DC-No longer plays intro

[Wasabi]

Hello, first post in Tech Assist.

Recently I extracted the engine.sga file to look at some of the camera.lua's. When I had done my fiddling I started Dark Crusade but it skipped straight to the 'Dawn of War: Dark Crusade | Please wait, Loading...' screen, bypassing the Relic Entertainment, THQ, NVIDIA and Dark Crusade Inroduction videos.

Just to establish the facts, no I do not have -dev activated, and the videos from the campaigns still work fine. Anyone know what I've done and how I can sort it?

[Edit]: As the sticky suggests, here is my warnings.log file:
21:04:29.89 DARKCRUSADE started at 2007-02-05 21:04
21:04:29.89 OS NT 5.1, 768MB Physical Memory
21:04:29.89 RUN-OPTIONS -forcehighpoly
21:04:29.89 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
21:04:29.89 USER {Removed}
21:04:29.89
21:04:37.85 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=unknown:f=15,m=4, Mode=SSE
21:04:37.85 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'
21:04:37.85 GAME -- Warning: Failed to map folder 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'.
21:04:37.85 GAME -- Warhammer, 1.11, Build 95990
21:04:37.85 GAME -- Available memory: 767MB RAM, 1828MB Pagefile
21:04:37.85 State::State - set socket send buffer to 131072
21:04:37.85 State::State - set socket receive buffer to 131072
21:04:37.85 HostState - 89.241.230.55:6112 / 89.241.230.55:6112
21:04:37.85 Session : Now Host
21:04:37.85 Session : We are now a Host
21:04:37.85 PeerState - 89.241.230.55:6112 / 89.241.230.55:6112
21:04:37.85 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
21:04:37.85 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
21:04:37.85 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
21:04:37.85 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = nv4_disp.dll Device = \\.\DISPLAY1 Desc = NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
21:04:37.85 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x0045 SubSys = 0x020410DE Rev = 0x00A1
21:04:37.85 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0006 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x000A Build = 0x20E5 (8421)
21:04:37.85 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-4305-11CF-8B53-0E2200C2CB35}
21:04:37.85 SPOOGE -- 295.00MB available texture memory
21:04:37.85 SPOOGE -- 295.00MB available texture memory
21:04:37.85 GAME -- Beginning FE
21:04:37.93 FE -- Loading front end.
21:04:37.93 FE -- Cursor hidden.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Initializing Mod dxp2, 1.0
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to load archive 'W40k\W40kDataGOTY.sga'
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Locale\english\Data'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Shared_Textures\Full'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Sound\Full'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Music'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Whm\High'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Locale\english\Data'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Shared_Textures\Full'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Sound\Full'.
21:04:42.84 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Whm\High'.
21:04:52.51 GAME -- Using player profile Wasabi
21:35:39.50 GAME -- Ending FE
21:35:39.50 GAME -- Shutdown quit
21:35:39.50 MOD -- Shutting down Mod 'dxp2'...
21:35:39.70 SPOOGE -- 294.00MB available texture memory
21:35:39.70 SPOOGE -- 295.00MB available texture memory
21:35:39.73
Application closed without errors

[ÜberJumper]

Check and see if the movie files are there.

-forcehighpoly might skip the movies as well. Did you try removing it?

[Wasabi]

Here is a screenshot of my 'Program Files/THQ/Dawn of War - Dark Crusade/Engine/Movies' folder:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/933/moviesfolderut7.th.png (http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=moviesfolderut7.png)

Are those all the movies?

I shall now try removing -forcehighpoly.

[Edit]: Removing -forcehighpoly made no difference I'm afraid. It still skipped straight to this screen:
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/5174/relic00034cg6.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=relic00034cg6.jpg)

It's not a major problem, though it is rather annoying. I love that intro :(.

[brother-horus]

make sure -nomovies isnt in the shortcut either.

[Wasabi]

If it was it wouldn't play the campaign movies either.

Here is how the shortcut looks at the moment:
"C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade\DarkCrusade.exe"

[ÜberJumper]

No, it would play campaign movies if it was in the shortcut, just not the opening ones.

It's not on anyway, you can tell from the warnings.log file.

You're not hitting escape or anything? That would bypass the movies.

oh... also isn't there an in game setting to allow you to skip the intro movies?

What are the contents of your local.ini file?

[Wasabi]

The local.ini file is as follows:
[global]
cameradetail=1
currentmoddc=dxp2
dynamiclights=3
event_detail_level=2
force_watch_movies=1
fullres_teamcolour=1
fx_detail_level=2
modeldetail=2
parentalcontrol=0
persistent_bodies=3
persistent_decals=2
playerprofile=Profile1
screenadapter=0
screenantialias=0
screendepth=32
screendevice=Dx9 : Hardware TnL
screengamma=10
screenheight=768
screennovsync=0
screenrefresh=0
screenwidth=1024
screenwindowed=0
shadowblob=1
shadowmap=1
shadowvolume=1
sound_enabled=1
sound_limitsamples=0
sound_nrchannels=64
sound_quality=2
terrainenablefowblur=2
texturedetail=2
unit_occlusion=0

[ÜberJumper]

There must be a file lying around that's preventing the movies from playing. I suspect it's probably an autoexec.lua file of some kind in the root DoW directory.

[Adimas]

Have you tried simply reinstalling the game? or is there some reason you don't want to?

[Wasabi]

I'll try that now. Just have to make sure I preserve my Banners, Badges, ReSkins, Army Schemes and Save Games :p.

[Edit]: Uninstalling, then re-installing Dawn of War: Dark Crusade did not work. It still skips straight to the loading screen. And that was before I put the Save Games, etc. back in.
This is quite odd.

[ÜberJumper]

After you uninstalled, did you delete the old install directory? Did you install to a new directory?

[Wasabi]

Same old directory, 'Program Files/THQ/Dawn of War - Dark Crusade'. I didn't manually delete it. I used 'Add or Remove Programs'.

[ÜberJumper]

Make sure you manually delete the directory. If the file that was causing it to not play was not added by the original install, it wouldn't have been deleted by add/remove programs.

[Wasabi]

Gah, stupid thing. Ok will try this now :p.

[Edit]: Ok, copied everything I wanted to keep, uninstalled with Add/Remove, deleted everything in the directory and the directory itself. Reinstalling :).

[Edit2]: It works perfectly! Thanks ÜberJumper, brother-horus and Adimas for your support and suggestions.


Love that intro so much :p.

[ÜberJumper]

You're welcome, it'd be interesting to know what file it was!

[iamaplayer]

Hi all!
Uberjumper, maybe the culprit was:
http://dawnofwar.filefront.com/file/No_Intro_Movie;33954
I hope this helps resolve future similar problems.