Graphical Text Corruption in vista

[noctuk]

This is a friend's game that's having the problem, since his account in here hasnt been activated yet. Here's his problem:

Bought this game on steam and it does not work correctly , when you load the game it comes up with a lack of agp memory and i need to set my AGP memory in bios

http://e.imagehost.org/0926/Clipboard02.jpg

Clicking ok and the game ends up looking like this

http://e.imagehost.org/0157/Clipboard01.jpg

GTX 260 , Q6600 , 8GB , Latest Drivers on everything!

Many other threads detailing the problem from other users

http://forums.techguy.org/games/7664...s-problem.html
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=278353
http://www.octopusoverlords.com/phpB...hp?f=2&t=62244
http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=...=28&offset=240
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genme...topic=47014348

Looks like a refund is needed with steam purchase.

Can anyone provide suggestions?

thanks!

edit. The threads were wrong, here are the corrected ones.
thanks again!

thats basically my rig except that ive got 4gigs of ram. and ive got exactly the same problems.

it seems like noone cares though :P

[somewhatdamaged]

Same problem here, looks like Steam will be dishing out some refunds.

[Saryk]

Same problem here! Is there a fix?

There may be some light at the end of the tunnel.

I found a relatively new patch for the retail version of HoAE, seemingly from this year, that's supposed to fix this specific problem:

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/p...res/patch.html

Patch notes: "Allows to launch games of Cossacks 2 series and Heroes of the Annihilated Empires with the new graphic cards with high graphic memory. These games previously crashed with a AGP-memory shortage message."

I have no way of testing it, of course, because STEAM doesn't allow outside patching, but I'm hoping that if we all file separate help tickets, directing Valve support to the patch, they'll be able to quickly integrate it into the STEAM version.

I figure it's worth a shot. I enjoyed this game back in the day, and personally, I'd rather have it working than accept a refund.

Cheers,

-Vede

Aye i im still hoping... :P

Finally i got authorized

Anyhoo

I've tried that supposed patch fix for high memory cards all it does is stop the crashing in game with the AGP-memory shortage message. It does not fix the agp bios memory message on start up or the visual text corruption. I've tried this on a friends system who has vista 64 and the retail game which was not steam. So as of yet STILL no fix.




Q6600 @ 3ghz / Vista 64BIT / 8GB Memory / GTX 260 @ 710/1200

I'm going to try Windows 7 32bit , seperate partition dual boot..

[ZootSuitBryon]

I'm having the same problem, but running a Vista 32-bit with a 1GB GTX 280 card. Anyone put in a support ticket and hear anything back? I just put in my ticket - I don't think the support people actively read or respond on the forums.

I tried windows 7 and no change , i give up on this game and its support... Seems the only way to get it to work right is to have an agp graphics card or maybe xp

[noctuk]

Hey man, so, did you manage to get the game working?

Nope , gave up with it

[noctuk]

Originally Posted by Neilsouth

Nope , gave up with it

Damn, so are you gonna ask for a refund? Problem is i dont think valve allows refunds.

Right now i dont really care for a refund, i just want valve or who ever to say something to this...

I'd put a tenner down that nobody staff wise will respond to this thread...