Whenever I go to open the game, the fmv's play fine, but then the game itself loads and i get the message

"A problem has been detected during BRender initialisation.

Please refer to the Readme file on how to fix this problem".


Of course, there's no Readme, so I Googled it, and the only other person I've found with the same problem was running windows '98 after they upgraded from '95. That person was running a voodoo card or something, which I definitely don't have. That person also mentioned that the Readme was no help at all.

I'm running a bog standard Aspire One 751h (1.33GHz Z520 Atom, 1GB 667MHz RAM, Intel GMA 500) with W7 Ultimate, I've updated the drivers, rebooted after install, all the FAQ stuff, and none of it's working. I've even tried running it in compatibility mode, disabling Aero, etc, nothing, same error as always.

I've sent off a support question to GOG.com, but thought I may as well broaden my horizon's, see if anyone else know a fix

It sounds like the game can't initialise the graphics mode it needs.

Have you tried one of the other glide wrappers mentioned on this forum, or some of the advanced ini tweaks?

In the effort of keeping double posts down I'll just edit this ;)

I've tried Zeckensack's glide wrapper, to no effect, but this post mentions reducing my pagefile to 512MB. I would, if I had a better machine, but because this thing only has 1GB, I would like to try a workaround before trying that.
It also says setting the games 3Dfx Voodoo 1 and 2 shortcuts to use wwin95/98 compatibility mode, and then running said shortcuts. Where are these shortcuts?

ALso if you read down a ways, you'll notice the guys making an honest attempt to fix the sound bug

Same problem:

"A problem has been detected during BRender initialisation.

Please refer to the Readme file on how to fix this problem".

This problem has been described on the forum in this post and in:
http://www.gog.com/forum/independence_war_series/brender_initialization_problem_right_after_intro?search=brender

Trying to run the application directly will work for a while, but crash at the first attempt to jump through a Lagrange point.

Both posts are over 2 years old without answer, so I just sent a support ticket as there is no matching topic in the support answers for this game.

Fafhred, did you get a response to your support ticket? Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks!

Yes, support had a solution if you bought the game (from them).