TR3 vids freeze after 1 second

[craziej2k]

okies, I've installed TR3 before on this pc and played it fine. I then tried to use the Nvidia display control panel application profile thingy to further improve the graphics of the game, well it froze the game and I had to uninstall TR3, remove thr profile from the display control panel. I reinstalled TR3 but the same problem happened. I got frusterated, uninstalled TR3 (again) went through the registry and deleted all references to TR3. I reinstalled it afterwards and the game works fine but the FMV's always freeze after about a second which they didn't before. does anyone have any ideas on how I can get the vids to run properly?
Crazie J

ps. I used the patch each time I installed the game

[Sophia Leigh]

Have you tried turning the resolution down on the Nvidia display control panel application profile thingy as that seems to be where your problems started :)

[craziej2k]

no luck :( I thought of something thou, would updating graphics card drivers affect it?

[craziej2k]

Ok I've just tried using the FMV viewer from tombraiderchronicles.com and the problem happens with that as well with the FMV's off the hard drive and CD. I'm guessing that it's a driver issue. Any ideas?

[craziej2k]

ok, it's the sound. If I mute the FMV player the videos work perfectly. Now if I could just find out why

[Trinity34]

Could what you were working on before change some of the settings for the game?

Try windows 98 compatibility mode and/or making sure the cd is in the first cd drive.

[craziej2k]

woot! it works. I can't believe it was that simple, thank you :) I owe you bigtime

[Trinity34]

I owe you bigtime

Ok I will pm you the details of where to send money.... :D :D

[MADVDPRODUCTIONS]

I'm using ATI RAdeon X300. I'm playing Tomb Raider 3 and the FMV cut scenes arent working correctly. How do i set it to Windows 98 modE? PLease help! :mad:

[craziej2k]

right click on the shortcut to tomb3.exe, go to properties, select the compatibility tab, tick "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" and choose Windows 98. if you don't have a shortcut you can do the same for the actual tomb3.exe file

[Treeble]

I'm also experiencing troubles with TR3 and FMVs. They won't run at all?!

I'm replaying the games and TR1-TR2 worked properly on this XP SP2 machine, and I started TR3 and I did see the Eidos FMV, then it skipped to the ring menu. I quit the game and checked, it's on compatibility to W98 and I think it has the XP patch installed (I installed them all at once and tested them back then), but no matter what I do, the FMVs won't come back?! :eek:

TIA

[Treeble]

I've just checked and the new TR3 XP patches say they'll also copy audio and FMVs to Hard Drive, don't I have an alternative to this? I can't afford to lose additional 300mb when the game runs fine from CD, I just need the game to play the FMVs. Please help! TIA :)

[craziej2k]

try copying one of the FMVs to your hard driveand use the FMV viewer from tombraiderchronicles.com to see if it's your disk that's not working properly

[Serv]

thanks for information