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You should not have VIA drivers if you if have an Intel chip, so I don't understand what you are talking about with the VIA drivers?

Make sure your color depth is set to 16BIT.
And make sure you have the latest drivers for you video and audio cards.
 

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Run a directX diagnostic please and post results here.
Start-Run then type dxdiag.
Select save all information to file then post the contents of that file in this thread.
 

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What else is running in the back ground.
Make sure everything is shut down including E-mail/internet, icq/messanger, Virus protection ...
 

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I would suggest adding some memory to your system, it is very cheap now, and it would help all your aplications.
 

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Play on 800x600, and music set to off in the EU2 settings program.
This may help performance somewhat.
 

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Okay 3 problems stand out.
1) Your Video driver is way out of date.
2) Your sound card driver is out of date.
3) You are using VIA drivers which are known to be buggy.

Update those.
Also rename the AVI folder to AVI_back, set color depth to 16BIT and make sure nothing is running in the back ground like Virus protection, ICQ/Messanger ...
 

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Could be.
Make sure you have 1.05C as well.
 

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I did notice that your DirectX is out of date, you are using the public beta copy and not the latest release, upgrade to 9.0b
 

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can't hurt. ;)
 

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Most bugs are gone by this patch level. ;)
Just some Hardware problems.

You said you are having the problem with EU2, and that program is rock solid now, excluding any new bug introduced and fixed quickly in the beta patches.
 

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Rock solid means that most user can play it with out any CTD.
It is always possible that something you have installed on your system causes a conflict.
If you really want to test this out reformat your drive and reinstall the operating system, then update the operating system including DirectX and the Audio&Video drivers, then install the game, You will most likely find that the game works great.
 

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I had a Microsoft game, that thier tech support told me my Video card did not support, even though it supported ones older and newer than mine.
I tried everything to get it to work, I was going to return it, when my harddrive crashed. When I installed it on a fresh install, presto! worked like a charm. Now that is a Microsoft game on a Microsoft operating system. Go figure!
 

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I take it you were refering to watersrog's comment and not mine.
As for not being able to play games after a format, that is just a matter of installing drivers and updating your system back to current levels.
 

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And when you have it all set up the way you want, mirror it onto a CD-rom, so you can revert back anytime you want. :)
 

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jpd said:
The (technical) reason why you want to do this (even if you don't realise this), is threefold.

1 - Leftover DLL's in the system directory due to incomplete uninstalls
2 - Ever increasing registry bloat, for the same reason
3 - Bloating and/or corrupted driver database

1: Cured by DELTREEing the system/system32 directories
2: Cured by deleting the Windows directory
3: Cured by DELTREEing INF directory

Do all three before a reinstall and you get the same results as a reinstall following a full format ;)

Jan Peter
Better throw in a defrag as well, if you want to duplicate the results of a format. ;)
 

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Win XP-pro apears to handle defrags fine, but on early versions of windows, I have had programs messed up on running a defrag, it has to do with so things needing to be in a particular spot on the HD.
 

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MostlyHarmless said:
That must be some special programs. I would guess that a great majority wouldn't have problems with defrag.

You would be suprised how many programs used to require that. A lot of it was copy protections stuff which is not used a lot anymore.
 

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Like I say not really an issue today, some defrag programs even have flags to leave those sectors alone.
 

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What do you think of NTFS format, I looked a defrag report about a month after a new format and I had thousands of fragments, I was a little disapointed to be honest. I wonder if you have heard any comparisons with this format?
 

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What was the original subject of this thread again. :D