GTL Problems 1

[BCA]

Installing the bloody thing!!! sorry, I did warn you!

I have just inserted the CD, done as requested, changed the screen colour settings to the highest one (I have a feeling thats where I went wrong) and now it comes up with an error page while installing after restart... "Bad pool header" then it restarts my computer to avoid damaging it.

any ideas?

>> Edited by BCA on Tuesday 6th December 18:38

[UncleDave]

Sounds to me as though that is Hardware trouble....
Could be knackered totally.. or may just need you to update drivers for motherboard, graphics card etc...


That is most probably not related to GTL itself, but when the installer tries to do something, it cannot because of another error with your hardware.

Dave.

[UncleDave]

Yeah just done a spot of research.. try updating the Video / Sound drivers as these are the ones the installer/game would be using..

Have you got SP2 installed? This seems to be a large cause of the problem.
If you are not already using DirectX 9.0c then an upgrade to that might be a help.

Hope you get her going soon..
Dave

[BCA]

K brand new computer here... its seen about two hours useage maximum!!!

Where do I get all of what you've just mentioned?? Im computer illiterate and not very trusting so do not wish to google away...

edit: Just been told both of those have been installed im panicing here!

>> Edited by BCA on Tuesday 6th December 19:34

[d-man]

Sounds suspiciously like a hardware fault to me too, especially as its a brand new PC.

Try running Memtest and see if that throws anything up - www.memtest86.com/
It won't necessarily mean a memory fault, could be bad PSU or even motherboard / CPU too, but it'll definitely tell you if it's core hardware or not

[BCA]

Just been told its still performing a few windows update things, so leaving it for a bit and will try again once they are complete...

It had best not be a hardware fault.

[MarkBarton]

BCA said:

im panicing here!

Don't panic. You've got an entire forum-full of people here (of whom I'm among the least qualified!) who know how to fix this stuff.

Let's start at the start. Post your spec, and I'm sure we can point you to the new sound and graphics drivers which should fix the problem.

If you don't know what sort of sound and video card you have click Start, Control Panel, and double-click System.

Go to the Hardware tab and click the Device Manager button. Click the + symbols to the left of "Display Adapters" and "Sound, video and game controllers", post what's listed under each, and we'll see where we go from there.

[BCA]

Display adapters
-Nvidia GeForce 6600

Sound video and game controllers
-Audio Codecs
-Legacy Audio drivers
-Legacy video capture devices
-Media Control devices
-MPU-401 Compatible MIDI device
-Realtek AC'97 Audio
-Standard Game Port
-Video Codecs

FWIW, I have a gig of ram/ huge hard drive and AMD Athlon 3500+ processor too?

[UncleDave]

Give this a thrash after the windows updates... the lastest Graphics Card driver...

www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_66.93

Dave.

[pvapour]

Stick with it BCA, these guys know their stuff and the games damn good to to good sore eyes........

[BCA]

UncleDave said:

Give this a thrash after the windows updates... the lastest Graphics Card driver... www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_66.93 Dave.

How do I open that file once downloaded dave?

[d-man]

Its not a link to a file directly, just a place you can download the file from.

The drive is an exe, double click it and it'll run.

[BCA]

school boy error...

see what you are dealing with here what an idiot. sorry all...

[BCA]

Righty, installed as requested. err... it ran through what looked to be the intro (mini, CSL etc etc) then came up with the same error as before and reset.

Any ideas?

[MarkBarton]

Did you uninstall, reboot and reinstall the game after updating the drivers? If the install (rather than the game itself) failed to complete last time because of driver problems, chances are just updating the driver won't fix it without a re-install...

[d-man]

Have you run any other games / done anything else particularly intensive? If not (or they do the same thing) then I'm pretty confident it's a hardware problem I'm afraid. Hard to say exactly what, but I'd say PSU and RAM are the most likely culprits. Its unlikely to be CPU or motherboard, as that would probably make it a whole lot less stable. Could also be the graphics card I suppose.

Try running Memtest, that'll rule out driver and graphics card issues and definitely show up a memory problem (might need to leave it running for a few hours). It might show up a PSU problem too.

[MarkBarton]

BCA said:

Sound video and game controllers ... -Realtek AC'97 Audio ...

Just had a thought - it looks like you've got onboard sound there. Has anyone tried running the game with onboard sound? The Required Spec on the box states "sound card", so that could be the root of the problem.

BCA, do you get any sound when the intro vid kicks in?

[MarkBarton]

d-man said:

Try running Memtest, that'll rule out driver and graphics card issues and definitely show up a memory problem (might need to leave it running for a few hours). It might show up a PSU problem too.

Yep, well worth doing.

[UncleDave]

I'm usign Onboard Sound... same thing Realtek AC'97 wotsit...

No probs for me

Dave.

[BCA]

yep sound works fine...

uninstalled and re-installed and I got through to the main menu's and such... then went to have a quick practice or whatever it is and it went to the error again.

BAH.

edit: im a little overwhelmed by the memtest link, anyone know what I need to download/ do?

>> Edited by BCA on Tuesday 6th December 22:58