BTS problem.....uhggggg

[Transkar]

Just bought it this morning and now I'm going through the same bull I had to go through when with civ4. I just installed it and when I click on it everything loads and then it goes to the black screen. After this I hear the faint sound of the 2k logo song and then it stops running and says, "BTS has encountered a serious problem and must close". I send the error report but it gives me no solution. If I bought it this morning.....shouldn't it have the new patch as well?

 

[ori]

No if you bought it this morning it probably does not have the 3.03 patch on it since the cds were produced much earlier. And it is a good thing too since the 3.03 patch does not do any good unless you are running Vista (are you?).
Since it does give you a windoofs error report - could you just click on "show report" and post what it tells you in the upper part of it (especially what .dll causes the crash). It might be a problem with playing the intro video, which could easily be fixed.
FYI the first real patch is due out in about 2 weeks or a bit more...

 

[Transkar]

No if you bought it this morning it probably does not have the 3.03 patch on it since the cds were produced much earlier. And it is a good thing too since the 3.03 patch does not do any good unless you are running Vista (are you?).
Since it does give you a windoofs error report - could you just click on "show report" and post what it tells you in the upper part of it (especially what .dll causes the crash). It might be a problem with playing the intro video, which could easily be fixed.
FYI the first real patch is due out in about 2 weeks or a bit more...

binkw32.dll

If you could help I would greatly appreciate it

 

[ori]

binkw32.dll seems to be a problem for a lot of people - it is a video problem by the way. Since I am lazy I'll just quote a few things I posted in other threads on this problem. The first quote will probably help, the other lists a few more options:

Sorry - the only thing you might try (since this thing is only necessary for the videos) is to open the .../My Games/Beyond the Sword/CivilizationIV.ini and change the

; Set to 1 for no intro movie

NoIntroMovie = 0

setting to 1 - *maybe* that lets you actually get past the intro screen, but I have to admit that I don't really believe that will help, other then that - I am really out of ideas

Edit: Virulent was faster...

Does it crash only with wonder movies?
How about the following: open CivilizationIV.ini in your .../My Games/Beyond the Sword directory and change any (one at a time ) of the following values
to 1

; Dont show the game background during movies - may speed up movie playing
HideMovieBackground = 0

; Show movies using hi-color, not true-color (may be faster)
Bink16Bit = 0

; Copy ever other scanline during movie playback (faster)
BinkInterlace = 0

or to 0

; Don't skip frames if falling behind
BinkNoSkip = 1

; Copy entire image each frame, not just dirty pixels
BinkCopyAll = 1

maybe that resolves the crash (if it is due to hardware issues...)

edit: I just read the stuff about binkw32.dll, maybe try the stuff we tried here

 

[Transkar]

binkw32.dll seems to be a problem for a lot of people - it is a video problem by the way. Since I am lazy I'll just quote a few things I posted in other threads on this problem. The first quote will probably help, the other lists a few more options:

Thank you it fixed it. I tried it with viewing the movies but the movies don't work....so I just turned those off too. Hopefully they can fix this in the future. Thank you though!