Armada 2 ONLINE with Windows 7 = CRASH HELP!!!!
posted on December 29th, 2009, 2:40 pm
Last edited by Guardian on December 29th, 2009, 3:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.
posted on December 29th, 2009, 4:53 pm
posted on December 29th, 2009, 7:33 pm
posted on December 29th, 2009, 7:36 pm
No problem: glad it works for you now 
posted on May 28th, 2010, 12:10 am
Hello there, I'm brand new to this forum and this is my first post =)
If I may interrupt this thread of being fully covered with dust ...
My OS is Windows Vista and back in the time when I worked and played with XP the game was fine and working well but now that I've installed it onto Vista I have several problems:
After having started in compability mode for Win98, being the administrator and having deactivated the desktop composition, the game goes through the intros as normal. But when coming to the main menu, I have a black screen with just the mouse pointer available, I can just hear the music. I can make the interfaces visible after opening the task manager and closing it again. So far so "good".
When I try to start a single player game, everything is fine (exept the screen's resolution isn't fitting well) until I want to move the cursor. The problem is that it's so slow, it needs nearly a second to be where I'm trying to point at. This is bad but it can get worse...
So I then tried to start a multiplayer game with a friend, just to check. In gamespy mode I was not able to find his hosted game and when I try to hast a game myself, Armada crashes, having experienced a problem (windows error message). This also happens when I try to go into a LAN game, after checking the game's version it crashes.
But this isn't the end of the story as I tried to eliminate the error(s) by installing several patches:
I tried out the 1.1 patch that told me it wasn't needed. Then I tried the inofficial community patches which mostly made the game crash even before the intro, none did make the game work on my Vista.
So, I don't know what to do. I just want to play against my friend and I feel like having tried everything, even the resolution of 640x480, no change :-(
I would be so glad if anyone has worked his way through my long post and knows how to proceed
Thanx in advance!
Malte
If I may interrupt this thread of being fully covered with dust ...
My OS is Windows Vista and back in the time when I worked and played with XP the game was fine and working well but now that I've installed it onto Vista I have several problems:
After having started in compability mode for Win98, being the administrator and having deactivated the desktop composition, the game goes through the intros as normal. But when coming to the main menu, I have a black screen with just the mouse pointer available, I can just hear the music. I can make the interfaces visible after opening the task manager and closing it again. So far so "good".
When I try to start a single player game, everything is fine (exept the screen's resolution isn't fitting well) until I want to move the cursor. The problem is that it's so slow, it needs nearly a second to be where I'm trying to point at. This is bad but it can get worse...
So I then tried to start a multiplayer game with a friend, just to check. In gamespy mode I was not able to find his hosted game and when I try to hast a game myself, Armada crashes, having experienced a problem (windows error message). This also happens when I try to go into a LAN game, after checking the game's version it crashes.
But this isn't the end of the story as I tried to eliminate the error(s) by installing several patches:
I tried out the 1.1 patch that told me it wasn't needed. Then I tried the inofficial community patches which mostly made the game crash even before the intro, none did make the game work on my Vista.
So, I don't know what to do. I just want to play against my friend and I feel like having tried everything, even the resolution of 640x480, no change :-(
I would be so glad if anyone has worked his way through my long post and knows how to proceed
Thanx in advance!
Malte
posted on May 30th, 2010, 1:53 pm
Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on May 30th, 2010, 2:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Hm... I had noticed your post before, but I have nothing to add sadly 
. The only thing I can suggest is to try to reinstall. Have you tried running in compatibility mode (for xp)? Hopefully somebody has some wisdom for you 
EDIT:
@ Myles 
. The only thing I can suggest is to try to reinstall. Have you tried running in compatibility mode (for xp)? Hopefully somebody has some wisdom for you EDIT:
@ Myles 
posted on May 30th, 2010, 2:04 pm
Dominus_Noctis wrote:Hm... I had noticed your post before, but I have nothing to add sadly
this was fixed for thechiller in another thread:
Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - ST Armada 2 with WIN Vista
posted on May 30th, 2010, 2:07 pm
Yeah, just saw that right after . Now I can't delete my post though, cuz you responded 
. Now I can't delete my post though, cuz you responded posted on May 30th, 2010, 2:13 pm
do a strike through
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