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Troubles playing BINK video files.
I haven't had the chance to play the game, yet.
My problem is that I am unable to launch it : it freezes when it starts playing those # BINK video files with 100% CPU resources in use (and not even the smallest entry in the event viewer), and the beginning (less than 1 second) of the sound track looping for a few seconds.
I have tried everything mentioned in http://www.ina-support.com/faq/civ3_pc.asp, two cracks (one before installing the patch, the other one after (and why should I crack a game that I own?)), then I have downloaded the player at http://www.radgametools.com/, and I successfully reproduced the same problem in another context.
Now, what I find very strange is that I have played Mechwarrior2 (which uses those bink files too) on the same computer without any trouble at all.
I use an AMD750 with 256M, an NVidia GForce2MX, Creative SoundBlaster PCI512 (SB Live!), Win2KS sp2 with all the relevant hotfixes as of December the 1st, DirectX8.1, and a AOpen DVD and a Yamaha CD Writer (hence the so called "cracks").
So does anyone have any information about how to play those files on Win2K ?
Is there any command line option that would allow me to launch the game without having to see the animations, or to disable them completely ?
Season's greetings ;-)
My problem is that I am unable to launch it : it freezes when it starts playing those # BINK video files with 100% CPU resources in use (and not even the smallest entry in the event viewer), and the beginning (less than 1 second) of the sound track looping for a few seconds.
I have tried everything mentioned in http://www.ina-support.com/faq/civ3_pc.asp, two cracks (one before installing the patch, the other one after (and why should I crack a game that I own?)), then I have downloaded the player at http://www.radgametools.com/, and I successfully reproduced the same problem in another context.
Now, what I find very strange is that I have played Mechwarrior2 (which uses those bink files too) on the same computer without any trouble at all.
I use an AMD750 with 256M, an NVidia GForce2MX, Creative SoundBlaster PCI512 (SB Live!), Win2KS sp2 with all the relevant hotfixes as of December the 1st, DirectX8.1, and a AOpen DVD and a Yamaha CD Writer (hence the so called "cracks").
So does anyone have any information about how to play those files on Win2K ?
Is there any command line option that would allow me to launch the game without having to see the animations, or to disable them completely ?
Season's greetings ;-)
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