help please

[AssassinsCreed]

I'm going to sound like an absolute noob but i have no idea what to.

I recently borrowed the full game of Medieval Total War 2 from a mate and so is installed from a disk. No problems whatsoever have occured when my mate was using it.

What happens is whenever i try to load a battle the the load bar loads but then the game hangs and i have to load the task bar where it says the program is not responding. I meet all the min spec and i am using Vista.

Anyone have a solution as the campaign is getting boring without the occasional battle to amuse me

Thanks
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[Fingy]

I would say lower your graphics settings. Turn off unit banners in your pref file. Turn off grass. Just set everything to medium.

[AssassinsCreed]

Thats what everything is at and the same thing is happening.

Thanks anyway.

Any further help as to how to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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[Fingy]

Maybe you need to update your video card drivers. And shut down other programs that are running in the background.

[irishron]

What are your computer specs? I know you say minimum but just to be specific.

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64 Gb free uncompressed Space

1Gb of Ram

Intel Pentium Dual - Core

Graphics Media Accelerator 950

32 bit operating system

Processor: Genuine Intel T2130 @ 1.86GHz 1.87 GHz

And as i said Vista

Help any?

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[irishron]

Vista and games are a bad combo.

That said, with the onboard graphics and cpu being pretty weak, you will only play on low or medium settings at best. If it's a laptop, the odds of upgrading either or both is little to none.

[AssassinsCreed]

So basicly im ed

Am i allowed to say that?

who cares im drunk and suprised i can even load the game

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[AssassinsCreed]

sorry for the last post was a bit intoxicated

Anyway new problem

Got annoyed at vista so took it off and put on xp

now im pretty sure that everything is on that i need to run the program but i click on play medieval black screen - unspecified error. Any ideas what to do?

None of the patches have been installed yet so do u think its worth putting them on?

Thanks

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[Marcus Septim IV]

do u have original game ? (99% that unspecified error asks for original cd)

[AssassinsCreed]

yea its the original game i borrowed off a mate
not gold version but it is the real deal

any further suggestions would be appreciated cos it looks like a new game

thanks
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[irishron]

Did you install the game with youur buddy's disc? Do you have his disc in the drive now?

[AssassinsCreed]

yea installed with his disk
and no it isnt in the drive
but as i said above it worked on vista just not the battles now uts refusing to load completely

bit l8r on than when u sent the reply but ive been out

Thanks
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[irishron]

You have to have in the drive. Copy protection finds anything but that disc, it will ruin your whole day. Because of the copy protection being what it is finds an .exe that has been modified as in cracks or run on emulation software will do anything but run right. Go buy the discs like the rest of us.

[Munch]

About the Vista, I had the same problem, only on XP, and that was caused because I unpacked the files, have you unpacked, and if so, have you deleted the two files in Data, the geography ones I mean...