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Epic: Final Liberation, anyone got it to work in XP?

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First post, by Namarie

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Well, one of those days when I felt I wanted to fire up Epic again, just bought a new computer with XP, and gawd dang nabbit, hardly any of my old gems work! :\

So, I wonder, is there anyone out there that has gotten it to work under XP?

The game launches, but it crashes after intromovie with some strange memory read error, no compability mode works..

I can't see the specific error since the error window just blinks past before it dumps back to the desktop.

Anyone?

I searched but nobody seems to have wondered anything before.. it used to run in both DOS, win95 and strangely enough winsuck ME.

*edit*

Managed to snapshot the error window..

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Application Error: C:\finallib\epic40k.exe

The instruction at 0046c607 referenced memory at 02F6000
The memory could not be written

Click Ok to terminate the application
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Last edited by Namarie on 2003-05-05, 20:44. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 2, by Namarie

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Got it working, courtesy to the poster over at underdogs, posting in case anyone else wonders.. 😀

Warhammer Final Liberation -winxp

The reason that you couldn't find epic.ini is because the game creates it after it's first run. But you can't get the first run to work because it doesn't like the .smk files.

Catch-22.

This is epic.ini....

[Options]
MusicVol=100
FX_Volume=127
MV_Volume=127
UseGrid=0
DoVideo=0
WatchAI=0
AutoSave=1

...just open notepad and copy and paste the above, save the file as ""epic.ini"" (make sure it doesn't end up as epic.ini.txt) and place it in the game's main directory.

And the game should work.

Good Luck!

Reply 2 of 2, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by Namarie Warhammer Final Liberation -winxp
The reason that you couldn't find epic.ini is because the game creates it after it's first run. But you can't get the first run to work because it doesn't like the .smk files.

Very odd, as I have yet to have an Smacker (.SMK) problem with other games.

Apparently, however, that's the case for this title:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/compdet.php?id=9583

I know that Smacker has gone through a lot of revisions. Seems that it should be possible for someone to swap out the code...