Black and White 2 + pentium image = freeze!

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theonlycarmire

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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
 
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
 
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.
 
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?
 
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
 
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,

3. Black and White 2 is a very graphically intense game. As such, your graphics card will draw a lot of power from the power supply in your machine, especially if it is a PCI-Express card.
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Having an insufficient power supply can cause the computer to hang and crash under high loads, like those experienced when playing the game. Additionally, if the PCI-E card's power usage level is set too low in the BIOS, similar results can be seen.
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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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