GPL - technical question

I play GPL for more than 15 months now. Some days ago the game refused to start! Since then I cannot run it anymore. I installed some new drivers for my TNT card, installed the old drivers later on, but no chance. my system is: P2-400, 128 MB RAM, Viper 550 (TNT1) .... I play with the latest opengl patch and the 1.2 patch for GPL. When starting the game the first screen appears and the game hangs up. When I try to reinstall the game the installation quits with an error about active movie. Amovie cannot be installed, I tried it directly from the CD. The computer tells me I have a newer version of active movie. 1) Helpme! 2) Tell me how to deinstall active movie! Jochen

go to "find" type in Active Movie lookn for an activemovie.exe file delete it it may take several trys on the find with various spellings good luck

When I recently reinstalled gpl, it mentioned that I have a newer version and it won't try to install it. I don't think this is your problem though. I changed to different drivers (3dfx reference drivers) and all games would work except gpl. Wouldn't even start. Changed back to the old drivers, and no problem. Try the old drivers again, often the older ones are faster anyway (as long as they work!!) Rafe Mc On Sat, 05 Feb 2000 13:28:13 GMT, "Thomas Kellenstine"

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>go to "find" >type in Active Movie >lookn for an activemovie.exe file >delete it >it may take several trys on the find with various spellings >good luck >> I play GPL for more than 15 months now. Some days ago the game >> refused to start! Since then I cannot run it anymore. I installed some >> new drivers for my TNT card, installed the old drivers later on, but no >> chance. my system is: >> P2-400, 128 MB RAM, Viper 550 (TNT1) .... >> I play with the latest opengl patch and the 1.2 patch for GPL. >> When starting the game the first screen appears and the game hangs >> up. >> When I try to reinstall the game the installation quits with an error >about >> active movie. Amovie cannot be installed, I tried it directly from the CD. >> The >> computer tells me I have a newer version of active movie. >> 1) Helpme! >> 2) Tell me how to deinstall active movie! >> Jochen

You should be able to just ignore the activ movie error. Try going to the gpl app.ini and changing lastrasterizer.dll value to softdll.dll and then starting gpl.

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> go to "find" > type in Active Movie > lookn for an activemovie.exe file > delete it > it may take several trys on the find with various spellings > good luck > > I play GPL for more than 15 months now. Some days ago the game > > refused to start! Since then I cannot run it anymore. I installed

some > > new drivers for my TNT card, installed the old drivers later on, but no

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> > chance. my system is: > > P2-400, 128 MB RAM, Viper 550 (TNT1) .... > > I play with the latest opengl patch and the 1.2 patch for GPL. > > When starting the game the first screen appears and the game hangs > > up. > > When I try to reinstall the game the installation quits with an

error > about > > active movie. Amovie cannot be installed, I tried it directly from the CD.

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> > The > > computer tells me I have a newer version of active movie. > > 1) Helpme! > > 2) Tell me how to deinstall active movie! > > Jochen

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I changed back to the old drivers, nothing ... I tried to change that dll stuff, but that could not be the problem anyway, because the game hangs up after the very first screen. The game does not load, only the first screen and than hangup. Its two games that do not work on my machine, GPL (since one week, after 70+ weeks without problem) and Gabriel Knight 3, both from Sierra. If someone can help, I do not know what to do anymore. Jochen