Hi guys,
Im new here and I would like to thank for all the support and anything else, thats been done here to the proud wc fan community!
And now to my problem I've been facing
I thought I would give WCP another shot at with the HighRes patch along with so many before. My system is a Vista64sp1 with a geforce8 series card and fresh new K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 4.3.4 installed. (no special video software except VLC)
After reading in a lot, I tried the following:
- Install WCP clean and fresh
- try if it runs well -> it did (at least tried out the first 3 missions, everything well, without any speed problems or anything else mentioned)
- Installed the enhancement pack, as well as the vista install_gui.exe patch
- Configured it for different resolutions -> all worked well, could play without problems
- Now I got them HighRes VOB movie files downloaded
- Went in to the game, videos played perfectly, but after the video was finished, it would go black for a second or two, and then crash back to windows with WCP being killed as a process..
- Tried it out with a different video sequence to reproduce this error (first video was a scene in the bar, second one was a briefing for the next mission) -> same thing
Sooo, I thought, ok, try the movie patch, overwrote the dll file, went back into the game, and the problem repeated itself.. I even tried getting back to the 640x480 resolution, if that would change anything.. then I also tried a complete reinstall, tried all the compatibility modes for previous windows versions and even tried deinstalling the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack and installing different versions of the ac3 and mpeg2 codecs I could find, all without any luck.
The problem stayed the same, after a high res video scene, which would play perfectly till the end, the game would crash back to windows without any error message or any windows notification sound of errors.
Im guessing, that the included dll files have compatibility problems with vista64, but I realize, that nobody else in vista seems to have similar problems.
Hope anyone here can somehow think of a solution to this. I would be very thankful at the very least
P.S: is there a way to let the prophecy.exe spit out some debug information or a log file of some sort?
EDIT: ok, after remembering, that turning subtitles "on" would use a slightly different algorithm, I tried that and it actually solved the problem! although I would like to see them vids without subtitles, but hey, Im not complaining,.. happy as it is