Disciples II & Robin Hood problems

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How do I get Disciples II to go past the splash screen?

How do I get Robin Hood not to crash while loading after the movie?


PIII 933 mHz, 512 Mb RAM, XP pro SP2
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Hi mrtee - what errors are you getting when you try to run the games? I've tested both and they work fine, so something out of the ordinary is going on...
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Disciples II, the splash screen appears, click on either game, the screen disappears, cursor shows working in background, the splash screen reappears. The same thing happens when clicking on the .exe in each of the folders as well. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game twice.

Robin Hood, the splash screen appears, the movie plays, it starts to load (bar at bottom of screen) to about 95% approx. and crashes. Just tried to load it now and got a BSOS with the error code STOP: 0x0000008E (0x00000090, 0x0053B246, 0xf1c71714, 0x00000000) and this in event viewer:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Save Dump
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1001
Date: 3/28/2005
Time: 4:00:54 PM
User: N/A
Computer: EAGLE1
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000008e (0xc0000090, 0x0053b246, 0xf1c71714, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini032805-01.dmp.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I can zip and send the dump file if you like.

Thanks,
Jeff
Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
On 3-29-05 I restored an image from 1-19-05 with Desciples II on it, the program worked as it is supposed to (at least it opened and started the movie) so I hit exit.

I then updated all of my programs to 3-29-05, now I am back in the same fix. Splash screen opens, click on a game title and it exits back to the same splash screen. What update did it I have no idea right now, I'll need to replace the updated image with the old image and install things 1 at a time and try the game after each update.

I'll try updating the video drivers to see if RH works before i restore again. Right now it's late and I need some sleep.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Hi mrtee,


Are you running WindowBlinds? If so, try adding the various .exe files to your WindowBlinds exclusion list to see if that fixes the problems. We reproduced the bug with Disciples yesterday and WB was the culprit (future versions of WB will automatically exclude those .exe files).

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Great, thanks for that!

Yes running the latest WB from SDC. I will not uninstall anything yet then, but I will try a video driver update for RH.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
The new video driver now allow the game (RH) to load and run BUT when I press escape to quit the game it crashes with a BSOD.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
The new WB (4.51 (build 201)) did not fix the problem with Disciples II.