Help! EF II stopped running in XP!

[dudalb]

I recently installed the SP2 pack for XP Pro, and East Front 2, which played before, not does not play. It loads fine until I get to the choose a scenario screen, then when I choose a battle..any battle ...the program crashed and I get a error message saying that EF 2 has encounterd a problem and must close.I can provide the message if required.
What is puzzling is the game ran fine until just now. But from this newsgroup there appears to be no compatability problem with SP2 . What gives. I can unstall SP 2 but that is a last resort...
The wierd thing is West Front and Rising Sun run fine. :mad:

[Krink]

I have not heard of this problem before, and maybe someone can shed some light on this. But I would suggest that since WF and RS are working....why not just reinstall EF on your computer again?

Cheers,
Ray

[dudalb]

A new installation is the first thing I tried. I tried comapbility mode, everything.
I think I have narrowed down the problem, though. EF2 works fine as long as I don't install the "Fall of the reich" expansion. After a little work I narrowed the problem down further: For some reason the computer has decided not to like the ef.exe program that comes with "Reich". As long as I don't install that, the program works fine.
I just remebered something. I accidently put in the wrong CD...the EF2 instead of Reich..in the drive. Could this have messed up the way windows deals with "Reich" in some way?
I have ordered the World in Flames set , something I have been meaning to do since they are getting hard to find.
I have an older computer I can lay EF2 with the Reich expansion one, but I am trying to avoid putting mileged on that to preserved it for the programs that just will not run on XP.

[Gnrl Confusion]

EFII runs on XP. Make sure you do windows update, if you haven't already, there's a ton of patches. Also make sure the version of EFII is patched. Check your video card settings and consider updating the driver.

Looks like you're troubleshooting your way through this, though, but let us know.

[dudalb]

EF II runs fine, the problem is that when I install the "Fall Of The Reich" add on pack that the problem springs up.
The wierd thing is before I upgraded to XP using SP2 EF II with
Fall of the Reich installed worked find. It was only after I added Service Pack 2 that the problmes began. It is an issue that for some reason the system does not like the EF2 execute file that is installed when you install "Fall Of the Reich".
I can at least play EF II, so I should be thankful, but I want to play the scenarios and the night screnarios that come with the expansion kit, dammit..
I have trouble shot it about as far as I am able. Hopefully somebody can help.
To summarize EF II runs fine as long as I do not install the Fall of the Reich expansion pack. After I install it, it crashed when I try to load a scenario or campaign...any scenario or campaign. The issue is with the expansion pack.

[Gnrl Confusion]

I still suspect your video card driver. Is it the latest? I don't believe it's XP, but rather bugs in the early "made for XP" drivers. I had a problem playing a game with an Nvidia card driver. Took two updates for it to finally work. Also, check out the knowledge base on your video card manufacturers site, if there is one.

Try copying the error you get into a "google" search. See what comes up. Also try searching the same error in the microsoft knowledge base. Sometimes you can get lucky doing that.

Also, try starting your computer in safe mode and see if it works.

Wish I had Fall of the Reich, but I don't so I'm stuck having to give you general advice. Sorry. If you want, copy the error message here and I'll try to troubleshoot for you. Or make it crash, go to start>control panels>administrative tools>event viewer>then double click the application log. Double click anything that has a red x error. Let me know what it says. If you're lucky, there'll be a link to a microsoft bulletin that'll give you a clue to the problem.