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Posted February 27, 2012
Hello,

I have read through this forum and I have tried various compatibility issues and the apolyton patch. Whenever I try to run the game, I get a black screen with a waiting icon.

I did see a suggestion about installing to a temp directory, but no directory is labeled temp.

I am using Windows 7 as my OS. Any further relevant specifications can be provided upon request.
Posted March 10, 2012
I have exactly the same Problem. It seems if one has Win7 64x then GoG games will have trouble...
Posted April 01, 2012
Do you hear sound or music from the game while the black screen is shown? If so, then it might be the video. I had that problem, just went into the ctp2_data/default directory and deleted the intro video (should be the first file in there). Suddenly, game starts working again.
Posted July 09, 2013
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herrorcman: Do you hear sound or music from the game while the black screen is shown? If so, then it might be the video. I had that problem, just went into the ctp2_data/default directory and deleted the intro video (should be the first file in there). Suddenly, game starts working again.
Thank you so much for this. I had this issue and it worked perfectly. (Win7 64bits)
Post edited July 09, 2013 by Jems
Posted July 09, 2013
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herrorcman: Do you hear sound or music from the game while the black screen is shown? If so, then it might be the video. I had that problem, just went into the ctp2_data/default directory and deleted the intro video (should be the first file in there). Suddenly, game starts working again.
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Jems: Thank you so much for this. I had this issue and it worked perfectly. (Win7 64bits)
You can also install indeo codec if you want to play with videos.
Posted August 24, 2013
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Jems: Thank you so much for this. I had this issue and it worked perfectly. (Win7 64bits)
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Strijkbout: You can also install indeo codec if you want to play with videos.
The problem with the Indeo codec being that it's a known security risk, so you'd better install the appropriate Windows update to resolve that.

(Link to Microsoft Technet Article on it)
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