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A Farewell to dragons A Farewell to Dragons is a classic Action/RPG that takes place in the universe based on the fantasy book written by famous Russian writers Sergey Lukyanenko and Nikolay Perumov.

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Old 03-02-2010, 07:18 AM
Sneaksie Sneaksie is offline
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Did you try to defrag the HDD partition where the game is installed? Either this or a codec problem. I would uninstall all third party codec packs like k-lite and try playing the videos, then reinstall codecs and try playing the videos again.
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Old 03-02-2010, 09:18 AM
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It's not an HDD issue because I when I used the RAD player, I selected the option to load the entire file into memory before playback.

I only had one additional codec installed, Xvid. It shouldn't matter since it's not used, but I uninstalled just for testing purposes. It didn't make a difference.

I now realize there are only 5 movies. 3 "logo" files, 1 intro, and 1 outro. So, with that knowledge, I just used RAD to convert the intro into an AVI and watched it. Since I won't run into any movie issues during normal gameplay, I'll just go ahead and start playing!

I guess in the end, I can just forget about it.
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Old 03-02-2010, 01:53 PM
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What happens if you replace the game's binkw32.dll with the one included with your rad player?
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Old 03-02-2010, 06:54 PM
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The RAD tools don't include a binkw32.dll.

From the Bink FAQ:

"Bink DLLs are NOT replacable! If you copy a different version of the DLL onto another pre-compiled application (like a game), then you are likely to crash. The RAD Video Tools don't even have the Bink DLL built into them, so this will have absolutely no effect. Please contact your game maker for support."
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Old 03-02-2010, 09:33 PM
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Duuh! My bad I had completely forgotten that.
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Old 12-01-2010, 06:28 PM
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I can't get the game to start either.

Whenever I click the shortcut, only the game's directory pops up. And whenever I try to run the exe file, it just starts and immediately exits.

I tried giving it rights via the firewall/AV, but this changes nothing.

Any fix for this?
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Old 12-06-2010, 11:03 AM
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Where did you install it?
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Old 12-06-2010, 04:58 PM
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I managed to solve it.

The problem is a rather strange bug, where if there is a window of the game directory open when running the exe it will do nothing.
One has to close the window first before running the game.
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