Broken Sword 4 wont get to menu

[doommaker]

Hey, I just got broken sword 4, it installs fine, it even boots up fine.. ive updated my sound and graphics card drivers (in-built sound, radeon 9800 SE) it goes through all the SUMO games, NVIDIA THE WAY TO PLAY or whatever ads, it gets to the AMBX logo then where i assume its spose to go into the menu... it goes black my compute beeps and i can hear the background music... but just see a black screen i hit the windows button and it says error report... heres the report i hope someone can help.

[fdjc4]

Hey, I just got broken sword 4, it installs fine, it even boots up fine.. ive updated my sound and graphics card drivers (in-built sound, radeon 9800 SE) it goes through all the SUMO games, NVIDIA THE WAY TO PLAY or whatever ads, it gets to the AMBX logo then where i assume its spose to go into the menu... it goes black my compute beeps and i can hear the background music... but just see a black screen i hit the windows button and it says error report... heres the report i hope someone can help.

what are you installing from, mounted image or original disc in drive?

[STi FlyBy]

If you're using a fixed .exe file, replace all original files and try playing the game with the original game disc ... sometimes, a crack can be the cause of the problem you're experiencing (e.g., The Godfather's car issue)

[doommaker]

I've tried boriginal cd and nocd and still no luck... i cant even say its a hardware problem... my 9800 is supported... i can hear the background sound... i have all the minimum specs... unless it doesnt like AMD chips..the bug report doesnt even tell me whats wrong, theres no proper support on the thq, sumo and barely any on the revolution website.. can anyone at all help me? Maybe i have corrupt game files? its happened to me before when i bought grandia III. What would mounting the image do? ill give it a go but....

[fdjc4]

try uninstalling the game
rebooting
and then reinstalling and finally if possible upate the game to the latest patch.


Update your graphics card drivers as well. Use original disc and disable and virtual drive software like alcohol or daemon tools. Updating windows may help as well to sp 2 and installing the .Net framework which is sometimes needed by games nowadays anyway.

[acal3000]

If the computer beeps when you get the black screen it could be th BIOS alerting that something is wrong

[STi FlyBy]

Game patched to most up-to-date version?

[doommaker]

Ok, i did all that.. ( i use omega drivers for my 9800 ) and then i thought, stuff it maybe if i play around with ati tools... i found something... my pixel shader version is 2.1... i remembered reading somewhere you needed 1.1 :sarcastic so i tried rolling it back with ati tools... or making the comp think it rolled back, booted the game up and it works.. Thanks for the help guys i wouldnt of found ati tools if i didnt upgrade