Can not get past Intro

AlanSmith · Post by **AlanSmith** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:09 am

Hi,

I've been wanting to play Silkroad for awhile, so I decided to download it, first issue I got was the "this client can be used after euro update" that was easy enough fixed just turned of my firewall.

The second problem was the ??? error, I fixed that to buy downloading all windows updates, having the latest nvidia driver 163 for the geforce 8 series.

Now my newest problem is this which I seem not to be able to fix. I load up the game by clicking start on the launcher, it gets to the intro video, and as soon as it gets over the boats it freezes, the music continues to play but the video just stops, I never get to the login screen. Now I was wondering does anyone have any idea how to fix it, I've tried with sound off, i've tried with different resoloutions, i've tried different brightnesses, even different languages, I've even tried letting it be the only program running and still no luck.

If anyone knows how to fix it please, please let me know.

Kind Regards,

Alan Smith

AlanSmith · Post by **AlanSmith** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:53 am

BUMP

I don't know if this helps any but last time I tried to load it, when the video froze i double clicked and I heard a sound like what would happen if you pressed a button ingame, so I think that the login screen has loaded behind the frozen intro.

EDIT: Alright, as soon as the client starts to show the video i click and it brings up server select, i select the server i want, then it goes to the login, now i fill in my details click connect and then it freezes, I've tried the thing about the language and that didn't solve it.

xzaz · Post by **xzaz** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:26 am

Windows version?

AlanSmith · Post by **AlanSmith** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:46 am

Windows XP Service Pack 2

xzaz · Post by **xzaz** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:38 am

Cuz your vid stops but your music plays it sounds like a vid/driver graphic isue. Are you sure you got the lastes version? Tried to reinstall DX?

AlanSmith · Post by **AlanSmith** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:05 am

Yes i'm sure, I've got Dx9c, and the latest nVidia 8500GT driver.

xzaz · Post by **xzaz** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:43 am

xzaz wrote:Tried to reinstall DX?

AlanSmith · Post by **AlanSmith** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:07 pm

xzaz · Post by **xzaz** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:28 pm

Dunno what is is, but try pressen Windowskey (or alt tab) and then swith back to Sro..

Wierd problem though

A look at this:
http://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=34702 There is a a similar problem with a posible solution. maby you can try that.

AlanSmith · Post by **AlanSmith** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:21 am

already did try that. didn't work

cin · Post by **cin** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:32 pm

tried redownloading/reinstalling client?
client from other downloadsite?

Casey613 · Post by **Casey613** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:10 pm

It's your video card. I had an ATI EAX550HM-512, which allowed me to play SilkRoad with hardly any computer lag (excluding Hotan, of course), after certain graphics update last year, I was unable to see the game login screen, and could only hear the background theme, I had to get a new card.

Also, the other day I had to uninstall a lot of crap because SilkRoad would freeze and/or give me an error alike with the '??????' one, I don't know if it happend due to lack of memory but try uninstalling useless stuff and games you don't play anymore, just a guess.

AlanSmith · Post by **AlanSmith** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:23 am

i have a nVidia 8500GT... its one of the newest from nVidia...

oh and I can see the login screen... it just freezes on me.

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:38 pm

AlanSmith wrote:i have a nVidia 8500GT... its one of the newest from nVidia...

oh and I can see the login screen... it just freezes on me.

Try older drivers..