Re: Dungeon siege 2 headaches

no what i am trying to telll you is that the ds2videoconfig doesnt open at
all, the pc attempts to load it but then stops and then nothing happens.

"Jimmy S." wrote:

Hi binnysmalls,

I'm glad you mentioned ds2videoconfig ..
Lets try reconfiguring your DS II video settings:

Click START > All Programs > Dungeon Siege 2 > DS2VideoConfig
Leave the Video Driver at default
Change Resolution to: 800x600x16
Change Shadows to: No Shadows

If that works, you can optimize the setting further by selecting higher
values until you find the combination most suitable to your system. :-)

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binnysmalls Wrote:
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| no ive now tried all youve said, my game was working with fully updated
| drivers and most of the things you suggested were already in practice
| although i have redownloaded everything and performed all necessary
| maintenance. All my other games work fine, when it is at the black screen
| and wont load my pc also locks up and i cannot get back to my desktop and
| always have to reboot, the cd rom is attempting to read and continues for
| some time, it is also interesting to note that the ds2videoconfig utility
| does not load as well but appears as a running process in the task manager
| would this somehow be related?
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi binnysmalls,
||
|| Do you remember changing or updating anything on your system
|| right before the problem started? Video driver update perhaps?
||
|| Let's try some basic troubleshooting. If the problem still persists
|| please post back and we'll try some more steps. Good luck! :-)
||
|| 1. To see if it's a software conflict: Temporarily disable Startup
|| programs one at a time, starting with Firewall, Antivirus, and ad
|| blockers using this utility: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
|| or this method: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
||
|| You can lookup what a program does before you disable it here:
|| http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
||
|| 2. Run a virus scan at: http://housecall.antivirus.com and then
|| install Windows Defender from: www.microsoft.com/spyware to
|| remove any Spyware or Adware which could clog up your PC.
||
|| 3. Click My Computer / Rightclick the Drive & Choose Properties
|| / Run the "Disk Cleanup..." / Next Click the "Tools" Tab and run
|| the "Error-Checking" and "Defragmentation" utilities.
||
|| 4. Go to the Windows Update site for everything under Critical and
|| Recommended: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Some games
|| require a patch: http://www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
||
|| 5. Update DirectX and your Chipset, Sound, &Video Drivers:
|| For all Video / DirectX / Game and Hardware Issues, I have a
|| Checklist of Solutions at: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html
||
|| --
|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
||
||
||
|| binnysmalls Wrote:
|| =================
||| for the 1st month the game worked perfectly fine and then one day it stopped
||| loading. i get to the 1st black screen with the loading dots at the bottom
||| left hand corner and after all the dots appear nothing happens, game doesnt
||| load, nothing. ive now tried every single approach the support website
||| offered and reinstalled about 60 times and still nothing. what the heck is
||| going on here?



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