Republic Commando not working

[Nightshrill]

I installed republic commando and have tried every no-cd patch I can find. But none of them work. I load the launcher, click to play, it comes up with the republic commando screen; then it begins in full screen, just black. Then it crashes and gives me some error report. I have tried this with both pcgame's no-cd patch and vengeance's. My drivers are all up to date and I have the latest directx, I don't understand what is going on with this. Somebody please help me.

[Grumpy]

Do a 'search' of the forums as there are now a few threads concerning this game! Start with this one!

[GLH]

Is the game working, when you use your original cds without a crack?

[Nightshrill]

i've read that thread and the game does work with my original cd's.

[RyGiL]

Originally Posted by Nightshrill

I installed republic commando and have tried every no-cd patch I can find. But none of them work. I load the launcher, click to play, it comes up with the republic commando screen; then it begins in full screen, just black. Then it crashes and gives me some error report. I have tried this with both pcgame's no-cd patch and vengeance's. My drivers are all up to date and I have the latest directx, I don't understand what is going on with this. Somebody please help me.

I was having the same problem and came across the solution at lucasarts' forums. Your problem is not the cracks, it is the game. For some reason the logo movies that play at the beginning are not playing correctly. Here is the fix:

(copied and pasted from a german site)

After Double-Clicking on the Star Wars Republic Commando-Icon and clicking on "Start Game" the game crashes and the desktop comes up.

It seems the videos from nvidia and lucasarts were the problems. So you should do following things:

1. Go to Directory "installDir/GameData/movies/"
2. Copy the files "LECIntro.avi" and "NVIDIAIntro.avi" to another Backup-Directory
3. Delete the both files from the directory "installDir/GameData/movies/"
4. Try to start the game
5. Perhaps this will be fix the problems at startup

[BarryB]

Looks more like a codec problem if the AVI files are not playing than a crack problem!

Try one of the codec packages here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...cdownload.aspx

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi guys,

If you're having problems with codecs, grab GSpot from http://www.headbands.com/gspot . It can tell you A) what codec a given movie is using, B) what codecs are installed on your system, C) if there are any problems with the codecs installed and D) it tries to play the movie and tell you if something went wrong. Nice software!

Joe

[y01s4c03]

but i can successufully go to the stary up and open a profile, but as soon as t"the begining" is loaded the programme jump back to window desktop, an d

a mini window coming out saying the exe. has had a great problem and the xp close it, i try all no cd, and i even try the demo, same problem after loading , in stead of enter the battlefront, it jump out

by the way my 3d card , is mmx440 and don't support pixel shader, so is it the problem?

[Grumpy]

by the way my 3d card , is mmx440 and don't support pixel shader, so is it the problem?

Yes I would say your graphics card is the problem! The mmx440's are not much good when it comes to the latest games!

[superhero]

Originally Posted by Nightshrill

I installed republic commando and have tried every no-cd patch I can find. But none of them work. I load the launcher, click to play, it comes up with the republic commando screen; then it begins in full screen, just black. Then it crashes and gives me some error report. I have tried this with both pcgame's no-cd patch and vengeance's. My drivers are all up to date and I have the latest directx, I don't understand what is going on with this. Somebody please help me.

Try this work for me, remember #4.

http://spacetarget.com/games/pc_sw_r...commando.shtml


From http://www.gamecopyworld.com/

[gbdude]

about the 100% loading screen error. im thinking that it has something to do with the video/audio codecs. somehow i managed to get the game working before i had to reformat my drive. after reformating my drive, i had to reinstall it.

problems i encountered:

after installing, i used the patches found here on copyworld.com and applied to it. i started up everything and the screen crashes telling me that the program has crashed and gives me that "send error report" i fixed that problem by uninstall Nimo 8.0 Codec from my system and keeping only Xvid and DivX. i started it up again and it worked.

now the next problem i havent been able to fix just like everyone else here is the 100% loading error at "The Beginning" loading. for me the system freezes and my computer sound systems go blank. before Sp2 was installed, it stated that there was a error with a Device that made the freeze. but i havent figured out what the device is either. i have a Radeon card that does support pixel shading so its not that problem. but its a device problem for me. im still trying to find out.

[atros]

hi , im atros from morocco & i had the same problem
try associate the files in the map directory with the commando exe file in system directory !

How to do this ?

just simply double click on one file from Map directory in your game inst folder
u'll have a new window choose "choose a programme from a list" then browse to commado exe file located in system subdirectory of tha game folder

from now to play the game just double click on a map to launch it and play it
or go to mainpanel => so u can start a new party

[atros]

if u regularely quick save your progression and the next time u double cklick a map to play it , u cant found your saves on tha list ? , dont worrie , u'll just have to load your profiles first thats it
im waitin for a thx from u !
just kidding hehe

[xavendano]

Hi!

I have a g-Force4 MX440 - 8x
64MB DDR AGP 8X

And...I have the same problem with Pixel Shader which my carg do not support....so...what can I do???

I have to brought a new carg???


Thanks!!!

[dilat3d]

Hey guys!

I'm new here but came across the forums because I've been looking for a solution to my problem. I cannot run SW:RC. I've tried all 4 cracks/fixed exe's in all sorts of combonations. Each time I get the splash screen followed by "swrcommando.exe has encountered a problem and must be shut down" type message. What's going on here? Any suggestions? Also, could I have backed up my game with the wrong program? I used CD Mate to back the game up, should I have tried something else? let me know, thanks!