I need help :)

[Edric O]

I've got a "little" problem: I can't play Dune2k any more. I can start it and do anything through the main menu, but when I try to start or load a game, my computer crashes. The screen goes black and it stays like that. I have to restart. It turned out (after a Scandisk) I had a bad sector with some Dune2k files. I uninstalled and re-installed and got the same thing. Only this time the screen stays black for just a few minutes, then it returnes me to Windows saying "Please reinstall". I did that and got the same thing.

Do you have any idea what's the problem?

Help me!!!

[dewdaf]

Once my hard drive started making funny sounds, when i ran scan disk it took 4 days to find all the bad sectors cause it took forever, windows took 1 hour to open, so, i had to buy a new hard drive, i hope yours isnt as bad!

[Edric O]

Nope. My HDD is perfectly fine. It just had one bad sector.

[buttercup]

Any other changes you've made recently to the system? Spill anything on the CD? Any problems with other games or programs? If you haven't had any other changes or problems on the system, and Dune 2000 won't properly uninstall/reinstall, contact warrenty at 650-628-1900, by email at: warranty@ea.com, or by mail at:

Westwood Customer Warranty

P.O Box 9025

Redwood City, CA 94063-9025

-Mary

[prosthetic_eye]

that happened to me when i loaded missions after getting v 1.06, but i uninstalled reinstalled, and it said i needed DirectX version 5.0, when i had v 4.7, i uploaded, and it worked.

[montego]

Edric, I have a few suggestions...

1. I keep my HD formatted with a seperate logical drive (about 10GB), and keep my games installed there - Keeping them on the system HD really fragments the HD fast, and slows down everything, as well as making an accident like this more apt to happen...

2. Scan the drive for errors

3. Defragment the HD

You need to do this about once a week or so, I suggest just setting it up in the task manager, to do it at night, or whenever it doesn't affect what you're doing on the computer. Make sure NO OTHER APPLICATIONS are running, as this will completely defeat the purpose (ie; disable screensavers, etc)

4. If you are still having trouble with the installation, I would suggest going into REGEDIT.EXE (C:Windows directory), go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHIMESoftware, and delete the Dune 2000 folder from the westwood directory. There is a chance this could be corrupted, and the uninstall process doesn't remove the entry from the Windows registry.

I'm not a geek, I swear... lol... I hope this helps...

[Guest MARTIN]

I am certain that this game, where it is so old, is having problems with the likes of new mouse drivers. the siganture of Dune 2000 playing one minute and not the nextwith no other games being effected sounds similar to my problem.

Please look at my reply under 'DUNE 2000 FREEZES/CRASHES DURING START UP'and experiment based around what I have said. I also know that this game can be funny (at least in my experience) when working with limited memeory - I used to have only 32Mb - combined with too much graphics acceleration. Until I upgraded to 128Mb I used to have to turn the Graphics acceleration dow under Control-system (and reboot) otherwise the game would not play.I am certain that anything in the actual dune 2000 directory under the heading 'failure'is going to be very much a read herring.