TheRandoGuy

EDIT: I noticed if i turn off DirectX 8-9 Direct 3D in the D3D Windower i get Glide ingame and it saves when i select it. Buuuut... my menu goes half missing again >.<

Alright man thanks. Just an update when you see this. I was actually able to indirectly fix the intro/videos by setting up the D3Dwindower window mode options by ticking the following: DDraw color emulate ON, DDraw color convert ON, DDraw primary Bit ON, DDraw emulate ON, DDraw auto bit ON. I left DirectX DDraw1-7 ON, Direct 3D ON & GDI ON. Now the intro & other videos play lol. But if i had to choose i'd rather be able to actually play the game then have the videos. Apparently nGlide is still being supported on XP too. I also tried to change the EAW.INI DisplayDevice from 0 to 1 after i uninstalled nGlide and dumped the Open Glide files to the EAW folder. But it still switches back to software ingame & it changes back to 0 in the INI file too... if i dare to try an see how it is under software when i click instant mission the game crashes to windows and gives an 0x00000fd error. Not like i want to play it under software anyway.

I can't seem to find a Direct3D wrapper. But i put all wrapper files you mentioned before in my EAW folder. I also tried the D3Dwindower on your website and it seems to have fixed the menus but not the intro. I can't seem to be able to keep the Glide option in graphics settings selected either, it auto switches back to software. Might be because my nGlide app doesn't really support XP I might have to find an older version maybe? I'm not really that tech savvy, but how do you set Glide in the EAW.INI?

Hi Mark thanks for reply. Before i messaged on here originally, I Installed nGlide wrapper but that alone didn't fix it, unless i have to configure it in a certain way? But i did what you also suggested and downloaded directdraw wrapper from www.bitpatch.com. Any idea where i should put all these directdraw wrapper files? I've never used this before.

Hi guys, I have an old Pentium 4 Windows XP PC with integrated Intel extreme graphics 2 and I was helping to play EAW on it for the nostalgia. I followed what most folk on here say to do as in RIP the game from the disc to a folder then install 1.01, 1.20, 1.28, 1.28c, 1.28d then 1.28e which fixes my 7217 problem i originally had. But i have a new problem and I was helping someone on here would be kind enough to help me out. The game starts up but the intro movie is blacked out but i can hear sound though and if i hit ESC and skip the intro movie the main menu pops up but the bottom half of my screen is missing. This doesn't happen if i click on Instant mission though the screen then appears fine during combat. But I can't see everything at the bottom half of the main menu and not being able to see the intro is kind of annoying as well. Does anyone know how to fix both the intro movie and the missing bottom half of the menu screens? Also, this PC is connected to a monitor with a resolution of 1280x1024. Any help would be greatly apprenticed.