windows 2000 help!!!

[waffy]

I can download the program, but whenever I turn it on, the program freezes and I have to end it with the task manager.


Can anyone help???

[Z-Man]

Maybe, but we'll have to ask you to answer some questions first. The game is built and tested on Windows 2000, so the OS alone can't be the problem.

What version of the game do you try to run?

Did it lock up immediately on the first start or did it work for a while and only locks up now?

What graphics card and driver version do you have?

What sound card and driver version do you have?

What is your desktop resolution and color depth?

[waffy]

In reply:

The version I am trying to run is 2.8.1,

I have never been able to start the program, just managed to get a black screen,

My video card is an NVidia Vanta, and the driver version is 2.1.8.5,

My sound card is a SoundMAX integrated digital audio and the driver version is 5.12.1.3029,

My color depth is 32 bit and my screen resolution is 1024 x 768 pixels.

Thanks

[Z-Man]

My video card is an NVidia Vanta, and the driver version is 2.1.8.5

I never heard of that model, so I had to look it up NVidia says it's based on TNT design. The lowest model I've seen AA run on is a TNT2, but it did work with a VooDoo 1, so I suppose a plain TNT would also work.
A possibility is that the game would run, but only painfully slow. I get that sometimes, I have to wait half a minute for the first screen to show up. For you, the reason may be that we try to initialize the graphics mode to match your desktop color depth, and the card may be too weak to handle 32 bit color depth. So you could try:

Set your desktop color depth to 16 bit and start the game again. If it works, go to the menu "System Setup/Display Settings/Screen Mode" and set Color Depth and Z Buffer Depth both to 16 bit. Then you should be able to return to 32 bit color depth on your desktop and the game should continue to run.

[waffy]

I tried your suggestion and it doesn't seem to help at all. The game still shows up as Not Responding in the task manager every time I start it.

[waffy]

Just for fun I decided to try it in 256 colors. A tiny window showed up with the game in it, but I could barely read anything on the screen. I finally turned on full screen, and then the program froze again.

[Z-Man]

Ok, if it did run once in ugly mode, maybe we can get it to run completely. You'll need to locate a file, it's name is user.cfg, and it's supposed to sit where Windows keeps your user's data files (C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Appiclation Data\Armagetron or something similar).

I'd like a copy of that file; please compress it and attach it here.

Then, ppen it in a text editor and append the lines

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                 ALPHA_BLEND 0
     ARMAGETRON_WINDOWSIZE_H 200
     ARMAGETRON_WINDOWSIZE_W 320
                  COLORDEPTH 0
                      DITHER 0
                FLOOR_DETAIL 1
                FLOOR_MIRROR 0
                  FULLSCREEN 0
                GAME_TIMEOUT 10
                   GAME_TYPE 1
                    HIGH_RIM 0
              INFINITY_PLANE 0
              LINE_ANTIALIAS -1
                   LOWER_SKY 0
               PERSP_CORRECT -1
              SMOOTH_SHADING 1
                      SPARKS 0
                   SWAP_MODE 2
                 TEXTURES_HI 0
              TEXTURE_MODE_0 -1
              TEXTURE_MODE_1 -1
              TEXTURE_MODE_2 9984
              TEXTURE_MODE_3 9984
                   UPPER_SKY 0
            USE_DISPLAYLISTS 0
               VIEWPORT_CONF 0
                      ZDEPTH 0
                      ZTRICK 0

Then try again, best in 16 bit desktop color depth. It should run in a tiny window, but you should be able to read enough to make your way to the screen settings (as in the last post) and, step by step, increase the resolution.

[microbus]

Just as a note, if you run a program like Webroot's Spysweeper, it
can sometimes block the game, thinking it's spyware or something.
So disable it, if you have it.
And for trouble-shooting, make sure you let Arma install into its
default directory.