Can't play AvP Gold

[superfly86]

I can't run the game, when i choose a class and diffculty i have this what's on screen. I changed resolution in options etc. but it's for nothing.
I have Athlon 2000XP, VIA KT4V, Geforce 5200 256MB, 1GB ram, Windows XP SP 2
Please help me

[Muyfa666]

Basically, the only thing you can do is to buy a new card. If the card can't handle the game, it's less than likely that you can force it to. Sorry.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Contact the publisher. Also, try DOWNgrading your video card drivers.

(@Muyfa666: This is an old game, from 2001! )

[DABhand]

Unfortunately AVP was around when Cirrus Logic was still making GFX cards and Creative.

The gold Version no doubt will not get updated, so your newer card will not be recognised by it. I suggest if you can change a setting in a file, for it to use software mode rendering (your machine is powerful enough to do that and have it run smooth)

[superfly86]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Unfortunately AVP was around when Cirrus Logic was still making GFX cards and Creative.

The gold Version no doubt will not get updated, so your newer card will not be recognised by it. I suggest if you can change a setting in a file, for it to use software mode rendering (your machine is powerful enough to do that and have it run smooth)

In software game will look really bad, is there any emulator of old graphic card ?

Basically, the only thing you can do is to buy a new card.

LOL ?Maybe GFFX 7800 ?

[Joe Forster/STA]

Send me an E-mail reminder and I'll dig out AvP Gold this weekend and see if it (still) works on my current PC (Athlon 3200+, Geforce 6600GT, Windows XP).

[superfly86]

Maybe you will look at forums later, and you remember about this .
Ah, and compatibilty modes didn't give nothing

[Joe Forster/STA]

Believe me, I won't remember; I forget not very important tasks within minutes...

[kosmiq]

The problem with the game is that the game is oh so old and with all newer cards there will one of two possible errors:
the above mentioned error from the creator
you get picture and the game starts but graphics are f'ed.

[Joe Forster/STA]

I've tried it, under Windows XP; you can start a mission but you will see nothing at all, other than the lights on the walls. I can't reboot to Windows 98 right now but, perhaps, it should work properly there... Will keep you informed!

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

I've tried it, under Windows XP; you can start a mission but you will see nothing at all, other than the lights on the walls. I can't reboot to Windows 98 right now but, perhaps, it should work properly there... Will keep you informed!

You get either that problem or the error the thread starter gets. Either way, there doesn't seem to be any other fix than to play with very old drivers or older O/S.

[Sulio]

The solution is quite easy - you have to rename the game executable from avp.exe to avpg.exe (case insensitive). After that, you shouldn't have any problems running it.

[DABhand]

say what?

[Sulio]

Apparently, on some systems the game engine gets confused and thinks it's running a vanilla AvP and causes problems. When you rename the executable the engine recognizes that it's AvP gold and the problems go away.

I should know, it took me days to find about this issue and get my copy of AvP to work . Also tested the fix by unistalling and reinstalling the game a couple of times - it worked everytime.

[Grumpy]

you have to rename the game executable from avp.exe to avpg.exe

Damn I wish I had the Gold version so I could test that fix!
Sounds like a bizarre method but if it works all well and good.