Issue with ONLY the opening cinematics.

[TheBlackVeil]

First and foremost -- the game runs fine, even with the graphics maxed out. Gameplay and in-game cinematics are not an issue.

The opening cinematics, meaning the GWI(?), Relic, et cetera, and then the movie are all super, super choppy. I say choppy and basically mean, every other minute I get a still-life of a Relic underwater mine or an awesome-looking Force Commander getting shot.

Any clues? This same issue happened to me with Homeworld 2(I stopped playing for a month, then went back to it), however in the case of Homeworld 2 the entire game became unplayable. I'd like to be able to watch the opening cinematics and play HW2 again. Thanks, in advance. =)

AMD Athlon 2700 2.2GHz

1024 MB Ram

nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 128 MB <-- nVidia Omega Drivers(v 1.6693)

nVidia nForce Audio

[TBS]

Make sure you have the latest DivX codec (divx.com).

[TheBlackVeil]

Just downloaded and installed the DivX codec. Still having issues with the introduction movie. It also affects the intro movies for the Order and Disorder campaigns on Winter Assault.

[TheBlackVeil]

Just removed the Omega drivers, cleaned up with Driver Cleaner, and changed to the latest nVidia drivers. Still no change in the cinematic near-non-existance-choppiness.

Does anybody else have some insights? Could sure use the help. =)

[TheBlackVeil]

Well. I s'pose nobody else has seen/heard of this problem. That sucks. I went through THQ's support and even though I made a point of conveying the fact that only the cinematics were choppy, they still came across as understanding it to be a graphical issue("turn down your graphics settings and run in windowed mode").

If anything turns up, someone give me a PM. I'd love to see the cinematics.

Thanks.

[TBS]

The movie is viewable here (http://www.dawnofwargame.com/downloads/index.php?1141693897) - only in crappy low res though.

As to getting it to work in the game for you, I guess it could be a drive issue - do you have another drive you could try?

[TheBlackVeil]

Nah, I only have a C drive. Stupid of me, considering the size, but when I installed the HD I was just so eager to have one that size that I threw it in and fired'r up.

Also, I can't see the intro' cinematics for either campaign in the Winter Assault expansion. =(

[TBS]

sorry, I meant disk drive - CD or DVD. If it was a harddrive issue I would expect you to be having much more serious problems.