I've read trough the fora and tried all but emperor still won't run...

[J-cop]

Hi

I've read trough the fora and tried all theres has been posted but my emperor still wont work..

When i start the game, the screen go's black and it returnes to desktop...

I haven't got any AV programs, I tried patching and the fix, I've tried changing resolution, I've tried compatible mode for all windows and I have tried we-installing about 5 times now...

plz help me...

I've attached my dxdiag...[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[Atomic Mitten]

Looking at your DX diag, Try reducing your resolution to 16 bit instead of 32.

Also I see your sound blaster live drivers are a bit old, Creative studios now have drivers for XP.

Have you turned shadows off in the game options menu ?

I have to turn all the graphics to low, to get the game to run.

I've got a geforce4mx440agp 128 MB card.

Also how old is your bios ?(chipset bios).

There is also a Nvidia Tweak tool available from guru3d.com.

With this you can lower the agp speed to X2 or X1.

and change a few other settings of your GUI.

What exactly happens when you try to run the game ?

[Atomic Mitten]

Just thought of something else you can try, this link takes you to Aida32.hu, choose the second download on the page.

Install the program and go through the sub directories, maybe you can post the report when you've done ?

The link is http://www.aida32.hu/download

[J-cop]

When i dobbel click the.exe the screen goes black and then returns to desktop...

[Atomic Mitten]

Is your nvidia card from the firm Sparkle ??

[Nyarlathotep]

Download older drivers for your video card. (21.83 seems to work for most people with your video card).

[J-cop]

I've made the report but it's in danish....

i've fixed all you said before but it still wont work..

ill attach the dxdiag[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[J-cop]

No it's from asus agp 7700 g-force 2 GTS PRo 64mb

[Nyarlathotep]

Did you also try older drivers ?

[Atomic Mitten]

Your still on 32 bit ! try it on 16 bit.

[Atomic Mitten]

28,32 is the correct driver version for win xp.

[Atomic Mitten]

Are you running a dual monitor setup, or have you a laptop.

[J-cop]

I tried it on 16-bit.... didn't work

Im currently using nvidia's 45.23 detonator drivers...

I have found 21.83 and is about to try them out...

But wont these old drivers have an effekt on my newer games?

[J-cop]

I tried the 21.83 and 28.32 drivers and it STIL DIDN'T work....

OMG

[Nyarlathotep]

Atomic, you stated that you might had found a problem with DirectX 9 and EBFD. If so, you might want to guide J-cop through ;)

[Atomic Mitten]

lol. I'm still having weird things happen with my agp card.

But I'll try !

Try re-installing Emp, but with the normal installation, not the fix one.

I installed mine without the fix, used windows compatability program to set it to run as if on win98.

This worked for me.

Maybe Doc can remember how to put graphic acceleration to full in winxp.

I can't remember how to do it.lol

Did you download the Tweak utility for nvidia from the guru3d.com web site ?

If you did you can set the agp rate to 1X to do this you must, put a tick in the little box to the left of the slider where it says 1X, 2X, 4X.

[Atomic Mitten]

P.s. did you say that you have Norton Anti-virus or firewall running on your PC ?

If so I had nothing but trouble with it.

I now use Mcaffee firewall 4.0. without any probs.

[J-cop]

What is that tweak called?

No im notusing any form of anti-virus!

[Atomic Mitten]

Nvidia tweak utility.If you go on the guru3d website it's listed on the left side of the page !

[J-cop]

I tried it but still no luck =(

[Atomic Mitten]

What settings did you change with the tweak utility ?

Try putting a tick in the box, enable Side Band Addressing and agp to 1X.

Ignore the warning, it only applies to win98 and me users.Try this program it's free:

http://www.aida32.hu/downloads

When you run this program click on motherboard/chipset,can you then copy and paste the result in this thread, or just type it in if you can't do the pasting stuff.

By result I mean what it says in relation to AGP,fastwrite

and so on.

[Atomic Mitten]

Doc solved my card problems.

Visit this site and download the Omega drivers for Nvidia card, for whichever drivers you have installed at the moment.

the link is http://www.omegacorner.com

I just installed them ! and wow my pc has never been so stable.When you install you have an option to install quality or performance modded drivers.I chose the quality one.

By the way I just played Emp, with everything on high !

first time i've ever managed that with emp. ;D

[J-cop]

I tried the drivers but my game still wont run!

[Atomic Mitten]

I don't know what else to suggest.Could you maybe post the Aida32 report in the thread ?

[J-cop]

sure but is it in danish :)[attachment archived by Gobalopper]