Cant play Darwina demon

[Sprite]

i have the darwinia demo and i looked in the post about errors and i added those codes now it says "Cannot open language file language/(null)txt. Please help me!

[Sprite]

Sorry i ment demo

[KingAl]

Slow down. What initially happened? Where did you 'add those codes' to, and was there a problem beforehand?

[voiderest]

Edit: fixed the problem

I was trying to play the demo as well. It would crash on start up with a black screen and a sound looping, although I could get the menu screen to work by removing the 'StartMap' line in the 'preferences.txt'. When I try to start the Launch Pad map it then crashes as before.

I tried to do all the things suggested to fix it, but I might have missed something so I'll try to list what I did.

- I updated all the drivers I could find updates for including my bios.
- I tried changing the 'RenderLandscapeDetail' setting.
- I also tried reducing the settings dealing with the screen such as size and color depth.

The only thing that had any effect was changing the screen settings which only increased the amount of time before the game crashed in its attempt to load the map. I tried running the demo from your site and steam with the same results. (thought there might be different versions)

Under System:
OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2
CPU: Intel T2300 @ 1.66 GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1014MB of RAM
DirectX: 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

Under Device:
Chip Type: Intel GMA 950
Approx. Total Memory: 224.0 MB

Under Drivers:
Main Driver: igxprd32.dll
Version: 6.14.0010.4864
Date: 8/24/2007

I'm trying to run it on a Inspiron e1505/6400 so it just might not be able to handle it although I'm able to run CS: Source, Dawn of War, and the other demos Introversion has. I couldn't find any 'blackbox.txt' so I don't have that info. (maybe the demo doesn't have it) Would the full game result in the same crash as the demo if I attempted to run it? Is it just my out of date laptop or is there something I should have done to fix it?

Thanks for any help/advice.

Edit: maybe I should have made a new post or added a reply to the other post dealing with the demo, sorry mods

[estel]

I can't remember your actual problem, but the graphics solutions is known to run Darwinia... adequately, if not well.

Edit: Wait: You can run source on that?
I might have to give that a go.

[voiderest]

oh man I feel smart, RenderLandscapeMode is different from RenderLandscapeDetail

Yeah it can handle source although try to play the wrong map and I think its going to die a horrible death.