darkfall13 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I was rummaging through all my crap and came across this game in a box of stuff and I remembered how awesome it was. Then I remembered how it sucked when XP was updated and I could no longer play it, so I never actually played through the whole thing. So I installed the game on my new computer and put the 1.09 patch on and the 1.10 patch (which I guess I didn't need since it's mostly disk reading issue related) and tried starting the game. I saw the EA and Westwood intro movies and then a long pause of nothing so I ctrl+alt+delete the game and put EMPEROR.EXE and GAME.EXE into Windows 98 compatibility mode and try again. Same thing occurs and I try again. This time it runs, though the intro movies are really choppy I ignore that and start the tutorial, it runs amazingly smooth. I play through it and close the game for dinner. Now I can't get it to run again. I've tried 5 times and all I get are the EA and Westwood movies and then the game freezes. Does anyone know how to get this game to run reliably on XP SP2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfall13 Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 And I did follow the sticky "How to get Emperor running on Windows XP" thread and that did not help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfall13 Posted December 21, 2007 Author Share Posted December 21, 2007 Hey there, for anyone else that may come across this problem I e-mailed EA and they suggested I lower my sound's hardware acceleration to "Basic" under the Sound tab in dxdiag (accessed from the run command) and now it works flawlessly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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