Recent content by AIM-9X

I downloaded and installed the GNU Essentials Codec Pack, which allowed me to successfully play a DVD in Windows Media Player 11 -- solved all crashes, and video works excellent (VLC media player does not install a compatible Windows Media codec -- at least not for WMP 11). Palette problem...

Ok -- the culprit seems to in fact be the DVD decoder software. I was using WinDVD 4. I chucked that installation and tried PowerDVD 3 (very early version), which worked without crashing the game, but had awful image quality and screwed up the in-game color palette. Which is the best decoder...

Applying Windows 9x compatibility didn't really help either. The videos that weren't playing before were now playing, but I couldn't key through the video sequences (the game was ignoring any keyboard input to skip past the videos) unless I pressed the window key to temporarily get to the...

I'm also having serious problems getting this to work in Windows XP 32-bit SP3. I downloaded the 4 VOB .zip packs, and then I installed the CD version of the game using the most recent WC4CDtoDVD.exe. Next, I unpacked all four of the .zip files into c:\wc4\vob. Everything appeared to work...