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Zeus + Poseidon (Acropolis)Crashing on start up(5 posts)(5 posts)
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Posted November 22, 2016
I've tried nearly everything to get this game to work and all I've gotten so far is a load screen that crashes immediately after it appears. I'm on windows 10.
It essentially loads a black screen and then either the loading screens appear (if I change my resolution to 1024) and then it turns into a small black box in the upper left corner and then crashes or if my resolution isn't changed it doesn't show the load screens it just becomes a small black box and crashes.

I've played just Zeus on this laptop before and it was fine so it's 100% Poseidon fucking with me (appropriate really)
I've tried:
All compatibility modes
Changing my res down to 1024 (the only thing that changed anything)
running as admin
re-downloading direct x
launching from galaxy
reinstalling

The only thing I haven't tried is this "widescreen mod" people talked about in earlier threads, I can't find a good link to it anywhere so that's pretty much my last resort before a refund.
Post edited November 22, 2016 by ptorangekatie
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Posted November 22, 2016
Figured out a fix it's pretty brute force though.
Downloaded bink video and deleted in the Binks folder JUST the Zeus_IntroHQ file. I guess it just doesn't run the title intro (which honestly I prefer it's tedious and I skip it anyway)
Should work without downloading bink video codex if you just delete the file. Anyway the game seems stable even in the background, i guess modern computers just don't like running bink files. oh and it's still in 1024 resolution.
Posted February 14, 2017
Hi, thanks for your tipp. It worked after deleting the videos.
Posted February 27, 2017
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ptorangekatie: I've tried nearly everything to get this game to work and all I've gotten so far is a load screen that crashes immediately after it appears. I'm on windows 10.
It essentially loads a black screen and then either the loading screens appear (if I change my resolution to 1024) and then it turns into a small black box in the upper left corner and then crashes or if my resolution isn't changed it doesn't show the load screens it just becomes a small black box and crashes.

I've played just Zeus on this laptop before and it was fine so it's 100% Poseidon fucking with me (appropriate really)
I've tried:
All compatibility modes
Changing my res down to 1024 (the only thing that changed anything)
running as admin
re-downloading direct x
launching from galaxy
reinstalling

The only thing I haven't tried is this "widescreen mod" people talked about in earlier threads, I can't find a good link to it anywhere so that's pretty much my last resort before a refund.
WOW deleting the BINKS folder in general is what finally enabled the game to launch for me. I had the same problem as you. Running WIndows 10. Left the resolution at 1920 x 1080 and it runs great.
Posted June 18, 2020
Am I doing something wrong? Game was worked for me on laptop only (resolution 1920x1080). Then I have plugged big screen with same resolution and game did not running anymore:
- black screen in fullscreen,
- black screen in smaller screen part,
- black screen in smallest screen part
- the end.

I have tried remove the whole folder, but it didn't help. Should I restart gog galaxy or reinstall game or something else?
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