EL does'nt load

[Guest Guest_Siinz]

I have downloaded EL three times now, always same problem, each time it loads, I get "Microsoft encountered an error and needs to close, Report Error" etc. window pops up. I am running Windows XP Home Edition 2002, Service pack 3 and all of my drivers, graphics cards and so on are all up to par to this date. Please fix this problem because I want to try this game out.

[Maxine]

I have downloaded EL three times now, always same problem, each time it loads, I get "Microsoft encountered an error and needs to close, Report Error" etc. window pops up. I am running Windows XP Home Edition 2002, Service pack 3 and all of my drivers, graphics cards and so on are all up to par to this date. Please fix this problem because I want to try this game out.

 

What is your graphics card? Usually the problem lies there.

[Guest Siinz]

It is ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M

[Entropy]

That's strange. When exactly does it crash? Can you get to the log in screen?

[korrode]

When you say "all of my drivers, graphics cards and so on are all up to par to this date.", do you mean you got the latest video card drivers from ATi's site? or just that you've recently done Windows Update?

 

If the latter, you need the drivers from AMD/ATi's site:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

 

 

EDIT:

For Windows XP 32bit, the exact driver is this one:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/integrated_mce-xp.aspx?type=2.7&product=2.7.2.3.2&lang=English

Edited May 25, 2011 by Korrode

[Guest tillman]

When you say "all of my drivers, graphics cards and so on are all up to par to this date.", do you mean you got the latest video card drivers from ATi's site? or just that you've recently done Windows Update?

 

If the latter, you need the drivers from AMD/ATi's site:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

 

 

EDIT:

For Windows XP 32bit, the exact driver is this one:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/integrated_mce-xp.aspx?type=2.7&product=2.7.2.3.2&lang=English

[Guest Tillman]

Yeah, have the same problem, tried updating the driver, didn't change anything - just loaded some extra stuff I didn't need that I can't get rid of. Apparently ATI is not supporting this card (Radeon X300 series) anymore. any other reason that this message might be coming up?

[Entropy]

Can you get to the log in screen? If so, click on the Options menu, and then maybe try to disable reflections and shadows, see if that helps.

There is also a patch here, maybe it will help: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=55348

[Guest Siinz]

That's strange. When exactly does it crash? Can you get to the log in screen?

 

 

Right after the game is downloaded, I double click on the desktop icon, game is just about starting to load with blue bar then stops right there. That's when the popup for "microsoft encountered an error, would you like to send report" come up.

[Guest Siinz]

That's strange. When exactly does it crash? Can you get to the log in screen?

 

 

Right after the game is downloaded, I double click on the desktop icon, game is just about starting to load with blue bar then stops right there. That's when the popup for "microsoft encountered an error, would you like to send report" come up.

 

I downloaded the game again, when I went to load it, it mentioned about 'opengl extensions' then the Mircosoft Error needs to shut down window pops up.

[Guest Tillman]

Can you get to the log in screen? If so, click on the Options menu, and then maybe try to disable reflections and shadows, see if that helps.

There is also a patch here, maybe it will help: http://www.eternal-lands.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=55348

 

FYI - patch doesn't help

[Entropy]

This is really strange.. Are those computers laptops or desktops?

[Guest Siinz]

This is really strange.. Are those computers laptops or desktops?

 

This is a laptop, I have had it for nearly 7 years now, always have it up to date with everything. Runs fine with other games i've downloaded also. Links other gave me don't work at all also.

[Theryndan]

This is really strange.. Are those computers laptops or desktops?

 

This is a laptop, I have had it for nearly 7 years now, always have it up to date with everything. Runs fine with other games i've downloaded also. Links other gave me don't work at all also.

 

If it's a laptop you don't get the drivers from the ATI website: you need to go to the laptop manufacturer website, and see if there are newer drivers available for your video card.

[Guest Siinz]

This is really strange.. Are those computers laptops or desktops?

 

This is a laptop, I have had it for nearly 7 years now, always have it up to date with everything. Runs fine with other games i've downloaded also. Links other gave me don't work at all also.

 

If it's a laptop you don't get the drivers from the ATI website: you need to go to the laptop manufacturer website, and see if there are newer drivers available for your video card.

 

 

Nope, no such newer drivers since 2005. When I go to load the game after I downloaded it, I double click desktop icon, once game starts to load, seconds after, the Encountered Error window pops up as soon as it says "initializing opengl extensions" then the window closes.

[korrode]

Try this version of the driver:

 

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/9-3-1/Pages/radeonaiw_xp.aspx?&lang=English

[Guest Tillman]

This is really strange.. Are those computers laptops or desktops?

 

 

Mine's a desktop

[Guest Siinz]

Any website anyone gives me for 'drivers' does not work. Driver from my manufacturers site is current driver I have now. Don't know what else to do. My HP laptop is in tiptop shape, everything updated all the way till now since I bought it in 2005.

[korrode]

Driver from my manufacturers site is current driver I have now.

What do you mean by this exactly?

The symptoms you describe are classic video card driver issues.

Can you look at the properties of the video card in Device Manager and check that the version of the driver does change when you try different versions of the ATi Catalyst driver?

[Guest Siinz]

Driver from my manufacturers site is current driver I have now.

What do you mean by this exactly?

The symptoms you describe are classic video card driver issues.

Can you look at the properties of the video card in Device Manager and check that the version of the driver does change when you try different versions of the ATi Catalyst driver?

 

Someone told me in a recent post to see if my manufacturer has any newer versions of my graphics card, there is none at all, just the one that came with my laptop when I first bought it in 2005-2006 or so. The links I used that people have given me, I tried them all, none of them work. Checked properties, installed, uninstalled, tried clicking on 'update driver' when I check Device Manager, it tells me 'no current updates' etc. etc.

 

I restarted my pc like it told me too after downloading other drivers people suggested to me in other links, nothing, nothing works at all. I don't have any problems with another game I play that uses opengl also, it runs perfectly fine and I have been playing that game for 5 years now.