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Old 10-26-2002, 11:04 AM   #1
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Unhappy warcraft 3 error!!Help!!

The ending movie of this movie cannot play......it said something about GAME.DLL error and later generate a error log file in the directory.
The other campaign's movie clip runs fine until this campaign.It drive me nuts as the game doesn't "ENDS" well......
Can anyone help me to figure out what's going on here????
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Old 10-30-2002, 02:37 PM   #2
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sorry im just as if not more retarded than you on this one (not saying your retarded but you dont know how to fix and neither do i) anyway i have no clue i get those all the time with my games and i never knew what they meant or how to ghet rid of them sorry
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Old 10-30-2002, 02:46 PM   #3
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did you try copying the file off the CD and replacing the one in your Warcraft folder?

...Just an idea.


Oh, and if the error isn't two miles long, maybe you should post it here.
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Old 10-30-2002, 04:52 PM   #4
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Can you play the movie manually?

I think Blizzard still uses Smacker, Bink, or whatever the codec has evolved to now, but you still should be able to find the videos. They might be wrapped up in a structure, but they are there.

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Can you play the movie manually?

I think Blizzard still uses Smacker, Bink, or whatever the codec has evolved to now, but you still should be able to find the videos. They might be wrapped up in a structure, but they are there.

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I have use Windows Media Player 7 to open it but it said that the player require some sort of filter to be able to play it......
Any player u could suggest??The other movie runs fine except the elves this one......
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Old 10-31-2002, 07:06 PM   #6
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Does your statement mean you can play the other movies with Microsoft Media but not the elves', or that you can play the other movies inside Warcraft III, but not the elves'? Because if MS Media will play the others, but not the elves', then obviously your CD has problems.

Anyway, as I said, Blizzard probably still use the Smacker/Bink codecs. Smacker has been around for a while (more than 7 years) and has been used in many, many games. I have only had one experience working with it, but I liked it. Bink is an evolution of it, or that is my educated guess. A simple search for "Bink" would probably get you the site.

Also, Blizzard usually puts their data into containers. Starcraft and Diablo II used MPQ files, so I would assume they still do. Thus, you will probably need something to view the container and then extract the movies (probably .bik). Let me know how it goes.

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I've downloaded the bink and smacker but neither of it works!!
The elf movie file still have the same error............need some sort of combination filter?geezzzzzz...

now I'll try extract the MPQ files...
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Old 11-05-2002, 12:37 PM   #8
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Hmm - I may be reading too much into this - but after reading your other thread, I have to ask if is this an original CD or a CD-R? If it's a CD-R, all bets are off and we can't really assist you any further on this.
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