I have been having trouble with games such as Civilisation 3, Medal of Honour Allied Assault Demo, Jedi Outcast 2 demo and home world.

I have run Civ 3 and Homeworld before. Homeworld exits to the desktop before the menu appears without an error message while the other three games all have problems with the opengl and .dll drivers on my computer. (I have a RIVA TNT-2 64 32mb card) Here is a copy of the MOHAA error message:--- Common Initialization ---
Medal of Honor PC 0.05 win-x86 Nov 27 2001

----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path: C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak7.pk3 (1 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak6.pk3 (1 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak5.pk3 (12 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak4.pk3 (76 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak3.pk3 (450 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak2.pk3 (563 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak1.pk3 (249 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemomainPak0.pk3 (3035 files)
C:Program FilesEA GAMESMOHAADemo/main

4387 files in pk3 files execing default.cfg execing menu.cfg execing newconfig.cfg Config: unnamedsoldier.cfg couldn't exec configs/unnamedsoldier.cfg couldn't exec safemode.cfg couldn't exec localized.cfg execing autoexec.cfg Unknown command "fov" couldn't exec custom.cfg ...detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium III

------- Input Initialization ------- Initializing DirectInput... Couldn't set DI coop level Falling back to Win32 mouse support...

------- Input Initialization Complete ------- 65 You are now setup for easy mode.

----- Client Initialization ----- Called FadeSound with: 0.000000

----- Initializing Renderer ---- ----- R_Init ----- Initializing OpenGL subsystem ...initializing QGL ...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:WINDOWSSYSTEMopengl32.dll' ): failed ...shutting down QGL ...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver ...initializing QGL ...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available ...shutting down QGL GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsyst

opengl32.dll is there so I don't no whats wrong. Civ 3 has a different error message with a glide3x.dll error message (or something similar) I have a P3 555mhz with 64mb of ram the latest drivers for my VGA card and a 7.85 GB hard drive. I am also running DirectX 8.1.

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Games crash and won't run

What's your graphics card? Have installed the correct drivers for the card? Try reinstalling directx and the card drivers (in that order). Make sure you disable antivirus software before doing this.

Have you reduced the hardware acceleration on the card?

Alistair

Re: Games crash and won't run

Homeworld runs fine on my system, there is a new version of the game available to download.