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Article ID: 297029 - Last Review: January 31, 2007 - Revision: 3.3 Games: Black Screen Displayed or Msg: "mmsystem006: There are no drivers installed on your system."This article was previously published under Q297029 SYMPTOMS When you try to start Microsoft Age of Empires II: The Age
of Kings, the program's "Loading" screen appears, after which the screen may
turn black, and then the Microsoft Windows desktop appears. The
pre-game cinematic sequence is not displayed as expected, and you are unable to
start the game. When starting either version of Flight Simulator
listed above, you may see the following message:
mmsystem006: There are no drivers installed on your system.
CAUSE This behavior can occur when the Msvideo.dll Windows system
file is missing or corrupted. RESOLUTION To resolve this issue, replace the Msvideo.dll file with a
new copy from the Microsoft Windows CD-ROM. To do this, follow these steps:
Note Because there are several versions of Microsoft Windows, the
following steps may be different on your computer. If they are, see your
product documentation to complete these steps.
- Use a Windows startup disk to restart the computer to a
command prompt.
- At the command prompt, type C:, and
then press ENTER.
Note If Windows is not installed on drive C, substitute the correct
drive letter. - Type Rename C:\Windows\System\Msvideo.dll
Msvideo.old, and then press ENTER.
- Extract a new copy of the Msvideo.dll file to the
Windows\System folder. For additional information about how to use the
Extract tool, click the following article number to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
129605Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=129605/
)
How to Extract Original Compressed Windows Files
- Remove the startup disk and restart the
computer.
- Remove the Motion Video device. To do this, follow these
steps:
- Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- In Control Panel, double-click Sounds and Multimedia.
- On the Devices tab (Advanced tab in Microsoft Windows 95), expand Media Control Devices.
- Right-click Motion Video Device (Media
Control), and then click Properties on the shortcut menu that appears.
- In the Motion Video Device (Media Control)
Properties dialog box, click Remove, click Yes on the Remove message that appears, and then click OK two times.
- Reinstall the Motion Video device. To do this, follow these
steps:
- Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- In Control Panel, double-click Add New Hardware.
- In the Add New Hardware Wizard, click Next twice.
- Under Do you want Windows to search for your
new hardware?, click No, I want to select the hardware from a
list, and then click Next.
- In the Hardware types list, click
Sound, video and game controllers, and then click Next.
- Under Manufacturers, click Microsoft MCI, click Motion Video Device (Media Control) under
Models, and then click Next.
- Click Finish, and then click Yes when prompted to restart the computer.
- Enable the Motion Video device. To do this, follow these
steps:
- Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
- In Control Panel, double-click Sounds and
Multimedia.
- On the Devices tab (Advanced tab in Windows 95), expand Media Control Devices.
- Right-click Motion Video Device (Media
Control), and then click Properties on the shortcut menu that appears.
- In the Motion Video Device (Media Control)
Properties dialog box, click Use this Media Control
device, click Apply, and then click OK twice.
- Restart the computer.
REFERENCES For additional information about issues
related to the Motion Video device, click the following article number to view
the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 147422Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=147422/
)
Multimedia Err Msg: Not Enough Memory to Start Program
APPLIES TO- Microsoft Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
- Microsoft Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion
- Microsoft Age of Empires Gold Edition
- Microsoft Age of Empires II Gold Edition
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 Standard Edition
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