After as much frustration with this game as many of you, I have finally gotten it to work. I know that my hardware (mainly video card) is a little "unique", but it may work for others with my motherboard.
My Hardware:
AMD 64 3200+
1GB GEiL Value Ram
939Dual-SATA2 Mobo (I LOVE this board)
GeForce 3 Ti200 /w64 MB vram
Integrated Realtex audio
With this motherboard, I first installed the Uli AGP drivers from the site. I then installed the 80x series of Nvidia drivers and tried to play the game. It did not play any movies and the menu was missing (empty globe problem). The only way I could get the menu to work was to scale the NVIDIA drivers down to the 66x series. Needless to say, this was not the best solution. In addidtion, the game ran SLOW. Slower than it it ran on my old 1.2 Ghz Athlon.
Solution:
Uninstall the Uli AGP drivers. Now I am running the latest 7x series of NVIDIA drivers and the game runs fine (along with many others, except BF2 *time to get new vid card*). Anyway, i hope this helps someone.
My Hardware:
AMD 64 3200+
1GB GEiL Value Ram
939Dual-SATA2 Mobo (I LOVE this board)
GeForce 3 Ti200 /w64 MB vram
Integrated Realtex audio
With this motherboard, I first installed the Uli AGP drivers from the site. I then installed the 80x series of Nvidia drivers and tried to play the game. It did not play any movies and the menu was missing (empty globe problem). The only way I could get the menu to work was to scale the NVIDIA drivers down to the 66x series. Needless to say, this was not the best solution. In addidtion, the game ran SLOW. Slower than it it ran on my old 1.2 Ghz Athlon.
Solution:
Uninstall the Uli AGP drivers. Now I am running the latest 7x series of NVIDIA drivers and the game runs fine (along with many others, except BF2 *time to get new vid card*). Anyway, i hope this helps someone.
