Black and White 2 + pentium image = freeze!

Discussion in 'Video Gaming' started by theonlycarmire, Nov 11, 2006.

  1. theonlycarmire

    theonlycarmire Geek Trainee

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    It's so weird, but when I install Black and White 2, it installs fine. Whenever I try to run it, it goes to the opening credits and then freezes on the page that says "This game was built to perform on a Pentium chip."

    I can hear the music from the menu, and can get rollover states on the buttons, but it stays on that one frame.

    Has anyone heard of this happening?

    I want to play B+W2 so bad!!!

    :)

    -carmire
     
  2. yorkkev28

    yorkkev28 HWF Minion

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    I found Black & White 2 to be graphics demanding, even at low settings. It could of been so good but i aint forking out loads for a top spec card. I got game freezes and framerate drops constantly from install right through to playing. It just got to be unplayable so i traded it in for Age of Empies 3
     
  3. theonlycarmire

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    not a bad choice I don't think
     
  4. Rising Phoenix

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    Can't say I've heard of that happening. I do remember having "some" problems with Black and White 2, but I eventually sorted them out, as has been said, it is pretty graphically demanding even on low settings...

    I dunno if I'd trade it in for Age of Empires 3, I love AoE, but AoE3 was honestly, a bit of a let down.
     
  5. yorkkev28

    yorkkev28 HWF Minion

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    AoE had some probs but i thought it ticked all the boxes as far as gamplay, graphics, hardness, and a good story. Best thing ever was being able to put a huge Galleon in a small puddle.
    All we need now is a game that plays like AoE, is tactically as good as rome: total war, with the unit strength of cossacks.

    As for Black & White 2: what spec u currently trying to run it on?
     
  6. theonlycarmire

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    I'm running it on an AMD Athlon Dual core processor, something 64, running at like 2.5 ghz, and I'm, running an nVidia geforce 7900 GTX with 512 graphics mem.

    Which is a pretty nasty system, so I dunno why it would be freezing.

    It's not like it won't run, it just freezes on that one screen. I can even hear the main menu load up...

    -Carmire
     
  7. yorkkev28

    yorkkev28 HWF Minion

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    How bizarre, it ran on my system but only just and the spec wasn't as good as that. 6600gt 128mb, athlon 64 2.2ghz, 1 gig of corsair ram,

    Thats what i love about pc games, its not as simple as just putting the game in and playing it. I can't run any of the GTA series my pc just throws a tantrum.

    I got this from Lionhead's website,

     
  8. theonlycarmire

    theonlycarmire Geek Trainee

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    Hmmm...

    I have a 550 watt power supply, which can power TWO of the cards that I have linked together with SLI....

    Maybe I'll check out my BIOS and do something there.

    That's about the only thing that I can think of.
     

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