Question

When i start up Empires from steam, the loading screen goes white , and on top it says " video not available, cannot find 'vids:cvid' compressor " and it plays a sound file, sounding like something exploding.


Is this normal with everyone, or am i missing a file, or is this file still in the process of being created?

 

your missing the intro movie thing... lol how did that happen?

 

It sounds like you are missing a codec.

 

Do you need DivX or something for it?

 

Do the valve startup videos for HL2 work? As a temporary fix you can start the game with "-novid" to disable the video entirely. You may need to install the DivX and/or Cinepak codecs.

 

i have divx 9.0 or greater

 

I prefer the K-Lite codec pack myself, but that's because I'm a nut and don't have the time/bandwidth to compare every effing codec pack out there.

 

the cccp (combined community codec pack) is pretty good too.

 

My computer BSODed when I installed that. Probably didn't like my configuration :p (it was a new computer)

 

K-Lite Codec pack screws up game movies for me.
GTA 3 series for example.
I use CCCP.

 

Just install them when you need it and dont install 50+ codecs and end up not needing 30 of them...

 

Never had a problem with k-lite myself.