Try lowering your refresh rate on your monitor to 60hz, and to make sure the game is not starting up in high resolutions.

Is your Benq monitor SVGA?

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Thnx for answering so quick Dab. Tried the 60Hz and it does the same. Even tried lowering my hardware acceleraction. All that does is tell me a critical element is missing.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind playing on the TV, but there goes higher than 800x600 right out the window. SVGA is what it is yes.<<< the pos BenQ I meant. :eek:

That is very weird buddy. But I think you would get a quicker answer at the developers site/forums.

Perhaps another user has an answer to it.

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Tried the site and I'll be damned if i can find a support link anywhere yet. Even tried the developers site. Honestly , I just think it's just crap hardware. Not a bad thing, heheh, gives me a legit reason for the wife to OK a new tft one. :D

What type of video card do you have? read the release notes it should tell you the compatability of video cards.

Geforce 4 with 64mb will not cut it this game takes alot of framerate so you will need a decent video card to render it. I think the lowest end card under releae notes recomendation is the old geforce 4 TI series and up from there. What I did which helped me to get a bit further but didn't fix the problem was lower the game to 600x400 this may be an option you might not want to sacrifice. I set my desktop to 800x600 and from 32bit to 16 bit. Then once I started the game up I alt tabed went to task manager and under processes I right clicked advent rising and set the process to above normal. This took me farther but then it eventualy couldn't cut it. Keep in mind I'm running a 800 Duron with a geforce 2mx. Hope this helps.

Figured it out
 

It's not the vid card, but it is my primary monitor. Since I upgraded the drivers for it, it will not support lower than 1024X768. So if anyone can tell me how to change the rez in the game i can play it on my main.
Thnx for all the help fellahz.


OK, sent game vid to my secondary screen and set game vid to 1024x768. Then reset my main monitor back to primary status....All Sorted.

What a purty game it is in high rez and all bells and whistles.
Again, thnx for all your help guys. I'll try to hang around a bit more here to repay your help!

Thats what I tell people in high res this game looks nice they all say it has crapy graphics, I think it's because they are Halo fanbois anyways glad you got it working kick ass I gotta wait for my vid card QQ

I had an idea, try changing the driver for the Benq monitor to SuperVGA standard driver and not the Benq one.

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Just woke up with mighty hangover. lol
Thanx for the advice for the svga standard drivers. Sounds like a good idea because now Madden06 won't play on it at all.

God damnit :\

LOL Good old Benq they either Work or they Dont work, like all their products lol

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Damn! where's the smilie that pukes gutz?!?!?! Never drink more wine than what fits in a bottle bigger'n yer head.
heheheh being Italian means i can put the stuff away!
I always do that, why old julio gallo makes a gallon bottle is beyond me. You would think at my age i would stop meeting the challenge of drinking it all.
Anyway, I'll search a bit for some drivers when I'm a bit more clear headed.

ok this may not be on the same lines as the whole no cd key thing but i get a message that says "original disc could not be found or authenticated" i have tried the image thing thinking that that may solve the problem and it didnt. now i am very upset and have tried countless times to re-install and run the game from the original disc and the image. now i am just mad. and to make things worse i go to the advent rising website and there is no help thing. if anyone can help me please do or try i am up for anything now.

yea a no cd crack will definately be helpfull... I get the same error. but I cant use daemon tools because I use XP 64 bit. So I guess I am just SOL.

Any group out there care to make a no-CD? :(

Certainly. It's just that they - or other cracker groups, for that matter - don't bother to read this forum. ;)