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Started by OFFICER DAN , Sep 10 2006 10:05 AM

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#41 Guest_Panicxz_*

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Posted 10 January 2009 - 11:46 PM

Sorry, couldn't resisit
I'm not using VISTA, because i dont think my computer is good enough... but my friend has vista and im very impressed by what i saw, but is it not as good as people say?

Actually, Vista is really good. If you put yourself on the side of a beginner, it may be somehow confusing. If you put yourself on the side of a technician, they'll most likely say Vista have always had problems with drivers and such, that's because Vista was pretty much rushed and hardware companies (Dell...etc) didn't have the time to make the proper drivers for Vista.
But as long as performance (If you have a fairly good pc) Graphics and features, Vista's really good.

It won't replace my good XP Pro

Never!

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#42 Guest_volfirefighter23_*

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Posted 21 May 2009 - 05:06 AM

I got em3 and 4 as a pack they are both on the same disc I installed both of them and it says they installed succesfully but when i try to play the screen goes black for a second and then goes back to my desk top. Any suggestions for fixing this?

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Posted 21 May 2009 - 10:59 AM

You probably don't have a good enough video card, just check to make sure it has the latest drivers..

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#44 Guest_volfirefighter23_*

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Posted 22 May 2009 - 06:46 AM

I just bought this laptop last november, i downloaded em3 from the internet and it worked for about 2 months then quit. now with em3 i open it and it does the flash thing and then says it quit working. and how do i check the video card to see if it is the right one?

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#45 joachimnor

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Posted 22 May 2009 - 06:55 AM

If you run on vista home basic, try compability mode windows 95

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Posted 24 May 2009 - 02:52 PM

How do you operate in administer mode? My problem is when i start to run the game it immediately says the game has stopped working, yada yada yada, closes. please help!

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Posted 24 May 2009 - 03:08 PM

How do you operate in administer mode? My problem is when i start to run the game it immediately says the game has stopped working, yada yada yada, closes. please help!

When you start up your computer you can press F2 or F8 (it varies) and then you get to choose to start the computer in normal mode or in administrator mode.

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 09:15 AM

Or right click on the exe file, click properties, and check mark the box, "Run as Administrator"

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#49 joachimnor

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Posted 05 June 2009 - 08:37 AM

and also all games should work on windows vista home premium and above.... Everyone who have vista home basic will most likely get problems with alot of games.... If you have a problem with a game on home basic just put it in compability mode windows 95 and run as administrator... and to do that just right click on the source exe file (not the shortcut on your desktop) and go into the prefrences and go to the compability tab

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 09:15 AM

Getting this error...

Init Filesystem...
Registered FS device "local"
Registered FS device "base"
Registered FS device "lang"
Init UpdateChain...
Init Timer...
Init Screen...
Init Scriptscheduler...
!Graphics system: Intel Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator
GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_two_side GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture3D GL_3DFX_texture_compre
CPU speed detected: 889
Init GFX...
Init Vision...
|Vision DLL path: C:\Program Files\sixteen tons entertainment\Emergency 4\vision71.dll

|Vision™, Version PC-4, 7, 28, 0

|Loading entity plugins of directory <C:\Program Files\sixteen tons entertainment\Emergency 4\Data> ...

|List of loaded plug-ins:

|Plug-in named 'CubeMapHandle_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VisionConsoleEntity_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VisBase_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VisBaseEntity_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VisMouseCamera_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VisObject3D_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VisActionHelperEntity_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VarManager_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'BaseEntity_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VBaseCameraEntity' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'VCamEntity' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'GameEntity_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'Emitter_cl' loaded statically!

|Plug-in named 'BaseGameEntity_cl' loaded statically!

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|Registering plug-ins done !

|Initializing Vision Graphics Engine

|Detecting CPU type and features

|CPU:Pentium II/III FPU MMX ISSE 3DNow!

|Vision Core: Allocated 28 kB of memory for Polygon Chunks

|Vision Core: Allocated 9 kB of memory for Entities

|Settings renderer configuration

Initializing post processor 'PerceptionCore'
* Skipping config file
Initializing post processor 'MotionBlur'
* Skipping config file
Initializing post processor 'Nightvision'
* Skipping config file
|Initialising video driver: 0

|Setting screen mode to x:1024 / y:768 / bpp:32 / refresh:0

|Screen Mode is fullscreen, return value: -402

|Stencil buffer: 0 bit / ZBuffer: 24 bit

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Posted 24 June 2009 - 04:19 PM

Vista was pretty much rushed and hardware companies (Dell...etc) didn't have the time to make the proper drivers for Vista.

The sad part is vista been out for years now and yet they still cant make proper drivers.

It won't replace my good XP Pro Never!

Same, I love vista, but it aint going to happen. XP is too reliable and Win 7 is right around the corner so meh, not much point in upgrading now.

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Posted 30 June 2009 - 03:02 PM

another OS you can now get Emergency 4 or 911-First Responders working on is Windows Server 2008 R2 X64, since Server 2008 is basicly Windows 7 for servers this process may work on vista X64 and Windows 7 X64 as well.

Install as normal from cd or image ect.

Goto the install directory usually on X64: C:\Program Files (x86)\ and right click on the games publisher folder and to security.

Give everyone and users full permissions to the directory.

Find Em4.exe and set it to Compatibility mode "Windows XP Service Pack 2" and Run as Administrator

then start the game by launching it from Command prompt. For 911-First Responders that is

CD C:\Program Files (x86)\WizardWorks\911 - First Responders\Em4 -x9 <<the x9 switch im told launches the game and tells it to use directX9.

once the game has loaded tab out and run command prompt as Administrator.

then type taskmgr -admin, once taskmanager has loaded find Em4.exe (or somthing along those lines) in processes.

right click and set priority to High

tab back into Em4 and enjoy

not tested this on any other OS myself just 2008 R2 Enterprise X64, the game preforms fairly well a little lag on load and when there are a lot of units about. im going to test LA Mod now and post the results

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#53 Guest_FireBug_*

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Posted 30 June 2009 - 08:46 PM

i have now tested it with LA Mod and it works fine

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Posted 07 July 2009 - 08:14 PM

I've got a problem
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I'm running Vista premium 64 bit edition
My graphics drivers are updated
I've also tried it in a variety of compatabiliy modes and still no good.
Any ideas?

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#55 Guest_FireBug_*

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Posted 07 July 2009 - 09:32 PM

that looks like a graphics error which could be caused by one of two things. A game bug or an incompatible Graphics card. the latter is more likely if you have a laptop or a desktop with integrated graphics. post your systems specs and i shall try and find you an answer. :grinsevil:

p.s, now tested with the latest version of Winterberg and it takes around 5-15mins to load but it works perfectly

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Posted 07 July 2009 - 10:02 PM

*New Update*

Em1 (crashes after a mission or two, but stable) and Em2 (completely stable under windows 2000 compatability)work fine.
I've got Em4 working better by turning off all shading. The problem is that there is another issue, missing/distorted textures:
[attachment=2465:EM4.jpg]
Also the rotating 3D image in the buy menu isn't working, it just shows a white box.

As for Em3 it also suffers from a graphic distortion:
[attachment=2466:EM3_1.jpg]
If I fiddle with the shading options this goes away but everything gets darker.

Is this maybe a codec issue? or still an incompatible graphics card?

EM4 Log:[attachment=2468:logfile.txt]
EM3 Log:[attachment=2467:logfile.txt]
DX Diagnosis:[attachment=2469:DxDiag.txt]

Thanks in advance for any help.

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#57 Guest_ENG12INE_*

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Posted 16 July 2009 - 10:36 PM

I am no genius but I have a laptop that I use which has vista...I have had that problem where certain vehicles and what not will not show up and just be white...and if i'm not mistaking I would believe it's a graphics card issue...because of the fact im having the same issue with a different game but it's on a laptop, so put things together and it seems likely to be graphics card not compatible...

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#58 Guest_FireBug_*

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Posted 17 July 2009 - 07:32 PM

@ MCERT1 from just the DX Diag report it looks like a graphics problem. from what i know of laptop chipsets the intel one's are usually the worst. im also sure that somwhere in the system requirements for EM4 it says "integrated chipsets may work but are not supported" so im affraid i can't help you there. Never played EM1 through to EM3 but if they are using earlier releases of DirectX say 9.0B or 8 then windows vista will struggle to play them as alot was changed in directX from 8.0 upwards.