Barleyman

I did get the 4 AI achievement last night using similar strategy as outlined here. (maelstrom, 4x hard AI). TEC seems to be uniquely suitable to deal with multi AI opponents as their tendency to gang on you is mitigated by bigger cash income that lets you to sic pirates on AI guys most of the time with ease and even start a bidding war. Some exceptions were that I do not take Akkan as the colony frigate can jump in anyway while the Kol is finishing up last of the defenders. Kol is much

Too bad the 171.x drivers only support 9600GT and on anything else your mileage will wary + require a hacked install file.

Too hasty. That was just a fluke - After reboot SoaSE intro movie still kills the display driver even with ffdshow disabled. I spent some additional time trying anything I could think of such as getting latest nvidia driver (169.44) but result was the same every time - Have to perform hard reset and reboot. I'll just keep the intro movie disabled and that's that. Not like the animated stardock/ironclad logo is vital. You can always get the RAD video tools and watch the intro m

Guys, I may have a solution here. No, not to the bloody obnoxious stardock spam filter (have to submit support replies on web or they get killed) but on the full-screen mode kaput - I have had actually problems with BINK player before and then it helped when I nuked codec packs from my system. Now I have not installed any packs and even went on a cleaning rampage recently killing NERO and other malware packs. Still crash if intro movie is enabled, thought. <br/

I got email from the totalgaming.net support which suggested to install the AMD cpu driver. Nice, but I already had it installed. totalgaming.net spam filter has gone completely loco, thought. I can't send even plaintext email to them now with no links, no nothing.

I only removed the "intromovies" bit myself. I think introcinematic refers to the in-game stuff that works OK. In any case you can view the darn things in windowed mode so you see them once. Bink has caused lots of grief with lots of games. I wish the developers would use DivX for example..

[quote]but can't send my dxdiag dump file because their spam filter nukes it!Try zipping it.[/quote] I'm going to be difficult and RAR it.

Indeed there is. Actually in the settings file, that ironclad puts into a difficult place. Check the tech FAQ post for directions where it is and how to disable intro movies. https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=410&aid=174432 I have actually the same problem. Raised a ticket with stardock (IWL-534036), but can't send my dxdiag dump file because their spam filter nukes it! Very likely the problem is with the BINK player they use to show the intro with c