Ys II Complete on XP: Tech.

[undamned]

So I just finished Ys I Complete (w/ English patch) and wanted to jump into Ys II Complete (w/ English patch) only to find that it won't run

I don't get why Ys I would work fine, but not Ys II. Are there different updates that need to be run? The patches ran fine, so I'd think that it would have notified me of an incompatibility error if there was one.

The symptom I'm seeing is when I double click the Ys II icon the screen will turn black, like it's loading, but then all of a sudden I'm back to the Windows desktop. No error windows, nothing. Any thoughts? I'm running Windows XP SP2, btw.
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[soylent]

That's strange. I don't remember having any issues on my old machine running XP SP2. Try setting your screen to 16-bit. That worked for me when playing it on Vista.

[undamned]

No dice
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[psybuster]

It's trying to play a video file that you don't have or something. I remember this being a problem with the patch since the server for the video no longer exists/no longer hosts the file. Let me see if I can find it...

EDIT: Stripped from an older post by Seldane >_>

www.digitalsloth.net/Ys/YS2OP_1.AVI

Save to disk, throw into C:\FALCOM\YS12_CMP\ys2_win\data\ or wherever you happened to install the game.

[undamned]

Thanks! I'll try it tonight!

EDIT:

No worky

EDIT:

I'd been playing on a computer that was just getting me by, so last night I installed it on my new computer and it works I mean that's good and all, but I just hate it when you don't know why stuff doesn't work (or all of a sudden starts working, for that matter).

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[korzic]

I've never had this problem before, but there was a similar post on GameFAQs a couple months ago. That person ended up disabling a firewall that was apparently interfering with the game. Perhaps you were experiencing the same problem...?

[undamned]

Nope, no firewall. I'm convinced something with my ATI card/drivers weren't jiving w/ the game. I've run the game on two other computers w/ an Nvidia card just fine. Go figure