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Natpost10 -> Game starts but stops working (12/20/2019 11:17:57 AM)
Hi Sorry for bothering tech support. However, before I wrote my question i had read all related posts. So, I just purchased the game DW, tried to start it, but it fails. I downloaded the game via Steam. I had downloaded several games via Steam and never had problems to start games. When I press button Start, I can see the little window with the game name, I can see small messages inside this window as well, but after this window closing , I can see that Game tries to switch to another mode. At this stage game stops working. I start it again, same problem again. I disabled movie play in autorun.ini file, however the game behavior did not change at all. I dont have dump file I use Mozilla , I set Windows Mediaplayer as default player.I updated video drivers as well.So, i am stuck Could you please advise what can I do? Thank you Nat

Jorgen_CAB -> RE: Game starts but stops working (12/20/2019 2:41:49 PM)
I just installed the game (from Steam) and also installed the Bacon mod with the RetreatUE on Windows 10 64bit on a Laptop with an Intel/Nvidia double graphics card, probably the most complicated setup to install any game on. My problem was three things that needed to be done... Step 1 in your "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Distant Worlds Universe" folder there is a text file called "startup.ini". In this file change... playmovie 1 to playmovie 0 Note: The reason why the movie does not start are most likely becasue you have a hybrid Intel/(Nvidia or ATI) as you do on many laptops, but even some dasktop computers have those. The media player will try to start the movie with the Intel CPU and the game runs with the proper GPU. This will not work. You can force the game to run with the Intel GPU but I would not recomend doing that, just disable the movie... ;) You sadly can't force Windows 10 to run the Media Player with the proper GPU such as Nvidia or ATI Step 2 Install DirectX9... the files does not come with the Steam installation so use this one... https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=8109 Step 3 I had to start the game with Administrator mode for the Bacon mod to load, but I don't think I needed to do that with the standard game. Most likely because the Bacon mod throw a modal popup when the exe is run. Note: This step should only be necessary for the Bacon mod... I hope this help for you too...

Natpost10 -> RE: Game starts but stops working (12/20/2019 11:31:49 PM)
Thank you, Jorgen!!! Actually it started working when I replaced video 1 to video 0 in ini file. It is weird because I followed the recommendation of tech support to change ini file like this - 'video 1 instead of video 1[&:] Best regards Nat

Jorgen_CAB -> RE: Game starts but stops working (12/20/2019 11:57:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Natpost10 Thank you, Jorgen!!! Actually it started working when I replaced video 1 to video 0 in ini file. It is weird because I followed the recommendation of tech support to change ini file like this - 'video 1 instead of video 1[&:] Best regards Nat Your welcome... happy gaming!!! ;)

Natpost10 -> RE: Game starts but stops working (12/21/2019 12:02:48 AM)
I will! However It looks very complicated from the first site

Jorgen_CAB -> RE: Game starts but stops working (12/21/2019 1:06:50 AM)
I recomend starting with pre warp in the first few games... play a few dozen years restart a couple of times and it will ease you into the game. You need allot of patience as it is a slow game where things happen gradually. Especially logistics and resource distribution are things that take time to adjust to changes in your infrastructure and when you build new colonies and so on. There also are many Youtube let's play and tutorials, check them out.

Natpost10 -> RE: Game starts but stops working (12/21/2019 5:49:20 AM)
Thank you for your advise !! First I need to learn several game's terms))Like pre warp stage to find out what it is))) Anyway , I will start soon , thanks to Xmas holidays)) Best regards

balysears1 -> RE: Game starts but stops working (1/10/2020 1:49:47 AM)
I have this issue, also. Purchased directly from Matrix. Per the above comments I went looking for a startup file and found several. Where I found "play move 1" I modified them one by one to "play movie 0". Still not working. And I just made coffee preparing to stay up all night with a new game.... Can anyone help?

Bingeling -> RE: Game starts but stops working (1/11/2020 11:34:21 AM)
You got windows media player installed?

Jorgen_CAB -> RE: Game starts but stops working (1/13/2020 5:47:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: balysears1 I have this issue, also. Purchased directly from Matrix. Per the above comments I went looking for a startup file and found several. Where I found "play move 1" I modified them one by one to "play movie 0". Still not working. And I just made coffee preparing to stay up all night with a new game.... Can anyone help? Did you perform the other steps in my guide? It also should be "playmovie 0" not "play movie 0" if that is how you entered the value in the Startup.ini file, also make sure there is not a ' before the playmovie as well.

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