That setting turns off full-motion videos, i.e. Game starts normally now! Not sure how it affects the game, as I'm still seeing movies/cutscenes. Originally posted by norwal42:Finally, tried turning off movies in config settings. Thanks for the troubleshooting help everyone. I switched off compatibility mode (had still been in Win98/ME mode), and now it runs better/faster almost all of the time. what movies does that setting turn off?Īnother note, while the game launched fine after this change, it would slow down in big crowds (which is much of the time in this game!) - like everything runs in slow motion. no changeįinally, tried turning off movies in config settings. NET framework situation, but nothing appeared to happen. Ran DirectX update, but it says I've got the same or newer installed already.
360 controller wasn't plugged in, but it is sitting close to the computer, maybe I'll try moving it next:) - no change Tried unplugging all USB devices (printer, bluray drive, keyboard. Tried changing sound output device (even though I'm not using any USB sound devices) - no change Tried running launch.exe in WinXP SP3 mode - no change Tried running launch.exe in Win98/ME mode - no change
Installed all 3 optional Windows updates that were available - no change
I tried all of the following methods without any change - restarted computer between most of these attempts, in case something worked, I wanted to know what fixed it: My brother and cousin have similar mobo, CPU, and RAM with Win8 and newer GPUs and have had no trouble running DW8.
Win7 64 bit / 8 core AMD FX 8320 3.5GHz / 8GB RAM / MSI-NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." On launch, I see just a fraction of a second flicker of "loading" graphic in lower right corner, and then crash to black screen/kick back to desktop with error message popup "DW8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition has stopped working - A problem has caused the program to stop working correctly. Of the handful of DW8 issues threads I've found, this one seems to most closely fit what I'm experiencing.