Opening Movie Problem

[Antmanbrooks]

The opening movie for BtS judders and pauses, the sound stops and starts as well as the movie (and the Y2K and nVidia logo have the same problem).

I have played Civ IV, Warlords and now BtS. The only one that didn't have a problem with the opening movie was Warlords.

I currently only have Civ IV and BtS installed (fully updated with new patch) as I took Warlords off when someone else suggested this might fix the movie problem in another post. I've tried turning down my video settings in the options but still no luck? I have updated my video card driver last night but still no luck.

I've attached my DxDiag.txt

 

[tipsy09]

i am having the same problem..i have no idea what is going on..could it be the disc?

i double-click the icon...it loads..the screen goes black...there are three beats of feedback..and the game crashes...

the game starts sometimes if i constantly click the mouse...and it goes right through to the main menu...but then it can still freeze at any time...

 

[BretP]

My opening movie has the same problem. When I called Take2 tech help the guy told me "I have no idea why that happens. We have no suggestions on how to fix it. Is there anything else I can help you with?" Seeing as my game runs fine and the in game movies work, I can live with a stuttering opening.

 

[tipsy09]

no movies work..what the heck is going on...this is pathetic

 

[Yakk]

You can disable the opening movie -- that might help.

 

[Antmanbrooks]

Damn it, not only does my opening movie not play properly but the wonder movies just plain freeze. I can still play and it hasn't crashed the game yet, but it's bloody annoying. I wanna see the wonder I just spent 50 turns or more making!

Somewhere it did mention a fix for the wonder movies in another post - i'll see if I can find that again. Come on Firaxis help us with this, we love the game and wanna experience all it's glorious wonders!

 

[Antmanbrooks]

Well, it is kinda annoying to disable the movies, I want at least to watch the new ones. I read somewhere else that setting "HideMovieBackground = 1" solves the problem and it worked for me. This is in the ini file and plays the movie with a black background.

Blid mentioned this in another post. This line of text can be found in the following directory; Firaxis Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 4/Beyond the Sword - _Civ4Config.ini

I don't know if this works but I'm going to give it a go.