Fighting Steel Problem - Help Please

[Ghost Wolf]

Game installs fine and loads correctly, however, ANY time I click on the compass to change course I crash to desktop.

Help.

[Ghost Wolf]

AppName: fightingsteel.exe AppVer: 0.0.0.0 ModName: ddraw.dll
ModVer: 5.3.2600.2180 Offset: 00029e76

[frenzied]

This is a windows XP problem, the only way to get fighting steel to work under XP is to use Fighting Steel project. It also rebalances bits of the game and adds a whole lot of new ships.

http://forums.navalwarfare.org/index.php?

From there go to "NWS - Fighting Steel Project / Thunder at Sea " and then to the download page.
It is free

[sonar732]

Originally Posted by Ghost Wolf

Game installs fine and loads correctly, however, ANY time I click on the compass to change course I crash to desktop.

Help.

As the frenzied stated, NWS-FSP has an awesome mod for Fighting Steel.

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by frenzied

This is a windows XP problem

Specifically, it's a Service Pack 2 AND DirectX 9.0c problem. Installing either or both is what causes the crashing. Game actually works fine with XP without these installed.

[Hood]

My Fighting Steel crashes to desktop also,but this is with Win 98SE
Have reset SYSTEMCHECK to = 0 in DBZLIB.INI
It says: No 2D Hardware device. Resorting to 2D HEL
Error in creating HEL device
Sorry there was an error in initialising DirectDraw
Please make sure DirectDraw 6.0 or greater is installed
I have DirectX 8.1 insalled and Rage Pro Graphics with driver update
pc is an old Pent III @ 480MHz and 384Mb RAM and plenty of space on a 20Gb HDD
apart from "BIN IT" has anyone any advice
cheers
Hood

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Hood

I have DirectX 8.1 insalled and Rage Pro Graphics with driver update

Is the Rage Pro an Nvidia card? If so, it's the drivers. Latest Nvidia drivers break FS and FSP.

[Hood]

Sorry, slight error in original text, should have read reset SYSTEMCHECK to = 1 in DBZLIB.INI file.
No graphis card, built-in Rage Pro , latest driver from ATI (wme j5_30-b02) appeared to load ok
Getting brief message on bootup : Error loading driver NDI SHLP. SYS
Which surely cannot bode well?
But immediately afterwards Win 98SE fires up with no obvious ill effects
What I dont know is what program this driver originated in , and is this what is causing the fault
cheers
Hood

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by Hood

latest driver from ATI (wme j5_30-b02) appeared to load ok

From that filename, it looks like you downloaded a Windows ME driver, not a '98 driver. Fortunately, it is ATI, so the latest drivers should work fine. I have them for my card, and FSP plays perfectly.
I would suggest making double sure you have the correct drivers, and reinstalling them. If it still doesn't work, either downgrade to an older driver, or install DirectX 9.0c. The latest drivers may require it. Other than that, I'm stumped. Maybe wipe, and do a complete reinstall of your entire system?