Deus Ex and XP

[ColaBoy]

Is anyone running Deus Ex under XP? My system always freezes up and restarts when the intro starts to run.

[venney]

id like some time just to say that dues ex is a bloody class game!
I belive ive played it under XP before and it worked but its not installed at the moment.

Soz

Venney

[ColaBoy]

Oh,thanks. Guess I'll never get to taste it.

[robbro]

did ya get updates for it ?

[ColaBoy]

Yeah,tried that. Also tried changing the compatability mode thing to Win 98 then win 2000. Still no good. Its that intro movie. It just does'nt wanna run on my pc. :s

[robbro]

hmm maybe something to do with codecs you got on ur pc they make certain movie files play. What codecs have you got for media player? try finding the movie itself in the game DIR then drag it on media player see if it runs. If it dont they u will know its the codecs u need to get

[ColaBoy]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Sounds interesting. Thanks,I'll try it! ;)

[ColaBoy]

Ah,problem. There are no movie files so I guess its coded into the game itself. Never mind

[robbro]

ah okay sorry no help then . Maybe try and look on forums for that game, they must have a help forum . Try here http://forums.eidosgames.com/ see if they can help.

[ColaBoy]

Thanks but what Im doing now is skipping the intro and just going straight into the game. Thats the next test. Previously when playing it my PC would freeze up at certain spots. I've installed an exhaust fan as overheating was causing problems with other polygon intensive games which, so far, are operating with no problems at all. Fingers crossed! :s

[ColaBoy]

Nope no good. Ireached a point in the game which caused problems before had it crashed again. Guess I'll try playing it again after my next pc upgrade. :s