Nomad Terror
Rear Admiral
This is how I managed to get Standoff working on my Windows 2000 SP4 rig. Your mileage may vary.
1. Make sure you are running SP4 with the latest version of everything (drivers and directx).
2. If you have not yet, run this command in start > run: regsvr32 %systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll
3. Create a shortcut to standoff.exe (*not* to the launcher)
4. Bring up the shortcut's properties (right-click menu) and enable Windows 95 compatibility mode (which will now be enabled from the above step)
5. Run dxdiag in start > run, go to the Sound tab, and completely disable audio hardware acceleration (slider all the way to the left)
6. Run the game *using the shortcut to standoff.exe*. Use the launcher only to bring up the options menu.
The game will still randomly crash for me, but in my experience it is now reduce to one crash every couple of hours as opposed to every few minutes.
If you have a Windows 2000 machine, please try these steps out and let me know here how it works out for you.
If you have any other suggestions, feel free to post them here as well.
1. Make sure you are running SP4 with the latest version of everything (drivers and directx).
2. If you have not yet, run this command in start > run: regsvr32 %systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll
3. Create a shortcut to standoff.exe (*not* to the launcher)
4. Bring up the shortcut's properties (right-click menu) and enable Windows 95 compatibility mode (which will now be enabled from the above step)
5. Run dxdiag in start > run, go to the Sound tab, and completely disable audio hardware acceleration (slider all the way to the left)
6. Run the game *using the shortcut to standoff.exe*. Use the launcher only to bring up the options menu.
The game will still randomly crash for me, but in my experience it is now reduce to one crash every couple of hours as opposed to every few minutes.
If you have a Windows 2000 machine, please try these steps out and let me know here how it works out for you.
If you have any other suggestions, feel free to post them here as well.