Problems with WC Prophecy under WinXP

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2 total messages Started by Stephen R. Marsh Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:38

#160820

Author: Stephen R. Marsh
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:38

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Prophecy was running great, then I tried the improved resolution mod.

That mod would not let me play the movies without freezing the game.

So, I uninstalled everything.

Now Prophecy, when reinstalled, freezes up without ever displaying anything
other than the launch menu (the install/play/etc. box).

Any suggestions or ideas?

Stephen
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Re: Problems with WC Prophecy under WinXP

#160821

Author: Death
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:12

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On 26 Sep 2003 02:38:12 GMT, ethesis@aol.comkosher (Stephen R. Marsh)
wrote:

> Prophecy was running great, then I tried the improved resolution mod.
> 
> That mod would not let me play the movies without freezing the game.
> 
> So, I uninstalled everything.
> 
> Now Prophecy, when reinstalled, freezes up without ever displaying anything
> other than the launch menu (the install/play/etc. box).
> 
> Any suggestions or ideas?

When you uninstalled, did you also go in and manually delete the WCP
directory before going to reinstall?  A lot of programs don't
uninstall completely until you manually nuke the actual directory.
WCP is one of them.

Uninstall, delete the directory completely, and then reinstall.  If
that should fail, repeat, but do a scandisk/defrag of your hard drive
before the reinstall step.

(Logic would dictate that scandisk and defrag would have no effect,
but putting "logic" together with "Windows", without any negative
modifiers, is an exercise in frustration.)

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