If it wasn't for bad luck.........

[killinator]

Ok. I've tried everything I can think of. Dune will not play. It gives me the very first little Dune loading screen and then nothing. No processes for Dune are running or any thing. Its like I never even tried to start it.

Norton Anti-virus is shut down. Nothing.

dxdiag says everything is fine. Nothing.

New drivers installed. Nothing.

Old video drivers installed. Nothing

Even tried the Omega drivers. Nothing

Uninstalled and reinstalled (many times) Nothing.

Zone alarm shut down. Nothing.

Made it run in compatability mode for all OS's. Nothing

One thing that might be an Issue (and even if it does not pertain to this, I'm still curious as to what its all about)- Whenever I start my comp, I get this message-

ACG Channel Client Status

An error has occured while running this application

Details-An unknown error has occured in the system layer of the display module.

File: .systemmain.c

Line: 45

Value: -650

I hit "ok" and it finishs booting just fine.

Can anyone help???? (btw, Dune has ran just fine on this pc b4)

[GhostHunter]

Which Dune? Emperor or Dune2000?

Attach your dxdiag.

[Andrew]

I take it this game you are reffering to is Emperor: Battle for Dune?

EDIT - lol, we think similiar ::)

[Atomic Mitten]

Sounds like your monitor drivers are corrupt.Have you tried re-installing them ?

[killinator]

I thought I did attach the dxdiag. Here it is. And I am talking about Emperor.[attachment archived by Gobalopper]

[Nyarlathotep]

Norton Anti-virus is shut down. Nothing.

Try uninstalling it. If it then works, try the fix posted in the sticky EBFD and NAV thread..

[killinator]

Uninstalled NAV. Still nothing. :-

[GhostHunter]

Try un-installing NAV, the un-installing Dune and re-installing it and patching it back up.

[Atomic Mitten]

I noticed that your file system is NTFS , maybe Doc knows if this causes problems with EMP ?

Also I see that your monitor is using the default vga monitor drivers, have you tried installing the xp drivers from your monitor's manufacturer.

If I were you I would also download the Omega drivers for your Nvidia graphics card,from http://www.omegacorner.com

They seem to have cured alot of people's problems, mine included.

[Terror]

No, i'm using NTFS, and emperor is running fine on my machine, that can't be the problem

[Atomic Mitten]

O.K. Then you might want to try the Omega drivers. ;)

[killinator]

Ok, as I mentioned in my first post, I have the omega drivers (do you own stock in them or something Atomic ;) ). I did try uninstalling both emp and nav. I then reinstalled emp and it worked fine. Then I reinstalled nav, and now I have the same problem again. Is there no choice but to choose between Nav or Emperor?

[Atomic Mitten]

I wish I did.lol

I found that NAV has alot of problems with games and xp.

So I bought Mcaffee firewall 4.0.

That works fine with all games and xp,so I guess you could buy McAffee instead.

[Terror]

yeah, buy mcaffee.

[Nyarlathotep]

Have you read this thread ?