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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Games / March 2007S.T.A.L.K.E.R fails to run
I got STALKER yesterday and it installed on my system with no problems but as soon as I try and run the game all I get is a blank screen and the THQ logo sounds, then after a few seconds I just get kicked back into Vista, here are my full system specs AMD Athlon 64bit X2 4800+ 2GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT 256MB GPU (forceware version 100.65) 300GB HDD with 16MB cache Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit I would be very grateful for any help in trying to run the game Thank you It's the nVidia card most likely. Their drivers right now are pure garbage :( >I got STALKER yesterday and it installed on my system with no problems but >as [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thank you I finally got STALKER to run :-) it ended up being the drivers from NVIDIA I tried running the game as admin and turning off UAC but none of them worked so I had to uninstall the 100.65 drivers and then install the old 97.46 drivers and as soon as I did that the game started to run :-) I don't understand why the game doesn't run with the new drivers, it just seems a little silly that to get a game to work you have to install a 3 to 4 month old driver Thank you all for your help :-) K86 OBTW, they just relased a patch for stalker. Hopefully you didn't play very much, as it kills all saved games. I hate those kind of patches >I finally got STALKER to run :-) it ended up being the drivers from NVIDIA > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Thank you all for your help :-) > K86 >I got STALKER yesterday and it installed on my system with no problems but as > soon as I try and run the game all I get is a blank screen and the THQ logo [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thank you Not sure if this is the problem, but found this on NVIDIA's site. Driver Installation Hints a.. "Download Accelerator" utilities should be disabled when downloading any drivers. b.. Do not run virus protection software in the background while installing the drivers. This prevents the driver from configuring itself properly. c.. Before installing new drivers make sure you uninstall all NVIDIA display drivers from the Windows Control Panel. Browse to the Start Menu > Windows Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs and search for "NVIDIA Windows Display Drivers" or "NVIDIA Display Drivers" and select remove. Try here: http://www.vistareadygames.com/showthread.php?t=11 BoXy www.VistaReadyGames.com Sounds like the video isn't playing right. I had some weirdness like that when trying to play FarCry 64. FC32 ran fine, but the newer FC64 used different videos and Vista couldn't load the Codecs for them, so I just got a blank screen that caused me grief, since the videos appeared to hang. In my case, I just found the videos, renamed them, so they wouldn't play and everything worked fine. I don't have Stalker yet, so I can't tell you were to find the videos >I got STALKER yesterday and it installed on my system with no problems but >as [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thank you Dale White;245034 Wrote: > Sounds like the video isn't playing right. I had some weirdness like > that [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > > > Thank you i had the same problem for nfs carbon. i also renamed the movies and then it worked (i thought, it would have been a codecs-problem). i was using untill last week the vista-included microsoft-driver for my gf fx5500 at vista x64. in recently installed the 9.6.8.5 forceware (as the 100 and 101-drivers do NOT support my FX5500 anymore!?!) and stalker works for me. (including videos). i don't think a crashing game may have to do something with UAC (i turned it off, logical). The only thing for vista forceware is, that my gfx is less configurable as it was in xp.  Signaturesatani Oh contraire my good friend, here is what I get if I run Stalker with the UAC On, but don't tell it to run as administrator when it starts. http://images.filecloud.com/400076/stalker_error.jpg This might be the first game I've tried that would crash on start for not running as administrator. Of course, I normally have the UAC off, So it's hard to catch these problems. I sometimes forget to test under my main account and my test account to make sure it doesn't need anything speical. > Dale White;245034 Wrote: >> Sounds like the video isn't playing right. I had some weirdness like [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > thing for vista forceware is, that my gfx is less configurable as it > was in xp. Your not alone - I have an almost identical spec, although I run 64bit vista and have a GTX i get the same symptoms Toby >I got STALKER yesterday and it installed on my system with no problems but >as [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thank you Well, In about 2 days, I'll have my copy of Stalker and if it works, I'm going to say "neener neener boo boo" to you Nvidia owners, As I got the same specs, except for an ATI X1900XTX. Have you tried turning off the UAC ? Wouldn't think it would matter, but it might be hard headed > Your not alone - I have an almost identical spec, although I run 64bit > vista and have a GTX i get the same symptoms [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> >> Thank you When I try to run under Vista 64, I get a nice crash screen from the game. It seems with the UAC turned on, you have to run the game as Administrator. Out side of that the game is running fine for me, Fine being a relative term, since the forums seem to imply the game is a bit buggy and official Vista support won't be there until the first patch is released. On a side note, I found Vista doesn't have as much head bobbing as XP. Unfortunately for me, It's making me fairly dizzy to play the game with head bobbing. This might be the first game I've seen in a while that doesn't have a check box to turn it off > Your not alone - I have an almost identical spec, although I run 64bit > vista and have a GTX i get the same symptoms [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> >> Thank you Is it possible that the game is starting up and then trying to check for updates? I've had to run a couple of games I've installed as administrator to get them to work. Of course I don't have this particular game so I'm just guessing. >I got STALKER yesterday and it installed on my system with no problems but >as [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thank you Similar system Pentium IV 3ghz HT (32bit 2-3 years old) 2gb DDr2 NVDIA 7800 GTx 256mb latest driver whatever sata drives. whatever casche dosent matter doh Ultimate editition. and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Runs fine Girlfriend comp. Pentium IV 3ghz HT...... . Same system specs Except she runs on a Home premium and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Runs fine.. So its not the Nvidia card atleast that does it.. Go nvidea.. Btw im holding out on somehting better than 8800 before upgraing, to dx 10.. hobeing for something like 9800 gtx. with atleast 512. From Nvidia ofc. cheers. Martin.. > AMD Athlon 64bit X2 4800+ > 2GB RAM [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Thank you |
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