C&C 3: Tiberian Wars problem

[FishPolice]

A mate of mine has been running this on his laptop. He says it used to run fine but now crashes before getting to the start screen with a message saying something about direct X & graphics card.
I've not yet had a chance to look at his laptop but wondered if anyone out there has experienced anything similar. Seems odd that it used to work fine & no longer does. All his other games seem to run fine -except Spellforce2. Perhaps Spellforce2 has done something to his OS?
No idea of his spec btw (sorry).

[edit] sorry -should have posted this in PC Games section. Thought I was. oops

 

[Schnippzle]

Id say re-install both games and then re-install drivers to see if that works.

 

[Atomic]

I have a x1950 and an average PC. I've managed to play a bit of CnC3 and when it does play it plays fine. However, I do get Direct3d error messages and various crashes pretty much every time I run the game.

If you take a look at the Technical Help part of the Command and Conquer forum ( the official one) there's like a 50 + page thread of people complaining about this and yet no patch seems to of fixed it. I can't play Cn3 due to this as there's no point playing for 5 mins only for it to crash.

Shame really.

 

[schumi84]

Have just bought this game, running on the spec in sig and is pretty much on full detail on a 17" TFT.

It seems to fly along, even with numerous units on the screen and stuff happening, very pleased with it, especially now it is so cheap (in comparison to what it was).