Black boxes appear during movies

[ragehu 0]

Hello !

 

I have a problem with the movies in Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge

I can see huge black boxes appearing on the screen during playback

the movies. For example when I start Yuri, and the EA logo appears,

suddenly a lot of big black boxes cover it, and after that, the boxes are disappearing one by one.

 

I can see the same black boxes (artifacts?) in the in-game movies, too

 

I read this problem in another forum (some other people met the problem, too) . Maybe you have an idea to solve this problem

I have an updated XP SP2, my config is :

p4 2.8 GHZ, Nvidia 6600 GT with the latest driver, Direct X 9.0c

I haven't installed any codec packs, and I can't see this error

in the other games I have ( a lot of games are using BIK videos,

and those are working perfectly)

 

Thanks!

[Sonic 296]

Getting artifacts on screen usually means your system, or more specifically the video card, is getting to hot.

 

While you may have the latest driver for your video card you might not have the best one. Have a look manufacturers website and download their version of the NVIDIA drivers instead of using the ones from NVIDIA's site.

[ragehu 0]

It is not because of my video card is hot.

I have a lot of other games (Oblivion, Age of III, FEAR, Far Cry, etc)

Lot of them are using BIK videos too, and I don't have any problems,

just in the videos of RA2 and Yuri's Revenge

 

I am using the newest Nvidia driver for my 6600GT

 

Thanks.

[Wildshield 0]

I'll take a crack at this... try to adjust your read ahead optimization. System Properties/File System... slow it down. your drive might be reading to far ahead or just to fast to read such information. Worth a shot..

[Azrael 0]

Sonic might be right... Check your drivers, and also check your BIOS setup, my PC kept on crashing, the video card was explictly set to PCI instead of AGP. Check that.

[ragehu 0]

When I can play Oblivion or Tomb Raider Legends with next gen settings flawlessy, I don't think that my computer or my settings would be the problem... Maybe, this kind of video is too old for my system?

 

Maybe it could be a driver conflict?

I am using Nvidia 84.43 driver.

 

I will try to adjust my read ahead optimalizaton.

 

And I am not the only one with this problem

In another support forum, I found 3 topics about this.

But they have not found the solution.

[Wildshield 0]

I had a problem with it. Though once I did as suggested it all worked out fine. Don't know why really. As you said for other games everything runs fine. I'm guessing it's a EA product. So don't be surprised.