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Unable to Play SE IV and SE V

Submitted by ddogg77 on Thu, 2007-08-16 19:34. Space Empires V General

Ok, a bit frustrated here. First with SE V:

Just bought the package deal off of the steam site. I go to start SE V, and nothing. It goes to a white or black screen no matter what combo I try to use in the settings at the start-up menu.

For SE IV, I click the "Play" button and nothing happens. I have tried the resolution fix suggested, but nothing. This sucks.

My PC Specs:

AMD 3200+, ASUS X800 PRO GTO (with the latest drivers), 2gig OCZ Ram, Soundblaster Audigy 2zs Platinum, XP Pro.

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Re: Unable to Play SE IV and SE V

Submitted by Fyron on Thu, 2007-08-16 21:38.

You might be better off contacting Steam tech support... We can't really do much other than guess as to what has gone wrong with your Steam setup.


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Re: Unable to Play SE IV and SE V

Submitted by Cetus on Fri, 2007-08-17 02:51.

Have you tired the "Windowed" mode from the grafic settings?

You can also try changing "Support Multithreading" from Settings.txt ind the Data folder.

Hope it helps.

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Re: Unable to Play SE IV and SE V

Submitted by ddogg77 on Fri, 2007-08-17 10:48.

Tried "Windowed", and nada. I bought it through steam, so if you are referring to changing the folder of the game I will not be able to try that. If you are talking about drivers, I will check that out now. Thanks for your help either way.

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Re: Unable to Play SE IV and SE V

Submitted by Fyron on Fri, 2007-08-17 13:30.

Noone mentioned changing the folder of the game; "support multithreading" is a value in SE5\Data\Settings.txt.


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Re: Unable to Play SE IV and SE V

Submitted by Spuda on Fri, 2007-08-17 14:16.

hi there,
Is your desktop set to 1024 x 768 x 16 or more as se5 won`t run on a smaller video setting.

also try the 3D Device Direct3d T&L Hal

this fixed my setup issues?

Hope this helps Spuda

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Re: Unable to Play SE IV and SE V

Submitted by Dvoongar on Fri, 2007-08-31 20:17.

There's also a "safe mode" you can activate. This has done wonders for some machines.

Just shootin' in the dark here. Good luck.

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