Gday Hilux,

I had the exact same crash as you describe though I have a nvidia card and the problem has not had a fix, that I know of.

As far as I can tell its caused by the 1024x768 screens and possibly a memory overflow in 1.28E.

The only way to bypass it that I found with this release is to not be so brave and/or shoot down too many enemy, you know, the Distinguished Service Order
type of activity.

Hi,

if the crashes are related to an movie, "PlayIntro=0" would solve it.

Otherwise the included campaign files might cause the trouble.

When i find the time, i will offer a setup withot this files.
Otherwise, if you dont want to play online, you could go to:
ETO_01 -> Planeset2
Here you need to remove the following files:
MISN43.DAT
MISN44.DAT
MISN45.DAT
SQDESCGR.STR
SQDESCUK.STR
SQDESCUS.STR
SQNAMEGR.STR
SQNAMEUK.STR
SQNAMEUS.STR
SQGR43.DAT
SQGR44.DAT
SQUS43.DAT
SQUS44.DAT
SQUK43.DAT
SQUK44.DAT
CAMPGR43.DAT
CAMPGR44.DAT
CAMPUK43.DAT
CAMPUK44.DAT
CAMPUS43.DAT
CAMPUS44.DAT

Be carefully, dont delete a other file.
This also could be done with Planeset1(if there is trouble), bute here also the 1940 files need to get erased.

Greetings,

Knegel

Hey Nads, nice to see you again. Talk about being hamstrung by one's own success I'm really glad to hear that I'm not the only one with the problem (glad to hear that it's not a unique to my machine, not glad to hear that other people have problems).
Thanks Ralf, unfortunately I already had the intro videos turned off. Unfortunately flying online isn't an option for me right now (no internet connection to my computer), so I will try deleting the files you mentioned and see if that fixes things. Otherwise I'll just play for the Americans, Germans or Russians or use an older version of the game for campaigns until a fix comes out.
Thanks for your time gents, Hilux.

Hi there, just been installing eaw on my pc (xp), at first it gave me the error 7217 message, looking through here I followed your advice to the 3 pam biddell 1.28e downloads. This helped to a point - I can now get into the game, and flight is fine, but in all the menu screens I can only see the top half of the screen, the bottom half is black. Anyone got any ideas how I can get it back as I can't see what I'm doing, change control settings, play the game properly?!

Stoobart,

go get the d3dwindower :

http://www.brothersoft.com/d3dwindower-238977.html



and then read this thread :

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3085348/1/EAW_Mod_Newbie_Help.html


I think it will solve your problems.


cheers,


Pobs

Hi,

i have win7 but i can't dll WSPRITES.CDF!!!

Anyone can help me?

Obrigado

Hello Maj_Alvega.

Welcome to our forum.

Here is a link for the Sprites.cdf if you using 1.28e

http://rapidshare.com/files/439578723/SPRITES.rar

I hope it helps.

Thanks for the help Col. Gibbon,


I already copy the other files (no wsprites.cdf) of eaw cd to a new eaw folder; then create a new folder in eaw folder, copy the 22 cdf files(no wsprites.cdf), ini, music folder and the 3 zip files from 1.28e; then i run the 3 files to install 1.28e.
My question is: i just have to copy the wsprites file you send me to the eaw folder and the new folder i had create?

[sorry my english]

The normal install method is to copy your EAW CD to a folder which you can call EAW.

Once you have a 1.0 complete install copied to your folder, simply apply the 1.28e patch to it, which will over write most of the files in the folder, and then you can try running the EAW.exe.

If you have scrambled screens, but the game runs, then you will need to install the windower program. There are lots of info already posted here by Pobs about how to get the Windower working, so I will not repeat the info, just do a search for "Windower"

Hi Col. Gibbon,

thanks again for sending the file, i dll it and copy to the folder and realise that there are 2 sprites files: sprites.cdf (245kb) and wsprites.cdf (24.552kb) you send me the first but is the other that i can't copy from cd! it is possible you send me the bigger one?

thanks