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Good News (or not, big problem, need help!!!!!!!!)

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Good news everyone. As long as I am not a zombie due to swine flu by tomorrow ;) I should have my new laptop tomorrow morning and be on ESO by the evening (not sure if it has a mic or not) Look forward to getting some games in and hopefully starting up my own VOD's with the Aztecs in a few months once I get my eye back in.
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You're not a zombie yet? And just when I finished cleaning out my Mauser... ;)

Glad to hear you'll be back on, buddy! GL HF.
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Moi? A zombie? I always look like this

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Whenever I go to install TAD, I get this error:

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AOE3 and TWC installed fine, this box just appears at the stage before I enter the activation key.
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TBH I would be more worried about your wallpaper.........



On a serious note, vista can be a little funny installing AOE, try googling for a fix, I can't remember what I had to do but it was a strange proccess.
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I don't have Vista so I'm at a loss but just wanted to say S.T.A.L.K.E.R is an awesome game can you get max graphics on your laptop?

I see you got Fraps installed as well hope you got a big harddrive or an external one cuz its like 50gb for one game!
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[quote=""StrokeyBlofeld""]TBH I would be more worried about your wallpaper.........[/quote]

It's the standard one. Honest :roll:

[quote=""StrokeyBlofeld""]On a serious note, vista can be a little funny installing AOE, try googling for a fix, I can't remember what I had to do but it was a strange proccess.[/quote]

Ok cheers for that, I'll take a look

[quote=""Blackadderthe4th""]I don't have Vista so I'm at a loss but just wanted to say S.T.A.L.K.E.R is an awesome game can you get max graphics on your laptop?[/quote]

Oh yeah, dynamic lighting ftw 8) It is bloody awesome. After my last laptop which could just run it on min settings, I just stood there looking around the zone for miles taking the moment in, then got attacked by a dog :-P

[quote=""Blackadderthe4th""]I see you got Fraps installed as well hope you got a big harddrive or an external one cuz its like 50gb for one game![/quote]

Yeah, this is a beast of a laptop, although the FRAPs is mainly for another forum where I write stories for them (with ingame screenshots) Last one I did got over 47,300 views and 1,674 replies/comments 8)
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Thought I would try it again and now I am getting a different error!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So bloody annoying

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[quote=""Blackadderthe4th""]
I see you got Fraps installed as well hope you got a big harddrive or an external one cuz its like 50gb for one game![/quote]

my laptop only has a 300gb harddrive and for a schol project i put 2gether a video file of several different video games that i recorded using fraps. i ended up having a 200gb video file with only 30 min of video. took me a month 2 find out what was taking up 66% of my harddrive space. lol.

@highlander

is ur disk scratched?

have u tried rebooting ur computer?
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[quote=""StrokeyBlofeld""]TBH I would be more worried about your wallpaper..........[/quote]

wow Jim, I know we get on and the like but this is simply not acceptable bro. Stop reading my mind and posting s**t b4 I get the chance 2 man.

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Here you go Tom, one of these might fix your "issue" :-P

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Nature is none too fond of "Aqua Fortis" either ;)
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LOL cleeduz

I have tried everything guys, it is just not happening. I am at my wits end, I have wasted about 2 and a half hours today trying to get TAD to load. I am not buying a new CD and it is not even that scratched
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try ringing a vista help line if there is one? otherwise just Google the hell outta your problem. After 8 re-installs I finally managed to get Empire:Totalwar up and running after the new patch killed it for me.
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http://forum.agecommunity.com/forums/thread/218393.aspx

hope this helps :) first hit on google when i typed in

"Error Loading PID Generator DLL. the dll could not be found"

you might wanna be careful since ur gonna be touching windows files.

Edit: from what i understand from that post is u should first check if u have mfc42.dll in C:\Windows\System32
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