV plays would leave me to believe that something's wrong with my codecs. I can play the activision movie just fine by itself by opening the appropriate file in the data\intros folder of the game.
Thoughts? I'd really like to try this one out.
By the by, a pre-emptive 'fuck you' to people who go 'Your problem is that you downloaded it
Go buy a copy
' I have $1.34 in my back account, you can suck my wing-wang until the sun sets. Further, I know it works on OJB's computer, so the retail copy would most likely also give me the same problem. GOOD DAY.
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