W:A used to start, now it doesn't.

[telegraph]

Hi, I had Armageddon installed with all the right patches and such, and it worked fine for quite a few months on winXP. then, i try to launch it, and it tells me 'armageddon has encountered a fault and needs to close', every time. so i reinstall, and it works twice, then same thing happens.

Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem??

thanks,

mike*

[Alien King]

After double-clicking the exe file, keep clicking the mouse rapidly. If it works, you'll see the logo screens (you can stop clicking then).

[telegraph]

that worked...how the hell did that work? is it going to be fixed in the next patch? what actually went wrong?

[MadEwokHerd]

How AK managed to come up with that I don't know, but it's needed to skip the intro, particularly the worm song part of it, on Wine to prevent sound problems (or probably a crash in my case). I've never heard of similar problems on Windows, and if it is related to sound you'll probably have problems in other parts of the game.

[Alien King]

What it actually is, I don't know. It sounds Intro related though. When I had the problem, it sometimes did work. Then I found the solution.

[KRD]

Wouldn't a much tidier solution be adding "/nointro" after the target line of your shortcut, though?

[Alien King]

Wouldn't a much tidier solution be adding "/nointro" after the target line of your shortcut, though?

Probably. I don't get it anymore.