ug.. game crashes to desktop ; ; need help.

[Jei]

I just installed fantasy earth. It installed and started fine. The openning movie play, and proceed to the title screen with the start and exit to choose. When I click start, my screen goes black for a few seconds before I get an error window. It doesn't say anything much, just "POL has encountered an error" and the usual sending report stuff.

I format my C drive and made a clean install of windows. And it still happens.

I talked to a friend here, he said it can be the graphic card fail to display the game's setting, or I need a japanese windows. Which one do you think is more likely the case?

about the first case, I think my system pass the minimal requirement. But still not sure about graphic card
win XP professional service pack 2
P4 2.40G 512MB RAM
geforce 4 TI 4400 with 128MB RAM
FE website mentioned "direct X 8.1 something card" is geforce 4 compatible or too old?

Second case about japanese window I'm kind of worry.
My window's location, region, default language for non-unicode are all set to japanese.
but despite all those settings, my windows XP is still an english version originally.
Is there like a special windows made exclusively in japanese that I'll need?
On FE website it mentioned
OS Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP 日本語版
I'm not sure what the last kanji is.


Link http://www.playonline.com/fe/envi/envi.html

[neighbortaru]

Re: ug.. game crashes to desktop ; ; need help.

iirc the geforce 4 is Direct X 8 compliant.

do you have any firewalls (software or hard) running? or need to open some ports on your router?

[Jei]

Re: ug.. game crashes to desktop ; ; need help.

yea there's the windows' default firewall running. Do you think that is the case? disabling it caused my windows to instantly affected by virus before
trying to look for router port information on the web. can't find any yet. and can't read ><

[neighbortaru]

Re: ug.. game crashes to desktop ; ; need help.

i trust windows firewall about as far as I can throw my xbox >.<
try using kerio: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm

[Jei]

Re: ug.. game crashes to desktop ; ; need help.

I disabled windows firewall for a moment and run the game. still crashes ><
Oh and I just know, it doesn't matter whether I choose play or exit, both will crash my game

edit - grab an ATI X1300 from friend's house to try it out. still crashing.