The Tain

A reinstall from a better source worked!

Thanks for all your help.

Ah. I got it from some random place on the internet, which I figure is (morally) ok because I did buy the game. And know where my cd is, too, it's just about 500 miles away from me. The 1.5 patch probably overwrote tags.gor with the correct one, but left the other ones wonky. I'm going to try a diff...

all right, let's give that a try: [Path] / filename MD5 sum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [C:\Program Files (x86)\myth_TFL\TAGS\] ARTSOUND.GOR 97491614b429402eb0acdac794cf870e CUTSCENE.GOR 6bd202cd7ec438c21fc4c1d34b18d74b LOCAL.GOR 6f71eec65654b9e374...

hm.. trying it again, I noticed that it progressed through the whole loading bar for my test film, on crow's bridge, but only got a little way through loading the MP map. So I tried firing up a one-person lan game, and that gave me a ctd as well. So I'm thinking I maybe don't have good map files for...

alas, I tried all those things, and no luck. software rendering makes it take a lot less time to get dumped back to the select a film screen. Whereupon I ctd when I do anything.

Yeah, I'm running in windows xp compatibility mode.

It's actually pretty weird what it does for a film-- it starts loading, screen goes black, and returns to the select a film screen. Then when I try to do anything, I ctd. Maybe I will look into xp virtual machine.

Does anyone have any advice for watching films from the MWC '98? I can get myth to work on my windows 8 box, both in 1.0 and 1.5 versions. But 1.0 doesn't see the 1.3 films, and the game crashes when I load them in 1.5. The 1.3 patcher can't find Myth on my computer.

Can anyone help me?