King's Quest 2 won't load, the Tierra intro won't start...
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King's Quest 2 won't load, the Tierra intro won't start...
I click it and it has the kq2 loading screen, THEN I wait and wait forever for the Tierra Intro thing to start and nothing happens. It won't start. So what do I do? Any help will be appreciated!
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The game should be installed to something like C:\Program Files\Tierra\King's Quest 1\ (I'm at work, and don't have the game here, so that might not be 100% correct). Just open Windows Explorer (or My Computer) and navigate to that directory. Look for the files Erpy mentioned and move them somewhere else. Those files are actually the movie files, and you computer appears to be having problems playing them. When you play the game, you should get an error about it not being able to find the files. Just click through it and you should be good to go.
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I had this issue as well. I'm very sure it has something to do with the combination of filters that DirectShow will use to render the MPEG stream, so, on a hunch, I went into my FFDShow settings window, and explicitly told it not to be used for KQ2VGA.exe. It then worked perfectly fine. I'm looking into what, specifically, AGS doesn't like about my FFDShow... I'll post my findings if/when I have any.
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Okay, I've changed a heap of settings in FFDShow to no avail. I'll just write up the best way to disable it for KQ2VGA here then :D
PART 1:
(This part assumes that you do not have a "Configure FFDShow" shortcut somewhere in your start menu. Try to find one of these first. If there is one, skip to PART 2)
Edit2:
In reality, if you got FFDShow with Combined Community Codec Pack, there should definitely already be a shortcut in your start menu to configure it, under the Combined Community Codec Pack (might be labelled CCCP) folder in your start menu.
Edit:
Okay, I've changed a heap of settings in FFDShow to no avail. I'll just write up the best way to disable it for KQ2VGA here then :D
PART 1:
(This part assumes that you do not have a "Configure FFDShow" shortcut somewhere in your start menu. Try to find one of these first. If there is one, skip to PART 2)
- First of all, find out where your FFDShow is installed (it is a file called ffdshow.ax). If you got it with something like the Combined Community Codec Pack, it should be in Program Files\Combined Community Codec Pack\Filters\FFDShow\ffdshow.ax ... It might be in Program Files\FFDShow ... it's up to you to find out where it is located.
Once you've found ffdshow.ax, create a shortcut to it. Go to the new shortcut's properties page. Add rundll32 to the start of the Target box, and ,configure to the end. It should appear something like:
Target:
rundll32.exe "C:\Program Files\Combined Community Codec Pack\Filters\FFDShow\ffdshow.ax",configure
Press OK. Double Click the shortcut.
- Now, go to the "Info & debug" panel, tick the "Don't use ffdshow in:" box. If there's nothing in the box under the tickbox, just simply put in KQ2VGA.exe. If there's already something in there, just put a semicolon between the last entry and your new KQ2VGA.exe entry. For example:
explorer.exe;oblivion.exe;KQ2VGA.exe
Apply the settings. It should be sweet then.
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In reality, if you got FFDShow with Combined Community Codec Pack, there should definitely already be a shortcut in your start menu to configure it, under the Combined Community Codec Pack (might be labelled CCCP) folder in your start menu.