No Intro Movies Bug?

I've got another possible issue that I've been able to replicate 100%.

Again, I'm running ToEE (Jewel case/bargain bin) + Patch 1 + Patch 2 + 5.5 on Vista Home Premium SP1.

When I click the "Disable Intro" button and run the game, as soon as I get to the menu options screen, my game freezes and I need to end it in task manager (I get a "not responding" in task manager). If I leave the intro movies on, I don't have this problem. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

Re: Circle of Eight Modpack 5.5.x + CMF Bug Reports and Discussion Thread

Shiningted:

Yes, I am running as admin. Sorry I didn't mention that before. Also, I am using AVG Free Anti-virus if that helps. Thanks for the quick reply.

 

The only other thing I can think of that might be a difference between us that might affect things is that I'm on a dual core machine (e6300). If that's not it, I'm not sure what could be the problem. It's a really minor issue though and it plays fine with them enabled, but I'd hate to be the only guy out there with this.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, Gaear. I installed Rad Video Tools and still have the same problem. When the movies are enabled, I see the following in order:

Atari
Troika
Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons and Dragons loading screen and bar
ToEE Intro Movie
ToEE Menu

When disabled, I see the following:

Dungeons and Dragons loading screen and bar
ToEE Menu

The game freezes about 2 to 3 seconds after I reach the menu. Mouse freezes and the screen doesn't scroll to the "temple interior", but I still hear the cool eerie music.

 

I'm not sure then, bro. Maybe it's just my system then... Thanks for the help though.

 

During one of my attempts to install/play the new modpack, I had the same thing happen. I also had the intro movies disabled. I also have a dual-core computer.

After several frustrating and comical attempts, uninstalling, deleting and reinstalling from start to finish (I believe I had the menu freeze occur twice), I finally have a game with no problems to date (I hope). Undoubtably one or maybe two attempts and failures were due to my own ineptitude, but maybe not all of them. I'm not complaining...I really appreciate the trouble you guys have gone to...just thought after reading this thread that you might want to know that someone else had the same problem. I thought it was something I was doing wrong (and maybe it was???).

 

I've been messing around with this and I found something interesting. I disabled the movies in the frontend and then looked at the movies folder to see how Agetian does the removal and changed introcinematic.bik0 to introcinematic.blk to get it to play again and everything worked (the menu didn't freeze). Granted, I had to see the intro movie (or hit esc), but the removal of the movies before that was fine. However, as soon as I change it back to introcinematic.bik0 thereby removing it from the queue, the game would freeze 2-3 seconds into the menu screen like "normal". So, by this information, we can assume that the problem lies somewhere between the Dungeons and Dragons loading screen and the menu screen. Conversely, I did the opposite (keep the beginning "logo" movies and remove the game movie) and the menu froze which supports the above. At the very least, I don't have to see the other movies anymore.

 

Just wanted to note that I am having exactly the same problem as Marauder but I don't have a dual-core PC. I don't mind leaving the intro movie on so it's no big deal, but wanted to let everyone know that it doesn't seem to be just dual-core that have the problem. Yes, I have the same installation. I am running Vista-64, though. Maybe that's where the problem is?