Greeting All!

I have been playing Endless Space 2 in early release and beta!  It is a great game and thank you for all your hard work!

I have noticed that the intro movie, (Sega and Amplitude) movies no longer play at the beginning of the game.  I simply get the windows 10 waiting blue circle.  When I mouse click, the game begins to load and the gameplay from runs great!

Also, during the startup of a session, none of the faction movies play.  I simply see the closed captioning at the bottom of a black screen (no sound).  

I have tried all the recommended solutions on you "check here first page".

I then explored the steam folder and found that the intro and faction movies are .mp4 files.  Windows 10 does not natively play .mp4 files.

Would this be the reason that the movies will not play?

Thank you in advance for your help with this issue.

Creaton76

I use windows 10 too and don't have any of those problems. Maybe it's a hardware or GPU driver issue? One of the mods/vips would probably know better.

Thanks for the reply SirBagel.  

I do have the latest GPU and Windows drivers.  Never thought about chipset driver though.

I will look into that.  Thanks!

Can you check that it's not same issue than : https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forum/73-tech-support/thread/20802-graphic-bug-ghost-windows-in-the-tech-tree

Thanks cyr4x, but that did not work.  It actually made the game hang more.  I will post a log this afternoon.

Thank you again for helping out!

Creston76

Here are the results of my DxDiag diagonstic:

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System Information
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      Time of this report: 5/13/2017, 06:08:05
             Machine name: COSMOS-PC
               Machine Id: {7F28F1D2-46A6-4A5D-838A-C8ADBE47254B}
         Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 14393) (14393.rs1_release_sec.170427-1353)
                 Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
      System Manufacturer: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
             System Model: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
                     BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/12/15 17:06:12 Ver: 04.06.05
                Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
                   Memory: 16384MB RAM
      Available OS Memory: 16342MB RAM
                Page File: 2557MB used, 30167MB available
              Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
          DirectX Version: DirectX 12
      DX Setup Parameters: Not found
         User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
       System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
          DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
                 Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
           DxDiag Version: 10.00.14393.0000 64bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
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      Display Tab 1: No problems found.
      Display Tab 2: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
        Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
          Input Tab: No problems found.

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DirectX Debug Levels
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Direct3D:    0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw:  0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay:  0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow:  0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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          Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
       Manufacturer: NVIDIA
          Chip type: GeForce GTX 750 Ti
           DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
        Device Type: Full Device
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1380&SUBSYS_37533842&REV_A2
      Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
     Display Memory: 10188 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 2017 MB
      Shared Memory: 8170 MB
       Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
       Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
      Monitor Model: VG245
         Monitor Id: AUS24A1
        Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
        Output Type: HDMI
        Driver Name: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_a2b0acab06663645\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_a2b0acab06663645\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_a2b0acab06663645\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_a2b0acab06663645\nvldumdx.dll
Driver File Version: 22.21.0013.8205 (English)
     Driver Version: 22.21.13.8205
        DDI Version: 12
     Feature Levels: 11_0,10_1,10_0,9_3,9_2,9_1
       Driver Model: WDDM 2.1
Graphics Preemption: DMA
 Compute Preemption: DMA
           Miracast: Not Supported
Hybrid Graphics GPU: Not Supported
     Power P-states: Not Supported
  Driver Attributes: Final Retail
   Driver Date/Size: 4/30/2017 8:00:00 PM, 885032 bytes
        WHQL Logo'd: Yes
    WHQL Date Stamp: Unknown
  Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-50C0-11CF-FF7B-5E1718C2DB35}
          Vendor ID: 0x10DE
          Device ID: 0x1380
          SubSys ID: 0x37533842
        Revision ID: 0x00A2
 Driver Strong Name: oem0.inf:0f066de3a79f2f53:Section078:22.21.13.8205:pci\ven_10de&dev_1380
     Rank Of Driver: 00D12001
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       D3D9 Overlay: Supported
            DXVA-HD: Supported
       DDraw Status: Enabled
         D3D Status: Enabled
         AGP Status: Enabled
           MPO Caps: Not Supported
        MPO Stretch: Not Supported
    MPO Media Hints: Not Supported
        MPO Formats: Not Supported

          Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
       Manufacturer: NVIDIA
          Chip type: GeForce GTX 750 Ti
           DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
        Device Type: Full Device
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1380&SUBSYS_37533842&REV_A2
      Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
     Display Memory: 10188 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 2017 MB
      Shared Memory: 8170 MB
       Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
       Monitor Name: HP 2159 Series Wide LCD Monitor
      Monitor Model: HP 2159
         Monitor Id: HWP282B
        Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
        Output Type: DVI
        Driver Name: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_a2b0acab06663645\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nv_dispi.inf_amd64_a2b0acab06663645\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverSt

Finally got everything to work.

After updating graphic drivers and such, I still could not get the movies to play.  (The intro and faction movies)

Then I went poking around in the local files, via the Steam right-click menu, and from there I reinstalled both Direct X and Microsoft.net framework.  

Now everything works!

Thank you all for your assistance and comments!  It was greatly appreciated!

Creston76