have anyone tried virtual pc? i'll tell you one thing guys...it wooooooooooooorks 8)

Hi guys, i found this forum by googling, thank god! I still have a problem with playing the game and I would really appreciate for a little help here I followed Sneaksie's instructions, but I can't perform "secedit /configure /cfg compatws.inf /db compatws.sdb". It goes to 11% and then crashes. Obviously, in the game this is the reason why the game crashes when cultists are going to shoot. All other features in the game are just working fine, video, music and sounds.
 
I have Windows XP Professional (2002) with Service Pack 1
 

To WRX_Rocky,
You might wanna try a www.homeoftheunderdogs.com . i've seen the game there.

Has anyone here seen this post?
 
http://forums.relicnews.com/archive/index.php/t-22435.html
 
I'm going to try it today... and if this is the price to pay to play this great game on win2k, I have no problems with it.
 
as a side note, I tried everything that everyone here posted and no go for me on a win2k laptop. do any others have success stories...?
 
 
JSokko

Fantastic to see I am not the only person to still want to play this game. Even more reassuring to see I am not the only person to have had problems. Particularly with those filthy cultists.
 
Not being so computer literate as you chaps, however I opted for the slightly low-tech solution of acquiring an old PC and peripherals which is now on its way to me and will be set up with win 98 so I can play Chaos Gate, Panzer General, and a bunch of other games in peace.
 
Dawn of War may look good, but frankly I think WH40k has gone a bit shiny and playstationesque since the days of Rogue Trader. Chaos Gate has darkness and squishy cultists ago go, not to mention some great music. But then I still remember Thrud the Barbarian being in White Dwarf, so I might as well be ranting on about the merits of triceratops.

I agree tyrell.
 
Even though Dawn of war is a GREAT game.. it's like happy shiny fantasy war. Not at all like the grim and forsaken world the 40k universe are meant to be.
 
Anyway i also opted for buying an old computer... much easier. But what win versioon should i go for?? preferably one with nooo problems

When I start chaos gate my cpu just waits and then nothing...
At first i had downloaded it full (wich of course took ages) that didn't work, err below, then tried the demo same eroor
 
When i look a ctrlaltdel wh40k.exe is at processes but not at applications, it just wont start up.
I work p3 666MHz (XP), 256 MB and a whopping TNT 2
Man i hope someone can help or im gonna throw this dinosaur out of the window
RAAAAA
plz help

I had Chaos Gate in the old times on a Win 98 but it did not run under Xp so i decided to make it run again:) I have ran around for a while and in the and I have Installed VMware 5.0 then MAde a Virtual machine with Win98SE on it and after that INstralled DirectX9.0c on the Virtual Win98 and taramm!!! it runs again:) Buggy Just like in the old times:D
 
HAve fun all:)

'Lo all, joined this forum after finding the thread on a google search.
 
I've been playing the Warhammer PC games since I got my first PC some years ago, and loved every one I could get my hands on, which was all of them apart from Chaos Gate.
 
I managed to get my hands on it recently, after playing Dawn of War make me hanker for the old days of things like Final Liberation and Rites of War, and I installed with great anticipation.
 
It works, sort of.
 
I don't have any of the problems with crashing that have been mentioned previously in this thread, if and when it does crash it seems to be pretty random. My problem is that it's dark, really dark, dark enough that on jungle levels I can't make out the terrain. It's not just in-game either, all the menu's and cutsequences are dark. I've tried changing my video brightness, and my monitor brightness is already at max but it's made no difference, it seems like when the game launches the video sets itself to hardware default, which is pretty day.
 
I've tried all the compatibility modes, rolling back my video drivers and what not, but they don't make a difference. Anyone have any other suggestions?
 
I'm running XP Pro SP2, with a 2.6 Athlon XP, 1024mb Ram and a nVidia GeForce FX5600 with 256mb RAM

That is great game, and luckily it almoust work in my computer (A64, R800Pro+Catalyst 4.12, XP Pro+SP2, 1GB RAM, WH40K CG whit 1.2 patch) whitout any trick. I can play it and even save, but game itself crash to windows randomly in battle (way too fast, just can play one round in battle). Any ideas what to do to get game stable?

Originally posted by Andari:

Quote:I've tried all the compatibility modes, rolling back my video drivers and what not, but they don't make a difference. Anyone have any other suggestions? 
Try to find some software (PowerStrip, Rivatuner?) whits let you to make quick key to brightnes or gammacontrols (I use ATITool, but it work only in ATI's card).
 
Edit: Additional info to crash, it crash only when cultist fire in laserpistol or when I hit cultist whit combat knife and cultist try to hit back, so I think that the fault is in cultist animation files attac animation (I tried to copy bolter stats to laspistol, but still crash). Any ideas how to replace cultist animation whit some other troops animation?
[Edited by Rambe on 2005-07-05 04:54:37]
 

OMG, you people are going to love this. I don't know but Chaos Gate works perfectly fine and Im running OS Windows XP service pack 2! Heres how you get it running without tearing your PC into pieces!
 
1)First right click on the Wh40K.exe, then select compatibility. DONT STOP READING ITS MORE THAN YOU THINK!!!
 
2)Select run in "256 colors", and select run in "640x480" screen resolution.
 
3) Right click on your desktop, go to "display modes". Then look at either "True Color" or "High Color" for your display settings. Now write down your original display setting...somewhere?
 
4) Switch your display mode to "TRUE COLOR- 1024 by 768"
 
5) And,go to your prog. files or where ever you installed the game.(program files suggested) And Double-Click the Wh40K.exe. (duh!)
 
6) you might get a black screen in which you have to sort of "CLEAR the fog of war" (your mouse will come in handy as a windsheild whiper )
 
7) If you see the opening cinematic you know your good! Although "FOG OF WAR" MAY STILL APPEAR!
 
8)FINALLY Start your mission, and the screen should go all crappy and trippy when you enter the battle screen. To kill this and return the screen to normal "non-hippy mode".
 
Simply hit ALT+TAB, you will see your desktop looks like crap. Nevermind that and quickly....FAST! As you can click on the game again. BINGO! The screen is now clean of the psychadelica.
 
****WARNING**** Crashing will happen when the darn "Cultist" uses his laser. Or when the game feels like it?

So basically there is no real fix to this game on win XP.
Then thats a good job I completed the whole game when I had Win 98
 
My problems are that on the second campaign mission or any scenario mission the game will just crash when an enemy unit moves to a certain location. The whole first mission has no problems what so ever and this includes cultists fireing their lazers.
 
I'm usally good at getting things working, I'll try some stuff and post here if any luck.
Well I've still got to try the game out on my new PC (That too has win XP)

Im not sure if this is ok to be posted hear but I got my copy of chaos gate working fine buy putting -WINCURSOR on at the end of the target line.
 
But the mane point is im now at the point when you first get to use terminators and all they get is one clip of ammo and that I can not add extra items and the spaces for the extra items are all white and fussy so I can not use them.
 
So I was just wondering whether this was support to happen or is it another error from running it on xp.
 
I have also tried the other methods of getting the game to work and the same thing happens.
 
Any help would be nice as i wish to carry on with the campaign.

Originally posted by jchitman:

Im not sure if this is ok to be posted hear but I got my copy of chaos gate working fine buy putting -WINCURSOR on at the end of the target line.quote] 
Success! A 'fix' that actually works, many thanks to you.
 
This, aside from Englands Ashes victory, was one of the best things that happened for my birthday (17 yesterday 8) )

i think i have a problem that nobodyelse has had yet. On campaign mission 3 Kimarra IV there is a CSM with a heavy bolter looking down on the Ultras starting location. Whenever I kill the CSM the game crashes. I looked at the map with the scenario editor and apparently killing this space marine activates some kind of trigger. I don't know if this is related. I played the game through once a year ago and it worked. This is a new copy of the game and i have a new video card. I loved the game and would appreciate any help. Contact me at rhickman@uga.edu

Hi guys,
I've found the solution using MS Virtual PC 2004.
I virtualized a Win98SE enviroment and Chaos Gate now runs with no errors.
Don't install the Virtual Machine Additions!!! If you do it, the Virtual Video Card doesn't work fine anymore with CG.
 
I feel I can use Virtual PC for every old games I have.
 
 

Another fix:-
 
Note: - Im using the 1.2 patch and running the game with windows xp but with Chaos Gate in Windows 95 compatibility mode.
 
If you have the problem where the game crashes when the laspistol is fired, simply take the "chaos gate" folder out of the "randomgames" folder, which you can delete. Rename the "chaos gate " folder to something with exactly 8 charachters in its name and put it in "C:\" - as simple as that.
 
i.e. "C:\ChsGate
 
 
[Edited by fireship4 on 2005-12-10 16:08:06]
 

Hey Everyone!, I'm taking chaos gate into 2006!
 
Now I've obviously got problems like everyones else. I have the cultist laspistol problem and none of the rest it seems.
 
At first it wouldn't run because of Xp compatability and then it did run with just 98/ME or 95 compatability turned on.
Then I ran into the laspistol problem. I personelly think it's actually an enemy overview problem as I had this problem with chaos marines where they're just about to shoot then, zip, I'm on the desktop.
 
I'm on the first level and can't get through it without bumping into one enemy in overview so wot do u guys think? am I hitting the nail on th head?
I've tried Brok's sugestion with c command\ and installing it to an eight letter directory but like others my desktop only goes to 800X640 so I can't follow the intructions completely.
 
I had this on my old comp with windows ME and a fat32 harddrive and it worked fine then. I might try getting past the early levels without getting hit (I'm playing on verteran difficulty ) if I take enough greandes and stuff u never know......
 
If someone figures something out which doesn't involve turning ur pc into a windows 98 machine to play it or would post if they had success with someones elses suggestion plz post it for everyone.
 
P.s. for anyone without the actually real game I'm pretty sure it was released in 1998 so I don't think it would be neccesary to put the compatability back to 95. But I'm going off the loads of 1998's on the back of the case and who know (definitly not me ) maybe setting it back to 95 actually helps somehow.

Tried Editing my last post but to no avail.
 
I'm now stuck on a target of opportunity before mission 3 (the first target of opportunity) my game keeps crashing now after the 2nd turn. someone else has said this also but I thought they were just encountering laspistols or something .
If everyones wondering wot I'm posting for it's just that i'm gonna try to get throught the game in its current laspistol, 2nd turn, crashyness and post tips here if I manage it.
1). run away from chaos forces on 1st target of opportunity tocheck 2nd turn crash.
2). try other targets of opportunity to see if its just one of them.
3).try mission
if all these fail then I'm stuck with a non working game and I'll have to find the effort to try all these fixes ppl have posted.