Cannot start the game

[Mrnemo]

After installing the game - I cannot get it to start.

Bought the game after Christmas and just got around to playing it. I installed and the latest patch straight after but the autoplay function did not work. After installing the patch I did start playing the tutorial and everything seemed fine - I noticed that the game takes an age to load.

Next day tried launching the game from the Windows bar after START but just get a black screen - with AGEOD in bottom left corner. Launching from the exe in the programme's folder - I get the red AGEOD screen but get no further. Tried reinstalling the game and the patch but no go. Tried all the different display options - maximised, different resolution - mouse in software, etc. I always get the windows bar at the bottom although in some options its is only partly there.

I have - Intel Pentium 4 650 1024MB memory. SOUND Intel Chip on Motherboard XP Home edition Service Pack 3 Geforce 6200 Turbo 256Mb with latest driver and latest version of direct X. Just done a full reinstall and got all the latest patches.

After reading thelast number of posts suspect the game is not compatible with latest version of direct x or that the start section of the game code conflicts with latest XP patches. I did get it to play after all but not to autplay the DVD! But I could be wrong.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Pocus]

Hi Mrnemo,
Sorry for your troubles.
Can you send this post and your dxdiag to the Support mail? We will check the situation from there.
Have you tried the game without patching, does it run?

[Gray_Lensman]

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[ohms_law]

A gig of memory is potentially a problem?
Grey, Windows uses Virtual Memory. It pages memory out to disk. Computers that have less then 1GB of physical ram are extremely common.

Memory isn't the issue here, the issue is probably DirectMusic.
One thing that you could try is to install the DirectX SDK (December 2006) version. That's the last version which directly supported DirectMusic, as far as I know.