Settlers 2 - Can't run
Keith Sedgwick
Help!
Nothing is worse than ordering a game and waiting weeks to get it, and
then not be able to run it when it comes. :-(
I've got a Gateway2000 P5-100
Win95
Win95 Plus
STB video board
8M Ram
100M left on my HD
Ensoniq Sound Card
I need help! It seemed to install OK. I got the message that it
successfully installed the game and "have fun playing Settlers II."
I started the game and it seemed to run OK. It goes through the opening
sequence and then starts to load the game.
It put me into a DOS window and I get some messages about running in 8M
mode and finding my mouse, etc. etc. Then the screen goes dark and I
can see a lighter area, what looked to be about the 2/3 of the screen,
right in the middle of the viewing area. I looked at my hard disk
light and it was on. It looked like the program was accessing the HD,
trying to load something. I wait...wait...wait... and nothing. The HD
disk light never goes off. I think I can hear some kind of tone coming
from my speakers, it is real faint and I can bearly hear it. Nothing
ever happens. The computer is locked up and I can't do a warm reboot,
can't get back to Win95, can't do a control-alt-del. Can't do a
alt-tab, nothing! Finally I get frustrated and hit the reset button.
I read the information on the VESB(sp) video driver and ran the install
program off the CD. It give you several options as far as utilities for
windows or DOS and some other ones that I can't remember.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the game and the supplied video driver
several times using different options and directories. Nothing!
Has anyone had this problem? I reinstalled it many times doing
different things but could never the game to start. It hangs up after
the opening sequence. HELP!!!!
I would have tried Bluebyte's tech line but it has some funny hours like
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. central time. Some of us have to work and have
a hard time calling them at those hours.
Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Keith
ke...@intaud.usu.edu - work
keit...@cc.usu.edu - home
HTS
In article <32245D...@cc.usu.edu>, keit...@cc.usu.edu says...
> Help!
>
> Nothing is worse than ordering a game and waiting weeks to get it, and
> then not be able to run it when it comes. :-(
>
> I've got a Gateway2000 P5-100
> Win95
> Win95 Plus
> STB video board
> 8M Ram
> 100M left on my HD
> Ensoniq Sound Card
I've also had some problems running this game. Try one of
the following:
1. Run the file nosound.bat in the settler2 directory. If this works,
try editing this file and take out the "quiet" parameter to get the
sound back.
2. Run the s2.exe file directly
You will probably get sound but no music from the CD. This is my
situation. Also, it's better to try with plain DOS if possible.
The game is way slower with Win95.
If anyone knows haw to get around the message about not finding
the CD when running settler2.exe, please let me know.
Håkon
--
Backward slashes are for backward operating systems!
If God had wanted us to think for ourselves, he'd have given us brains
Travis Hayes
Keith Sedgwick <keit...@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>Help!
>Nothing is worse than ordering a game and waiting weeks to get it, and
>then not be able to run it when it comes. :-(
>I've got a Gateway2000 P5-100
>Win95
>Win95 Plus
>STB video board
>8M Ram
>100M left on my HD
>Ensoniq Sound Card
This could be the problem right there.....
If you're running win95, and you only have 100M, running a game like
Settlers 2 may cause a problem. Especially if you have other programs
running as well.
Have you tried running this in MS DOS mode?
Keith Sedgwick
Travis Hayes wrote:
>
> Keith Sedgwick <keit...@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>
> >Help!
>
> >Nothing is worse than ordering a game and waiting weeks to get it, and
> >then not be able to run it when it comes. :-(
>
> >I've got a Gateway2000 P5-100
> >Win95
> >Win95 Plus
> >STB video board
> >8M Ram
> >100M left on my HD
> >Ensoniq Sound Card
>
> This could be the problem right there.....
>
> If you're running win95, and you only have 100M, running a game like
> Settlers 2 may cause a problem. Especially if you have other programs
> running as well.
>
> Have you tried running this in MS DOS mode?
Hi Travis:
Yea!! I got it to work. Thanks Travis, for the help. My problem was
my video drivers. I checked Gatway's FTP site for new drivers for my
video card, downloaded them, installed them, and it works.
I get a lot of video garbage (static) on the monitor when I start and
end the game, but it only lasts for a few seconds and then it clears
up. I can live with that. After it loads it runs just fine.
I'm running it in Win95. In Win95, I just click on start.bat and let it
RIP... Thanks to all of you fine people for the help.
Keith
keit...@cc.usu.edu
i.mcewan
Nothing is worse than ordering a game and waiting weeks to get it, and
then not be able to run it when it comes. :-(
I've got a Gateway2000 P5-100
Win95
Win95 Plus
STB video board
8M Ram
100M left on my HD
Ensoniq Sound Card
I need help! It seemed to install OK. I got the message that it
I think that you probably have a problem with the amount of memory on your machine.
I tried running Settlers II with 8 meg of ram, but it would only work in low resolution with no sound due to a lack of memory. I now have 12 meg of ram and the program only just works in high resolution. Try running the nosound program and see if it works.
Cheers
Iain.
Kjetil Svendsberget
I have a similiar problem.
My system is:
Amitrends Pentium card.
Intel P-133
Matrox Mill. video card. (Matrox Storm 2MB)
Soundblaster 16 sound card
48 MB of RAM
using Qemm 7.01, and Windows 4.1 (DOS for running the game)
Goldstar 15'' monitor
This configuration refuse to run in the 2 top graphic resolution modes.
That's the 800x600 and then 1024x768 ones. I've mailed Blue Byte, and
they told me: "This is a common problem with the Matrox card, get their
newest bios update from their ftp cite." (A little funny i needed a new
bios update, since the card was bought 2 weeks ago). Well anyway i did,
as was told, and it didn't work. Everything was exeacty the same. If
i try to run in 800x600 the games starts in a 'garbled' mode. (Like you
are watching a coded tv-channel). After a while, the machine crashes.
If i try 1024x768 the machine crashes after a while after the mission
intro screen pops out.
I have even tried to get the settlers patch, but that just makes it more
unstable. Even Sci-tech's newest UNIVBE driver, fails to work. When i use
this, the game refuse to load, telling me : no-such-graphic-mode.
When i use Matrox's vesa driver, the game produces a lot smaller visual
screen, with 2 black borders! (one on each side)
(infact other games does this to!!!..hmm i think it is games who run in
native 640x480 ?)
Anyone else have problem with Matrox & Settlers2, so please let me know!!!
Kjetil
Carl Eisen
On 3 Sep 1996 15:28:12 +0200, kjet...@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil
Svendsberget) wrote:
I have nearly an identical problem. I have a Gateway P5-166XL with a
Matrox Millenium MGA card. I get the Blue Byte startup screen, press
ESC to get to the game, and my pc reboots every time. I called Blue
Byte and they told me to add the phrase "NOEMS" at the end of the
device=emm386.exe line in config.sys and make a boot disk. I tried all
that and it still doesn't help.
If I find out how to fix this I'll let you know. Please do the same if
you hear anything.
Good luck
Carl E.
tom
cei...@ids2.idsonline.com (Carl Eisen) wrote:
>Good luck
>Carl E.
I have a milinium card (2 meg) and have the same problem in 800*600,
while 1024 runs nicely. (wish that 800 worked, 1024 is too small)
tom