sk8npirate

Ok I am having a very annoying problem here and I can't seem to figure out whats going on. First off system specs for you guys.
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
MSI Radeon 9800 Pro (newest Omega's)
1 Gb PC2700 RAM
Seagate 120 Gb HD 7200 rpm
Western Digital 200 Gb HD 7200 rpm

I was thinking of buying UT2004 so I downloaded the demo. I got a critical error and not thinking much of it I decided to buy the game anyway. So I bought the UT2004 DVD ECE and I tried to install but as soon as I launch the installer I get this "Critical Error"

UT2004 Setup Build UT2004_Build_[2004-09-02_05.02]

OS: Windows XP 5.1 (Build: 2600)
CPU: AuthenticAMD PentiumPro-class processor @ 2156 MHz with 1023MB RAM
Video: No Video

Assertion failed: GetClassInfoExW( NULL, WinBaseClass, &Cls ) [File:.\Window.cpp] [Line: 1059]

History: WControl::RegisterWindowClass <- UWindowManager::UWindowManager <- InitWindowing

So then I went to a lot of forums like the Atari forums and tried contacting Atari's technical support but they were no help. I tried uninstalling and resintalling drivers, Ive tried ATI Drivers, Omega Drivers. I even downloaded driver cleaner and tried that but that didnt even work.

I got pretty frustrated and I saw something about the tribes vengeance mp demo so I installed that but when I started it I got this "Critical Error"

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Crash Time: 01/13/05 16:54:43

OS: Windows XP 5.1 (Build: 2600)
CPU: AuthenticAMD PentiumPro-class processor @ 2155 MHz with 1023MB RAM
Video: No Video

TV Build Number: 62740

Assertion failed: GetClassInfoExW( NULL, WinBaseClass, &Cls ) [File:.\Window.cpp] [Line: 1262]

History: WControl::RegisterWindowClass <- UWindowManager::UWindowManager <- InitWindowing

Then I instaled the newest Americas Army and when I run that I get this "Critical Error"

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OS: Windows XP 5.1 (Build: 2600)
CPU: AuthenticAMD PentiumPro-class processor @ 2165 MHz with 1023MB RAM
Video: No Video

Assertion failed: GetClassInfoExW( NULL, WinBaseClass, &Cls ) [File:.\Window.cpp] [Line: 1048]

History: WControl::RegisterWindowClass <- UWindowManager::UWindowManager <- InitWindowing

I am greatly confused and like I said I tried things like uninstalling/reinstalling video drivers because I notice in the errors it says "No Video" and I'd imagine thats the problem. It doesn't make sense though because I currently play other games like Half Life 2, CS:S, Joint Operations:Typhoon Rising, Call of Duty, CoD:UO...

I figured maybe there was something I could do that maybe my registry was screwed up or something because I haven't always in the past used driver cleaner. I also used to have another video card (Geforce FX 5200) and I used to play Americas Army with that. I was just hoping someone could please help me.
Thank you.

pr0digal jenius

in your BIOS, is init display set to 'AGP' instead of 'PCI', and do you have the latest chipset drivers?

sk8npirate

Thanks for the reply.
How would I go about checking my BIOS?

sk8npirate

I just checked my video card propertires and it says this for location "PCI bus 2, device 0, function 0" could htat have anything to do with it? Is my agp card running like a PCI card?!

pr0digal jenius

no, AGP is a specialized PCI bus, so it'll read like that.

go itno your BIOS when you boot up(hit Del) and look for 'init disp mode'...make sure it'ss et to AGP

also, go to your motherboard's website and update the chipset drivers

Powercolour

that T.V. error happened once while i was playing it a little while ago, never happened b4, never heppened again...
and yeas mine is set to agp,
4.10 omega
via hyperion (4.53)

sk8npirate

Hmm well I hit del when I was starting up but it said to hit f10 for setup so I did that. That sent me to some screen and I saw an area that said PCI so I changed it to Onboard Video/AGP. I still get the error... Any other help?
Thanks

sk8npirate

I am still having trouble with these errors. Anyone else have any info that might help me?

sk8npirate

Ok I finally fixed it !

I just tried a possible fix of uninstalling then reinstalling direct x. And I ended up not being able to reinstall because I have certain issues with installers.
So I decided to uninstall sp2.
I did that and now all the games I had errors with work, and now all my installers run properly, so my system is working great!

Im going to reinstall sp2 and see if it still works and Im hoping it does, I have a feeling I just had some corrupt system files and they were replaced by the uninstall, hopefully I will get the good files when I reinstall sp2.

Thanks for all your help!

Nforce2XP

ok bro its look like is not detecting the d3d driver try to edit the ut2004.ini and change one of this options:

[Engine.Engine]
RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice (this meant that you r using d3d)
;RenderDevice=D3D9Drv.D3D9RenderDevice
;RenderDevice=Engine.NullRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice
;RenderDevice=PixoDrv.PixoRenderDevice

i can`t explaing to much but to change to opengl driver you should erase the ;
and put another ; on(RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice)so its looks like this (;RenderDevice=D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice disabled),and the opengl driver looks like this(RenderDevice=OpenGLDrv.OpenGLRenderDevice enabled)by then save the ut2004.ini file and start up the game if you have problems with the 3d3 you may be able to play with the opngl driver.
the ut2004.ini is found on c:/ut2004/system ok
Hope this help


oops never mind

sk8npirate

Alright so I forgot to check back on these forums.
Anyway a couple days ago I figured out my problem. I uninstalled service pack 2 from my pc and bang, everything worked good again including some isntallers which didnt previously work and UT2004 and all the other games.
I then reinstalled service pack 2 and everything still works

Thanks for the help

Chaos

good to see you running without issues

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pr0digal jenius

good times


sounds like maybe MSIexec.exe got corrupted (bad times)