DOW has little chunks of it flickering on and off when i play

[TheAvatar3055]

Okay i used the NO-CD crak thingy and played a bit, NO PROBLEMS. a few days later i instaled C&C Generals & Zero:hour (BTW it sucks more than i remember, proly cuz i got DOW to compair it to) AND THAT NIGHT i play DOW and it has triangles of it all over the screan flickering on and off... the top of the screan is going nuts! Any-who i was insane enough to make a Coppy of DOW to use the NO-CD crack on, and it dose the same thing on the NO NO-CD crack version that i started off with.

I'll put in a good word with the chaos gods for who ever helps me with this. :werd:

Any way...

W40K started at 2005-03-30 04:00
OS NT 5.1, 1024MB Physical Memory
RUN-OPTIONS
WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\Copy (2) of THQ\Dawn of War
USER Avatar

04:00:47.2 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=AMD Athlon 64:f=15,m=4, Mode=SSE
04:00:47.2 GAME -- Warhammer, 1.20, Build 61639.45376
04:00:47.2 GAME -- Available memory: 1023MB RAM, 2412MB Pagefile
04:00:47.2 State::State - set socket send buffer to 131072
04:00:47.2 State::State - set socket receive buffer to 131072
04:00:47.2 HostState - 192.168.1.101:6112 / 192.168.1.101:6112
04:00:47.2 Session : Now Host
04:00:47.2 Session : We are now a Host
04:00:47.2 PeerState - 192.168.1.101:6112 / 192.168.1.101:6112
04:00:47.2 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
04:00:47.2 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
04:00:47.3 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
04:00:49.4 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = nv4_disp.dll Device = \\.\DISPLAY1 Desc = NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
04:00:49.4 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x0322 SubSys = 0x12801682 Rev = 0x00A1
04:00:49.4 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0006 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x000A Build = 0x1A25 (6693)
04:00:49.4 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-4062-11CF-176F-8A3200C2CB35}
04:00:49.5 SPOOGE -- 423.00MB available texture memory
04:00:49.5 SPOOGE -- 423.00MB available texture memory
04:00:50.1 GAME -- Beginning FE
04:00:51.5 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:relic_intro.lua'
04:00:52.9 MOVIE -- Closing movie 'movies:relic_intro.lua'
04:00:52.9 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:dow_intro.lua'
04:00:53.7 MOVIE -- Closing movie 'movies:dow_intro.lua'
04:00:54.1 MOD -- (mod manager) W40k, 1.0
04:00:54.5 MOD -- (mod manager) Warning, failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Shared_Textures\%TEXTURE-LEVEL%'
04:00:54.5 MOD -- (mod manager) Warning, failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Sound\%SOUND-LEVEL%'
04:00:54.5 MOD -- (mod manager) Warning, failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Whm\%MODEL-LEVEL%'
04:01:01.4 Banner 'BANNERS:avatarbadgeblack.tga' is not 64x96 pixels!
04:01:01.6 GAME -- Using player profile Avatar
04:01:11.9 Skirmish - loading badge 'BADGES:avatarbadge.TGA' for player (0)
04:01:11.9 Skirmish - loading banner 'BANNERS:avatarbanner.TGA' for player (0)
04:01:11.9 Skirmish - loading badge 'BADGES:avatarbadge.TGA' for player (1)
04:01:11.9 Skirmish - loading banner 'BANNERS:avatarbanner.TGA' for player (1)
04:01:11.9 APP -- Game Start
04:01:11.9 GAME -- Ending FE
04:01:12.0 GAME -- Beginning mission 2P_BATTLE_MARSHES (1 Humans, 1 Computers)
04:01:12.0 GAME -- Recording game
04:01:13.0 MOD -- Loading Win Condition(DATA:Scar/WinConditions/ANNIHILATE.SCAR)
04:01:13.3 GAME -- Preloading all models
04:01:13.7 RENDER ANIM -- Art/EBPs/: Unable to open file!
04:01:16.4 GAME -- Applying Team Colours
04:01:22.7 GAME -- Precaching Events
04:01:31.0 GAME -- Loading completed (19 seconds)
04:01:31.0 SIM -- Setting SyncErrorChecking level to Low
04:01:31.0 GAME -- Starting mission...
04:01:39.9 SimulationController::Pause 1
04:01:54.1 APP -- Game Stop
04:01:54.1 GAME -- Ending mission (Abort)
04:01:54.1 SimulationController::Pause 0
04:01:54.7 GAME -- Beginning FE
04:02:33.7 GAME -- Ending FE
04:02:33.7 MOD -- (mod manager) shutting down
04:02:34.3 SPOOGE -- 422.00MB available texture memory
04:02:34.3 SPOOGE -- 423.00MB available texture memory
04:02:34.3 GAME -- Available memory: 1023MB RAM, 2412MB Pagefile
04:02:34.4 HostState - 192.168.1.101:6112 / 192.168.1.101:6112
04:02:34.4 PeerState - 192.168.1.101:6112 / 192.168.1.101:6112
04:02:34.4 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
04:02:34.4 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
04:02:34.4 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
04:02:34.5 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = nv4_disp.dll Device = \\.\DISPLAY1 Desc = NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
04:02:34.5 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x0322 SubSys = 0x12801682 Rev = 0x00A1
04:02:34.5 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0006 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x000A Build = 0x1A25 (6693)
04:02:34.5 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-4062-11CF-176F-8A3200C2CB35}
04:02:34.8 SPOOGE -- 434.00MB available texture memory
04:02:34.8 SPOOGE -- 434.00MB available texture memory
04:02:35.0 GAME -- Beginning FE
04:02:36.4 MOD -- (mod manager) W40k, 1.0
04:02:36.5 MOD -- (mod manager) Warning, failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Shared_Textures\%TEXTURE-LEVEL%'
04:02:36.5 MOD -- (mod manager) Warning, failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Sound\%SOUND-LEVEL%'
04:02:36.5 MOD -- (mod manager) Warning, failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Whm\%MODEL-LEVEL%'
04:02:43.2 Banner 'BANNERS:avatarbadgeblack.tga' is not 64x96 pixels!
04:02:43.3 GAME -- Using player profile Avatar
04:02:47.3 GAME -- Ending FE
04:02:47.3 MOD -- (mod manager) shutting down
04:02:47.9 SPOOGE -- 431.00MB available texture memory
04:02:47.9 SPOOGE -- 433.00MB available texture memory

Application closed without errors

Have at it...

And Thanks a ton.

[ExplodingGeckos]

Wow, what a great thing to advertise...you used a CD crack to invalidate part of the copyright protection.

[ÜberJumper]

Well... we frown upon no-cd cracks, they are illegal, but we don't ban for them (yet).

This doesn't sound like a problem specifically with Dawn of War, more like that your video card is going tits up.

Try updating your video card drivers, see if that helps.

[Lone Canadian]

Same exact problem happens to me every so often. (Though without the No CD's) just download the lastest drivers or most recent ones agin and reinstall them. Seems to fix the problem for me. Eveyertime, and yes it has happened before and relic has gotten an email with screen shots and such.

[Banaticus]

It happens on some of our computers occasionally -- but only when I've opened the program up after closing it earlier. It seems like I can play DoW all I want, but if I close DoW I have to restart the computer in order to start DoW back up again. Restarting has been the only solution that I've found so far.

[komninosm]

NO-CD cracks aren't illegal, it's a grey issue. Even if 'some' game companies make you sign some stuff, they don't always superceed certain consumer rights. Damn capitalists, think outside the box!
Anyway the poster didn't even point to a no-cd crack site or whatever. Not that it's hard to find.

[TheAvatar3055]

Well i'm not doing anything illegal with it, i'm just tierd of runing across the yard to play lan games. and dont have the money to buy another CD. if its REALY illegal i'll take it off Quick.

I can use the exercise.