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I-WAR 2 Voodoo3
06.04.05 at 23:28:54

Hi,
i have problems running I-WAR 2 Edge of Chaos on my Voodoo3. Even after setting all details and resolition to minimum and deactivating t'n'l, compressed textures in options and deactivating w-buffer in ini file it still exits to desktop after clicking start in the mainmenu. Any Ideas?

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Re: I-WAR 2 Voodoo3
Reply #1 - 07.04.05 at 01:10:53

I don't know what the deal is with the Edge of Chaos Technical FAQ at Atari, but here are a few excerpts from my downloaded copy that might be relevant:

Q. The game quits back to the desktop frequently / The music is corrupted. Why is this?

A. The game uses MP3 files for its music. Some programs install MP3 playback drivers - called codecs - that aren't compatible with directsound, and can cause the demo to crash or corrupt the music.

You can test if it's an MP3 playback problem by renaming the game music directory so the game can't find any MP3 files. This will disable MP3 playback.

If the game works with no music then an incompatible MP3 codec is the problem. We've found the following programs are the most likely causes:

* Xing Media Player
* Xing DVD Player
* WinDVD
* Divx codec

In most cases uninstalling the program with the incompatible codec fixes the problem.

Users with a Hercules Game Theater XP can try turning off MP3 acceleration in the HGT XP settings to fix the problem.

Another way to fix the problem is to alter the priority of the incompatible codec in the multimedia control panel. Unfortunately some programs do not install their codecs in the multimedia control panel so this solution will not work in all cases. This solution is for Windows 98/ME

* Click the Windows Start button
* Click Settings
* Click Control Panel
* Double click the Multimedia control panel icon
* Click the Devices tab
* Click the Audio Compression section.

Look for an MP3 codec that doesn't have Fraunhofer in its title (the Fraunhofer codecs are the most compatible and reliable), or a Divx codec.

If you find such a codec then you can change its priority by clicking on it, then clicking the priority button. Change the priority number to a higher value and click OK. Please note you should have also a compatible MP3 codec installed for this to work. You can install one by downloading Media Player from Microsoft.

Q. The game crashes after installing the F14.6 patch. How can I fix this?

A. Some features from a future graphics upgrade for the game accidentally made it into the latest patch. This didn't cause any problems when the patch was tested, but it seems that on some user's setups it can cause problems.

To fix it simply delete the following folder from the game:

<install folder>\resource\images\planets

This will disable the feature that's causing the problem.

We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused.

Q. There graphical glitches when playing the game on my Voodoo based card. Why is this?

Some versions of Voodoo drivers, especially those for the Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo3 can cause graphic problems in Edge Of Chaos.

We've investigated this issue, and found that the drivers themselves are faulty as they don't properly support some DirectX features the game relies upon.

Switching to an earlier or later driver may fix this problem, but we are unable to offer a fix ourselves, as faulty drivers are the cause of the problem.

Recently NVidia bought all 3Dfx's assets, including their Voodoo card technology, and discontinued the Voodoo line of graphic cards.

NVidia are not providing any technical or driver support for Voodoo based cards, which unfortunately means that there is little or no prospect of any new Voodoo driver updates to fix these graphical problems.

Note: We have had reports from some users that the following Voodoo drivers may work with Edge Of Chaos:

* Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 (Windows 95 / 98 / ME)
* Voodoo Banshee ( Windows 95 / 98 / ME )

If you find any other Voodoo driver versions that work satisfactorily with Edge Of Chaos, then please email the webmaster.

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Re: I-WAR 2 Voodoo3
Reply #2 - 07.04.05 at 09:21:31

That's it. Thank you very much. I already tried deleted the planets directory without change so i renamed the whole streams dricetroy and that was the solution. The Radium MP3 codec caused the problems. I'm downloading MP10 to extract the latest Fraunhofer codec to replace the l3codecp.acm and see if that works.

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Re: I-WAR 2 Voodoo3
Reply #3 - 07.04.05 at 09:27:53

Works. By the way. That part of the technical faq is neither on the german Atari site nor in the readme that came with the game and the update. Excuse me Voodoo3 that i tought it was you in the first place making the trouble Wink

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Andreas

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Re: I-WAR 2 Voodoo3
Reply #4 - 07.04.05 at 13:14:15

Glad to hear you found a solution to the problem.

I cycled through all of my I-War and I-War 2 bookmarks, and the only official site still active seems to be this one (which has almost no useful support information or files):

http://www.independence-war2.com/flash/01-news.htm

All of the other links are either no longer valid or they re-route you back to Atari's start page. If this is a permanent change, then there is a huge amount of support information and files for this game series that are either no longer available anywhere or can only be had from the few third-party sites still operational. This community site is probably the best one left:

http://www.i-war2.com/

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Re: I-WAR 2 Voodoo3
Reply #5 - 07.04.05 at 16:46:08

You're right. Most links from both sites you mentioned lead to 404's or worse. I checked the us atari site and that part of the faq you posted is neither there nor on iwar-2.com's technical faq.

By the way, game runs fast looks good after a bit of fiddling in the options. Space appears more rich than in freespace 2.

Regards,
Andreas

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akula65 Full Member Offline Don't Feed the Trolls Posts: 155 Gender:	Re: I-WAR 2 Voodoo3 Reply #6 - 13.04.05 at 05:21:50 After digging around in the Atari Forum, I found that somebody had posted a link to an archive of the Edge of Chaos website. Here is the link to the Technical FAQ for those who are interested: Long Link Get it while you can.
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Re: I-WAR 2 Voodoo3
Reply #7 - 14.04.05 at 14:49:19

Thanks for the link. It's always hard to find things inside of archive.org. It's so sloooooow. And often the entrance of an archived site doesn't work so you have to know the direct link to a specific htm file.

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Andreas

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