RavenX

Join Date 10/2008

+194

[Bug] Crash During Intro

Don't hit a button early

I like the Intro, I do. It's a well placed joke by Stardock and I watch it every time I start a game. I wondered though if you could skip past it by hitting the button "Enter or Space" to get to the main menu before the Intro ends. Sadly if I hit the button early, or click my mouse, the game CTD's to desktop. I have to wait at least until the yellow lettering appears before I can hit a button and get to the main menu. Hitting a button before then will cause a CTD Every Time. I've tested it and can do it every time if I so chose. Can everyone do this? I'm only running Elemental on one machine so I don't know if everyone can do this or if it's a local bug.

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astrath

Join Date 04/2006

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Post your debug and dxdiag

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ScottTykoski

Join Date 03/2001

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Also, try running with the /skipintro paramater, or go into your prefs.ini (my games/elemental) and set SkipIntro = 1

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Here's my DxDiag:

http://pastebin.com/m4c5b86cc

How do I post a debug log? Oddly enough I've never done that before.

Here's my System Specs:

Intel Quad Core i7 Cpu 920 @2.67 GHz (Shows as 8 processors but it's only 4 Dual Cores)
3.99 GB (4 Gigs) of Ram
NVidia GeForce GTX 280 1 Gig Video Memory on the card (soon to be dual SLI)
DvD/CD Burner 20x20x12x
Blu Ray Burner 8x12x16x Speeds
Realtek High Definition Audio
2x Western Digital 1 Terabyte Hard Drives
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Version 2003 Service Pack 2

So I take it everyone else can skip past the intro at any time without a CTD? If I wait 5 or 6 seconds and then try to skip it I go to the main menu just fine and can play as normal.

@BoogieBac: Thanks for the quick reply. I already edited the .ini to skip the intro when I found out I couldn't skip it by clicking early.

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Edit: Ok, I just fired it up, hit the intro and immediately clicked my mouse...and went straight to the main menu with no problems at all.

I swear I tested it 6 or 7 times in a row before I made my first post in this thread.....LoL. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why it's called a Beta. False alarm, my bad.

Sorry for the Double Post.

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I've been getting this too, no worries. It usually happens at the very beginning of the intro, and its more consistent if you click really fast.

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Strand

Join Date 05/2003

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I've actually had to make myself wait until I can see the video start to play. Pretty reliable way to simply have the game not start up otherwise.

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Raven, just a side note - you should "upgrade" your OS imo....XP x64 is not the best choice to be honest. Vista x64 with SP1 is much better... [Especially if you work on it with vlite. Vlite can do wonders...my x64 Vista is hella fast, and it's only a 1.5Gb install now compared to the ~4Gb original install size. - You basically remove the unnecessary parts with it. Yeah..it works like a Linux install...]

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Quoting Tormy-,

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Didn't we already have this argument my friend?

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