Splinter Cell 2 play from HD problem

th1 · #1 12-05-2004, 07:10

I have backed up Splinter Cell 2: Pandora Tomorrow to my xbox hard-drive and I can start it good from evolutionx lauch menu, BUT after I watch the cool starter movie and choose single player the game just hangs when loading (I waited over 30 minutes, still nothing happened). Same happens if I use dvd2xbox to launch the offline.xbe from the Splinter Cell 2 folder (it doesn't show the movie but goes straight to the loading screen and hangs).
I have tried to patch the media check using dvd2xbox but it didn't help.

I have Apple-x Pro chip and Evolutionx 1.8.375 dashboard. Bios is unknown and quite old (I have never upgraded the bios, so it's at least one year old).
Could it be that I have too old bios to run the game? Or could I just patch those xbe's and run them with my curren bios?

Thought I can play other games from HD, for example Max Payne 2 plays good.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Th

Quall999 · #2 12-05-2004, 07:37

first, make sure all 3 of the IGR (in game resets) are turned off in evox, then try. That is usually a result of it. dvd2xbox patches all defalut.xbe's, so it should be patched if need be.

#3 12-05-2004, 14:09

All 3 IGR? Where else, aside from the settings screen on evox can an IGR toggle be found? I'm getting the same problem with KoTOR.

AXmichigan · #4 12-05-2004, 18:24

there are 3 igr switches in the settings of evox, turn em all off
also u needa update ur bios, i suggest 4981...
the newer bios' dont need games to be patched

th1 · #5 13-05-2004, 05:23

I disabled all three IGRs, but no luck. Next I'm going to try patch that offline.xbe by hand as explained in Quall999 patching tutorial (I think the version of dvd2xbox I have didn't patch offline.xbe, I heard somewhere that older versions of it patches only files named default.xbe).

I guess it would be time to upgrade the bios but I don't know which bios fits to my Applex Pro chip, so I just try to roll on by patching.

P.S. monkeyshare, I had a bit trouble to find three IGRs also, but one is near Ftp settings, another is near Remote Debugging settings and last one is near Misc settings.

Th

Quall999 · #6 13-05-2004, 09:10

You should update your bios instead, if your chip is upgradeable. The bios that AXmichigan would be the prefered. You will not have to media patch games, and there is a small percentage of games that are unique. I ussually send my games to my xbox with dvd2xbox, then after, I load boXplorer and re-send the .xbe files. Some of them didn't seem to work after patching (prince of persia to be specific.)

divx · #7 15-05-2004, 09:38

what is in game reset and why would you want to turn it off?