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SandslashXBro · May 15th, 2002

Can anyone help me? I've experienced 2 games with this problem. The first was Parkan : Iron *something*. The second had just happened, with Grandia 2. The problem is: after I open the application that runs the games, they closed. Just closed, like that. With Parkan, the application just opened about 2 seconds, then closed. With Grandia 2, the UbiSoft logo was shown, then it closed.
I HAVE been able to play them, though, for a while. But then suddenly I can't, and this problem keeps happening. This happened with both games.
Anybody can tell me why?
Thanks a bunch!

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Strider · May 15th, 2002

hmm... try downloading some new video or sound drivers to see if they are of any help... if theyre for the pc that means they also should have some downloadable patches which you could try to dl.

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SandslashXBro · May 15th, 2002

BTW, anyone know where I can get Soul Calibur's Excel complete movelist? and I tried d/ling the latest drivers for my NVidia GeForce, and my built-in Sound Card (Intel) doesn't have any problems. Anything else?

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**Kane** · May 15th, 2002

The movelist for Soul Calibur should be on www.gamefaqs.com

When I got probs like that I re-installed, although I would suggest using that as a last resort.

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REi_FoX · May 15th, 2002

last resort what do you mean??

format his hard drive??

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REi_FoX · May 15th, 2002

that could be painful...

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May 15th, 2002

rei_fox, not reformatting necessarily, but reinstalling windows from scratch. That means that he would have to reinstall all his wndows programs , etc. all over again.
SandslashxBro, I must agree w/Lord Kane. I think that reinstalling Windows may be your only way to resolve this. It sounds like DX may have gone corrupt on you and, if this is indeed the case, there is no other way to fix DX except to reinstall Windows and then reinstall DX. I had a problem similar to yours once and when I reinstalled Windows and DX, everything was fine again.
sincerely,
sx/amiga

G-Pitts · May 15th, 2002

The safest way is to reformat IMO. Reinstall windows will only copy the new files over the old files and preserve the registry and other system setting. If the registry setting cause the problem so you may experience the same problem again. Another way to avoid reformat is delete the windows folder and then reinstall windows.

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**Kane** · May 15th, 2002

Which is why I have a seperate Windows Partition (4Gb) so that I can re-format said drive without losing my essential data.

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**Demigod** · May 15th, 2002

Quote:

Originally posted by G-Pitts
The safest way is to reformat IMO. Reinstall windows will only copy the new files over the old files and preserve the registry and other system setting. If the registry setting cause the problem so you may experience the same problem again. Another way to avoid reformat is delete the windows folder and then reinstall windows.

That's why you delete the Windows and Program Files directory first before re-installing (Windows XP can also be uninstalled I think). Just move all the personal data to other folders and wipe out Windows. It'll be like it never existed

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G-Pitts · May 15th, 2002

Yes, XP can be uninstalled by deleting the windows, document and setting and program files folder.

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**Demigod** · May 16th, 2002

I tried that once on a dual-boot system (deleted the WINNT directory) but the system failed to boot up. It game me an error while looking for some file in the C:\WINNT\System32 directory, which of course didn't exist. I couldn't get into my Windows ME system at all. Maybe if you write over the MBR it'll work.

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SandslashXBro · May 16th, 2002

But with the provious game, Parkan, I was using Win98, and Now I'm using WinXP to play Grandia 2. Could my DX and Windows be broken in both cases? Isn't that a bit unlikely?
Any other solutions, anyone?

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SandslashXBro · May 17th, 2002

Besides, I don't have any problems with any other programs, just these 2. RA2, for example, works perfect for me.

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Eface · May 17th, 2002

I got similar problems too, and dx can be removed using dxbuster(search on google) and windows can be reinstalled easy(98se that is).

I think using the detonator 23.11 drivers makes sure it doesn't happen.

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SandslashXBro · May 17th, 2002

NOW my emulation stuff (VBA, ePSXe, and ZSNES) plays terribly too, slow, and skips. I can only play PC games like Red Alert and Star Craft now!

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REi_FoX · May 17th, 2002

anyone who can tell me how to unistall winME??? XP is only to delete the windows folder

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neversurrender · May 17th, 2002

try the patch for the game if there is any.also check the site of the game.

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G-Pitts · May 17th, 2002

Quote:

Originally posted by rei_fox
anyone who can tell me how to unistall winME??? XP is only to delete the windows folder

Just delete the windows folder.
BTW, XP is a bit difficult to uninstalled IMO.

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<Id> · May 18th, 2002

Are there any messages when the program shuts down?

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May 15th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
SandslashXBro The Shadow Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Melbourne Posts: 154	PC Games Can anyone help me? I've experienced 2 games with this problem. The first was Parkan : Iron something. The second had just happened, with Grandia 2. The problem is: after I open the application that runs the games, they closed. Just closed, like that. With Parkan, the application just opened about 2 seconds, then closed. With Grandia 2, the UbiSoft logo was shown, then it closed. I HAVE been able to play them, though, for a while. But then suddenly I can't, and this problem keeps happening. This happened with both games. Anybody can tell me why? Thanks a bunch! __________________ ATI Radeon 9600 256MB Athlon XP 3000+ 1024 MB DDR RAM Pete's OpenGL GPU Eternal SPU ePSXe CDR ASPI core SCPH1001 Debian

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May 15th, 2002	#2 (permalink)
Strider Living Paradigm Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 10,225	hmm... try downloading some new video or sound drivers to see if they are of any help... if theyre for the pc that means they also should have some downloadable patches which you could try to dl. sincerely, Strider __________________ My Deviant Art

May 15th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
SandslashXBro The Shadow Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Melbourne Posts: 154	BTW, anyone know where I can get Soul Calibur's Excel complete movelist? and I tried d/ling the latest drivers for my NVidia GeForce, and my built-in Sound Card (Intel) doesn't have any problems. Anything else? __________________ ATI Radeon 9600 256MB Athlon XP 3000+ 1024 MB DDR RAM Pete's OpenGL GPU Eternal SPU ePSXe CDR ASPI core SCPH1001 Debian

May 15th, 2002	#4 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,305	The movelist for Soul Calibur should be on www.gamefaqs.com When I got probs like that I re-installed, although I would suggest using that as a last resort. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 15th, 2002	#5 (permalink)
REi_FoX ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Fantasy ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 3,649	last resort what do you mean?? format his hard drive?? __________________ FoR PiNoYs WhO WanTs To BuY CheAp ParTs CliCk Here also Here Processor - Intel Quad 2 Quad q6600 G0 Stepping [Stock Settings] Memory - 2GB Team Elite 800mhz Graphics Card - Palit Daytone Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB Mobo - Abit IP-35-E OS - Dual Boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Ubuntu Linux Pad - PS1 and PS2 > USB Adapter 3DMark05 Score - 35082

May 15th, 2002	#6 (permalink)
REi_FoX ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Fantasy ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 3,649	that could be painful... __________________ FoR PiNoYs WhO WanTs To BuY CheAp ParTs CliCk Here also Here Processor - Intel Quad 2 Quad q6600 G0 Stepping [Stock Settings] Memory - 2GB Team Elite 800mhz Graphics Card - Palit Daytone Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB Mobo - Abit IP-35-E OS - Dual Boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Ubuntu Linux Pad - PS1 and PS2 > USB Adapter 3DMark05 Score - 35082

May 15th, 2002	#7 (permalink)
sxamiga Guest Posts: n/a	rei_fox, not reformatting necessarily, but reinstalling windows from scratch. That means that he would have to reinstall all his wndows programs , etc. all over again. SandslashxBro, I must agree w/Lord Kane. I think that reinstalling Windows may be your only way to resolve this. It sounds like DX may have gone corrupt on you and, if this is indeed the case, there is no other way to fix DX except to reinstall Windows and then reinstall DX. I had a problem similar to yours once and when I reinstalled Windows and DX, everything was fine again. sincerely, sx/amiga

May 15th, 2002	#8 (permalink)
G-Pitts Whats Up Doc! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Land Below The Wind, Malaysia Posts: 1,232	The safest way is to reformat IMO. Reinstall windows will only copy the new files over the old files and preserve the registry and other system setting. If the registry setting cause the problem so you may experience the same problem again. Another way to avoid reformat is delete the windows folder and then reinstall windows. __________________ Kar-T-Ney + AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (2.25 ghz) + 4096 MB DDR2 + Geforce 7600GT 256 MB DDR3 + Realtek HD Audio + WinXP Pro SP2

May 15th, 2002	#9 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,305	Which is why I have a seperate Windows Partition (4Gb) so that I can re-format said drive without losing my essential data. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

May 15th, 2002	#11 (permalink)
G-Pitts Whats Up Doc! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Land Below The Wind, Malaysia Posts: 1,232	Yes, XP can be uninstalled by deleting the windows, document and setting and program files folder. __________________ Kar-T-Ney + AMD Athlon64 X2 3600+ (2.25 ghz) + 4096 MB DDR2 + Geforce 7600GT 256 MB DDR3 + Realtek HD Audio + WinXP Pro SP2

May 16th, 2002	#12 (permalink)
Demigod これはバタスです Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 5,872	I tried that once on a dual-boot system (deleted the WINNT directory) but the system failed to boot up. It game me an error while looking for some file in the C:\WINNT\System32 directory, which of course didn't exist. I couldn't get into my Windows ME system at all. Maybe if you write over the MBR it'll work. __________________ CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Mobo: Intel DX48BT2 Memory: 8192 MB PC10600 DDR3 Videocard: PNY Geforce 9800 GX2 Soundcard: On-board SigmaTel High Definition Audio Hard drive: 1 TB Seagate & 1 TB Hitachi Optical drive: LG GGW-H20L (2x BD-R DL) PSU: Nexus 1000 Watt OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)

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SandslashXBro The Shadow Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Melbourne Posts: 154	But with the provious game, Parkan, I was using Win98, and Now I'm using WinXP to play Grandia 2. Could my DX and Windows be broken in both cases? Isn't that a bit unlikely? Any other solutions, anyone? __________________ ATI Radeon 9600 256MB Athlon XP 3000+ 1024 MB DDR RAM Pete's OpenGL GPU Eternal SPU ePSXe CDR ASPI core SCPH1001 Debian

May 17th, 2002	#14 (permalink)
SandslashXBro The Shadow Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Melbourne Posts: 154	Besides, I don't have any problems with any other programs, just these 2. RA2, for example, works perfect for me. __________________ ATI Radeon 9600 256MB Athlon XP 3000+ 1024 MB DDR RAM Pete's OpenGL GPU Eternal SPU ePSXe CDR ASPI core SCPH1001 Debian

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Eface The ChinaDude!!! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: In my room, with my computer. hey, i saw at another forum that you could dump a lot of info here. Can i do that here too? Yes, i see i can do that. LOL, i love this, how much can i talk more here? STILL MORE? Oh this is so much fun but here it ends. Posts: 3,918	I got similar problems too, and dx can be removed using dxbuster(search on google) and windows can be reinstalled easy(98se that is). I think using the detonator 23.11 drivers makes sure it doesn't happen. __________________ "Always fighting for your believes..." "...With fighting, my belief began" --------------------------------- "Like... WTF are you doing with that chair?" "What does it look like, of course i'm going to use it to fly!" My homepage where my drawings are for ur pleasure! really really NOT updated

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SandslashXBro The Shadow Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Melbourne Posts: 154	NOW my emulation stuff (VBA, ePSXe, and ZSNES) plays terribly too, slow, and skips. I can only play PC games like Red Alert and Star Craft now! __________________ ATI Radeon 9600 256MB Athlon XP 3000+ 1024 MB DDR RAM Pete's OpenGL GPU Eternal SPU ePSXe CDR ASPI core SCPH1001 Debian

May 17th, 2002	#17 (permalink)
REi_FoX ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Fantasy ¡¾¡¾¡¾¡ Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 3,649	anyone who can tell me how to unistall winME??? XP is only to delete the windows folder __________________ FoR PiNoYs WhO WanTs To BuY CheAp ParTs CliCk Here also Here Processor - Intel Quad 2 Quad q6600 G0 Stepping [Stock Settings] Memory - 2GB Team Elite 800mhz Graphics Card - Palit Daytone Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB Mobo - Abit IP-35-E OS - Dual Boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Ubuntu Linux Pad - PS1 and PS2 > USB Adapter 3DMark05 Score - 35082

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neversurrender Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: pakistan Posts: 301	try the patch for the game if there is any.also check the site of the game. __________________ silence is golden Amd athlon xp 2700+,256mb ddr 2700 ram,geforce4 mx440 64mb,Gigabyte 7V via kt400 chipset,samsung 52x cdrom,win98 se.

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<Id> Grahf's Second Advent Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Your Mind Posts: 401	Are there any messages when the program shuts down? __________________ Id:"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... take it back!" (Xenogears)