Video problems Thread - War of the Human Tanks

Hope this is the right place for this.

First, nice game and it looks like i will buy it.

Now to the Problem.
The ingamevideos ( the stuff in the gamefolder with yukke at the end ) are not playing in the game...or better said, the Sound plays but i dont see a video...only a light"blue" screen.
First i thought that a codec is missing, but the files are playing properly in SMplayer ( with mplayer ) and in the Windows Media Player ( after renaming them to wmv ) too.

Any idea how this could be solved?
System Specs
Win 7 32
P4 2,6Ghz
Geforce 6600GT
1,5GB Ram
( i know... the PC is a bit older....)

Thanks

Hello!
There shouldn't be anything wrong with your specs. This sounds like a codec problem as you suspected. Probably something minor which the video players can fix by themselves.
I'd recommend first creating a system restore point, and then updating your video codecs using one of the many available free codec packs.

Please let us know if that worked for you.

Thanks for the reply.
Tried it out with the CCCP ( Cccp-project.net ) but it seems that the codecpack ( aka ffdshow filter ) is not used for the game ( works fine...tried it with the Media Player and a 10p encoded MKV and a flv which both got used by ffdshow ) , so the result is the same.

I was googling the problem and such issues seem fairly common especially towards older PCs, but there isn't one single identifiable cause. A common suggestion seems to be updating your intel chipset drivers. Your video card is also borderline in whether it might have too little memory, or too old drivers.

You can try checking/unchecking the various options under the game's settings->startup options to see if they have any effect on the situation.

If you have older codec packs installed, you should also try uninstalling all of those - Windows7 should include all the codecs you need for the game.

Which videos have you tried to view so far? Start-up logo videos and OP/ED videos, I imagine?
If all else fails, you can try K-lite codec pack. It's not a great one, but reportedly it has an effect on .wmv playback which has helped some people. Uninstall CCCP first, it shouldn't help you either way.

Don't let this give you the wrong impression though. The game has no compatibility problem with CCCP Codex. I have it installed as well and game, with all it's movies, is running smoothly. I suspect this is a result of a faulty setting in one of your codex settings instead. Game's videos are in Windows Media Video format, they should play without problems.

A common suggestion seems to be updating your intel chipset drivers. Your video card is also borderline in whether it might have too little memory, or too old drivers.

Edited by: Deadsign

Sorry to hear none of the suggestions have worked out so far.
A few more questions if you would.

Which videos have you tried to view so far? Start-up logo videos and OP/ED videos?
Have you tried running the game both full screen and windowed?
Also just checking, but you're not using dual monitor, right?

Edited by: PhleBuster

PhleBuster wrote:
1. Which videos have you tried to view so far? Start-up logo videos and OP/ED videos?
2. Have you tried running the game both full screen and windowed?
2. Also just checking, but you're not using dual monitor, right?

1. I cant exactly tell which is what......but i tried more or less every yukke file in the media players ( why have you guys made different Versions for the whole startup/OP/ED Stuff )...but in the game itself i only saw the startup/Intro ....or better said i did not saw them...
2. Started the game the first time in Fullscreen and played till the intro, after that i switched to window mode....it is easier to test that way if stuff you tried worked or not..
3. No...not really. I have a 2nd Monitor ( my TV ) connected to the PC, but i only switch to it when i want to watch some stuff.

Maybe i will try out a windows repair installation....and see if that helps somewhat.

Thanks for the answers. Nothing new comes to mind, but that helped rule out some possible causes. Reason I asked about 2nd monitor is that this kind of issue has occurred for some people who had two monitors set to clone desktop. But if you're not cloning it, that shouldn't be the cause either.

I hope windows repair works. If the problem is in your WMV codecs, that's indeed pretty much the only way to fix it.
Godspeed!

PhleBuster wrote: I hope windows repair works. If the problem is in your WMV codecs, that's indeed pretty much the only way to fix it.
Godspeed!

It did not.
Seems that it is working different then in Win XP....at least it told me that it did not found stuff to repair....and i did not want to reinstall the OS.

And im not quite sure if it is a codec problem....otherwise the videos should generate a failure in the WMP too....they use the same codecs and it would be funny that they only make a problem in other Applications.

Just in case that it might could help ( i dont think so.....but who knows ) i add a DXdiag to this post.
Dl.dropbox.com

This turned out quite troublesome. I've asked around but unfortunately haven't found any new suggestions either.

It's possible for an "updated" codec to cause issues, even if it's not technically broken. So just because windows didn't find anything to fix, doesn't mean there isn't something a reinstall would do. And reinstalling Windows seems like pretty much the only way to fix WMV codec issues. So the ultimate fix would probably be to either reinstall Windows, or install an older version of Windows (XP, I suppose) on the side which might be better compatible with your PC components.

But please try with the free K-lite codec pack too; as previously stated, it has helped some people. If it doesn't work for you, just uninstall it again.

Edit: Just checking, but you've tried reinstalling the demo too, right?

Edited by: PhleBuster

PhleBuster wrote: Edit: Just checking, but you've tried reinstalling the demo too, right?

i tried a verify files....but i have no idea if Desura did something or not....will try a reinstall.

And i ask this just in case.....could the decode/encode ddls in the game folder cause trouble?
I dont know if they only link to the system codecs, or are doing the job which they are named after......

And i saw ingame in the system info window that there it says as OS Win XP SP1....is that only because the game/engine has no data on 7, or does it really think that XP is used?

Hi, I checked my info and it shows XP as well (I'm on Win7), so I think it's just the latest option that's been coded into the info output.

We'll mail the original developers tomorrow as well and ask if they have ever run into this particular issue.

Thanks for your support.

A Small side Question.
Has the game any important ingamemovies which tell parts of the story?
Or are there only the startup/OP/ED ( as far as i have seen the OP/ED is mostly only there for Credits )?

BTW: Preordered it a few minutes ago.

No, although there are many different ones, all the movies are pretty much OPs and ED credits. So you don't lose anything critical if you can't watch them properly.

And in that case, thank YOU for the support .

PhleBuster wrote: No, although there are many different ones, all the movies are pretty much OPs and ED credits. So you don't lose anything critical if you can't watch them properly.

Good.
If my problem is not solved ( and i guess it wont ) i just mark it as a minor inconvinience then.......^^

PhleBuster wrote:
And in that case, thank YOU for the support .

regardless of the problem, i would have bought it sooner or later............i just happend now sooner......^^

Thanks for not giving up in frusturation Deadsign . It's a nice game, would have been a shame. I hope your issue gets solved soon enough.

echoMateria wrote: Thanks for not giving up in frusturation Deadsign.

That is one thing i would not do....

Maybe it will get solved.......and as long it does not happen on a majority of stuff ( at the moment that only happend with this game....and the Intro of Civ 5.....^^ ) i can life with it.
I guess i will try to ask in 1-2 other Forums if someone has had such a problem, or may know a solution besides the stuff i already tried.

Now i only have to wait until the game is released....hate waiting after preorders for the games to unlock......^^

When I was still using a single core P4 3GHZ, the in-game movies of some games were stuttering when I watched them in-game. They played find when I watched them outside the game, but inside the game they sometimes had sound delaying half a second to one and sometimes skip a frame or two. Civilization V was one of them, Starcraft 2 another. Even if your PC is enough to run a game on XP, it may not be enough to run that game on Windows 7, because W7 uses more resources. You might want to try to install XP on a separate partition to play some games that doesn't run as smooth on W7 if you don't plan to upgrade soon. After I bought an affordable quad core AMD I never had those stutters or audio delays again.

I am also experiencing the same problem. Using windows XP and I have the latest CCCP installed. When I try to watch the movie files themselves some work like credit ones, but the OP video after the prologue says I am missing a codec or filter and only plays sound :/

Help pls!

Hello Wktk!
Looks like you'll need to update your Windows Media Player; some of the videos won't work in whichever version of the media player is included with XP. I've tested updating to Windows Media Player 11 to fix this issue, but possibly an earlier version would already do the same job.

Worked like a charm I see the beautiful video T-T

Thanks a ton!

Good News Everyone.
I got the Videos working with the help of ffdshow tryouts ( Ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net no idea why those get used for the game, but the ffdshow stuff in the codecpacks not ).
And there i only had to uncheck the boxes for YV12 & NV12 S1.directupload.net and now it encodes them as RGB32
So it seems that the Windows codecs ( ffdshow is using the wmv9 codecs too ) give the files a wrong output format which is not supported by my Card ( or Monitor or whatever ) .

Glad that i solved that issue, and again thanks for your help in here.

That's great Deadsign!
Glad to hear you got it working, and this may help others with a similar setup.