relayerman

Anyone have any suggestions other than the one EA gives you for getting 007 Nightfire running on XP w/SP1 and all the updated drivers for Creative Audigy and ATI Radeon 8500DV? I'm bummed. I get the splash screen and then a black screen for a few seconds and BAM! back to the desktop.

Well, the AVI codecs are standard with Microsloth's Media Player and that is installed (and upgraded) so that's not really the issue. Besides, I opened the MOVIES folder and watched several of them by running them. Its got something to do with the way they are loaded, or at least the opening sequence, because I noticed that there is no sound with the intro AVI. Only with the cut scenes. I also noticed that the they are using the ogg vorbis files for a lot of the sound. I'm no expert here, but its kinda fishy to me. The games works, though, and I see/hear everything. sww

They ahd me rename the MOVIES folder to MOVIES.OLD so that the game could not find them on the hard drive. The game therefore asked for the 2nd CD which is where the movies are located. These are just cut scenes and such and don't play as smooth (thy are AVI files) from the CD but the game plays! They said they are still looking into the root cause as to why they won't play from the hard drive. SWW

Installed ATI Catalyst drivers 3.0 and upgraded Direct to 9. DxDiag posts no problems and all other games work fine (including Battlefield 1942, Mech 4). I even tried a NoCD hack to make sure it wasn't hitting a bad spot on the CD or something. Nothing works. Tried all kinds of AGP settings, Direct3D settings, sound card settings, video settings, refresh rates. Yu name it, I've tried it (I think I hit everything). I think its a Radeon A-I-W 8500DV problem with the game, but I could be wrong. Thanks for the reply. sww

I was using Catalyst 2.5 at this point. I tried Omega's Radeon drivers that are tweaked for gaming and I still got the same results. Game won't start in WinXP. Period. Gotta be the video card or drivers. Posted email toe EA tech support. Maybe, just maybe, will get a response. Thanks. sww