How do you play the tutorials?

February 17, 2006 5:24 PM from

Hey all. Was reading some posts and saw that some people have been viewing the tutorials. I looked in the turotial folder but all I've got are a few image files. I read you can play them with a Bink viewer, but how exactly do you do this? Thanks for the help. Gotta have something to occupy me for the next couple days!!

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Reply #1 February 17, 2006 5:32 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

Get the viewer at http://www.radgametools.com/

Then double-click the .bik files.

Reply #2 February 17, 2006 6:20 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

Also, as a heads up, bink video doesn't have any navigational tools whatsoever. If you stop a video in the middle of play, you'll have to watch it over all the way from the beginning. This was a huge pain for me when I had to stop the Developer Commentary that came with the FEAR DVD edition.

If you have to pause a video, selecting a different program seems to work, so long as it's on top.

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Reply #3 February 17, 2006 7:20 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

Ahh, now I see. I didn't have any .bik files. Didn't realize you had to install tutorials, movies and multimedia separatly from main game install. I'll check back in a little bit and let you all know what I think of them.

Reply #4 February 17, 2006 7:23 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

If you have to pause a video, selecting a different program seems to work, so long as it's on top.

It also pauses if you minimize it.

Reply #5 February 18, 2006 1:31 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

Hmm the tutorials I doesn't mention espionage... Will there be more Tutorials? :

Reply #6 February 18, 2006 1:59 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

The spacebar also seems to pause bink video, in line with media player convention.

Reply #7 February 18, 2006 2:51 PM from

GalCiv2 Forums Top

Ok found my mistake... Went to the wrong folder... A mod can delete this post if they want

Reply #8 February 20, 2006 11:23 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

Man. These bink people don't make it easy to watch these without their player. I finally found a dll that would play these with sound/without crashing in an old version of Media Player Classic (apparently the new versions don't have this feature). And it wasn't the dll in GalCiv 2

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