Slammy

Yea i was at 640x480 reso cause i made sure of that but I had the patches installed. Looking at your specs i see youre using a nvidia video card. I USED to be able to play this game but thats when i had a nvidia card aswell. I just thought of that cause im running a ATI 9800 pro now. That may be some of the problem.Either way, unless it the patches causing it, the game wont launch with your method if i dont turn on comp. mode. I tried both patches XP service pack 1 installed DirectX 9.0b Cat 4.6 video drivers for the ATI 9800pro I did get the game to work, but its kinda a temp solution since the program expires in 45 days. I installed Microsoft virtual PC and installed Windows ME for a OS and then the game. The game is playing fine on that under XP.Its using DirectX7 cause i didnt update it or anything but the game is patched.I played for over a hour with no crashes or lockups.

Man i tried this several times and no dice. All i get is a DOS window and it clicks back to desktop. Is it ok if i install the patches? I did it exactly how you are saying and the game wont launch. Same as before in that aspect cause you have to turn on comp. mode to get it to launch the other way, then it still crashes in game. You obvisiouly have some idea with this stuff which is nice that you are messin with it. Something else i need to do to get it to work? So its a 16 bit game trying to run on a 32 bit OS? Is that the problem? I gathered this is the issue from what i read those settings do and some other things. I do know that to fix the crackling sound you have to lower the sound card hardware acceleration down to BASIC and it it fixes the sound. There are ALOT of people that want to play this game but cant cause this crap, but thanks for the help man. [Edited by SLammy on 2004-06-10 04:19:48]

Im messing with chaos gate as well. I used to play it on XP decently awhile back until i started getting crashes to desktop at a certain level. Now ive reinstalled it on a different computer i built and reinstalled my save games and i can get it to play but still get the crash to desktop every single time. I dont know what level im on but its inside some spaceship. It does it even if i start a new game as well. It seems to crash after the enemy moves and its supposed to let me move again. Ive tried everything to fix it and nothing has worked. I did fix the sound problems i was having. At first my sound was all screwy and overlapping itself and just wasnt right. I just turned the hardware acceleration for the sound card down in the control panel and it seems to be fixed. Heres my computer specs, id love to be able to play this game if anyone can find out why its crashing to desktop. 2.4c Pentium 4 @ 3.3ghz 512mb Corsair XMS DDR433@440mhz HIS Radeon 9800 pro 128mb video card Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card Windows XP with all updates and DX 9