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Title: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: dogeddie on December 28, 2006, 08:31:49 am

I update my drivers to 93.71 and now I don't get video on the cutscenes - only audio. I do have X -vid? and it was working okay before. I went back to my old driver and it's fine, but what would cause that? Someday I'll want to update my drivers and it may happen again. I'm using Vers 3.6.9 .

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: Unknown Target on December 28, 2006, 08:55:19 am

It might help if you actually said what videocard your drivers are for...
What are your system specs?

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: peterc10 on December 28, 2006, 08:56:26 am

My cutscenes work in OpenGL but not D3D, so try switching 2 openGL especially if u r using an nvidia grpahics card

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: dogeddie on December 28, 2006, 09:02:19 am

Sorry - GeForce 6800
Pentium 4  3.0 w/ ht
1 Gig RAM
I'm using Open GL

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: Turey on December 28, 2006, 11:20:59 am

Ditch the avi cutscenes and get the MVE ones.

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: dogeddie on December 28, 2006, 12:00:52 pm

Really? Do I have to convert them or do I just replace the old cutscene files?

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: Turey on December 28, 2006, 12:03:52 pm

you just delete the avis you have now, and replace them with the original cutscenes off the disks. if you don't have them, you can find them here:

http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/BASTION.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/COLOSSUS.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/ENDPART1.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/ENDPRT2A.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/ENDPRT2B.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/INTRO.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/MONO1.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/MONO2.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/MONO3.MVE
http://www.mydatabus.com/2z/tznvy.pbz/tureyhall/MONO4.MVE

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: dogeddie on December 28, 2006, 12:08:07 pm

I'll try it tonight - thanks alot!

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: dogeddie on December 28, 2006, 12:13:58 pm

When did things switch from using the avi files to mve? When I originally downloaded the game, all you could (I thought) were the avi's? I got it off HOTU

Title: Re: Driver 93.71 - no videos?
Post by: taylor on December 28, 2006, 12:24:58 pm

Quote from: dogeddie on December 28, 2006, 12:13:58 pm

When did things switch from using the avi files to mve? When I originally downloaded the game, all you could (I thought) were the avi's? I got it off HOTU

An in-game MVE player was added a while back.  3.6.9 has a new Theora movie player too, which works far better than the AVI support, and is cross-platform.  The original MVE movies are going to be converted to Theora as well, since it allows for a considerably smaller file size.  As the file size of the MVEs has largely been the excuse for people to continue to use the AVIs, having Theora support will easily remedy that.

Post-3.6.9 builds will have all AVI support removed, so it won't even be an option in another month.  The 3.6.9 release (which should be this weekend) will be the last with AVI support.  The only options will then be MVE or Theora.