Normal install, 2 patches, no cd crack. Tutorial worked fine, but when it came time to hit "New Game"- it crashed & went back to my desktop screen. Wha' happened??
No dice w/ just disabling my anti-virus. Still jumping back to my desk top. From what I see in that link, it looks like I'll have to install the mod pack(?)
Fix resolution from my laptop? To what settings? (tried opening under Administrator", but I realized the account I log on with is already the administrator.. Then I tried doing it under Safe Mode, but the game wouldn't start at all like that)
Supported widescreen resolutions for ToEE are: 1280 x 720, 1280 x 768, 1280 x 800, 1440 x 900, 1680 x 1050 Unsupported widescreen resolutions for ToEE are: 1920 x 1080, 1920 x 1200 If your laptop is set below that, it most likely is or else everything would be inhumanly small on the screen, that should be ok. For administrator, you want to go into the properties of the front end file, TFE-X.exe, go into the compatibility tab and click "run as administrator". If that still don't work, I would ask if you have any anti-virus running, because that causes problems. I cannot speak intelligently on anti-virus stuff because I don't know about them or ever use them. Gaear will have to help you past that. *edit* Actually, I just noticed that you don't have the modpack installed. I would install it and then you can still have a completely vanilla game by downloading the 5.8.1 BETA modpack.
5.8.1 (or any of our 'standard' - i.e. not new content - modpacks) is not really vanilla; it just doesn't contain the Co8 major expansions. For a closest-to-vanilla experience, get Co8 3.0.4. Please refer to the chart in this thread for details on what is in each modpack.
& that seems to be working. So it looks to me like if ever anyone has most any problem, you likely need to install the mod. But thanks! Gaeer- So it isn't totally vanilla? What're the big differences? (I'm playing mod normal)