Space.ICD problem

Tachyon won't start on my machine since I upgraded to windows XP (two years ago now) - I get the intro movie fine, then there's a loading screen, and then there's an error message saying 'Space.ICD has encountered an error...'

I've talked to Novalogic about it, and all they'd say was 'replace your Space.ICD file with the version from your game CD'. This didn't work, and no matter how often I've tried to tell them, they just keep telling me the same thing.

I've upgraded my entire machine over the course of the problem - I'm now running with a 4Ghz P4; 512MB RAM; Abit IS7E mobo; soundblaster Live! platinum and 128mb Radeon 9800Pro. The only thing that's the same is my copy of XP. The game runs fine on everyone else's machine, so I know it's not that. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that my copy of XP is at fault.

I've done loads of checking online, and I can't find this problem anywhere. Has anyone heard of a problem like this? And does anyone know a solution?

When you had the problem before, what version of Windows were you running?

My XP is the XP Home upgrade, from '98. I've since bought Comanche 4, and again it keeps crashing. Novalogic told me to update the game, even though I told them in my original email that I already had updated it! I wrote back telling them that I'd already updated. I've heard nothing back.

I'm coming to the conclusion that they're possibly the worst games company EVER! They seem to release shoddy products and then offer dreadful support for them, when they offer support at all!

Of course, I had no problems with Tachyon when I was running it under '98, or on anyone else's machine, so I may be going a little over the top with my vitriol. But I'm not getting any joy, and I've been trying to talk to Novalogic for pretty much two years now.

I'm having trouble now with Tachyon. I have used it before with XP, but recently updated my computer with a new motherboard, and formatted my HDD. I've installed tachyon, but when I come to play it I can't even get the intro up, it just seems to give me "SPACE.ICD has encountered a problem a needs to close" after about 5-10 secs of the CD spinning (rather eratically).
Does anybody have any ideas? I've updated it, reinstalled it, replaced the space.icd after an install, set all the .exe's to compatibility with Win 98, I just can't seem to fix it. I hope somebody is able to help.

Many thanks in advance
Scott

Go to gamecopyworld and download the fixed exe, backup your space.exe in your tachyon file and replace it with the downloaded one, now the game works.

Greetings, A real simple fix is to change your resolution to what you set it for at the launch screen. 1024x768 is the highest you can use. Some older games do not have the ability to reset your resolution and they crash if it's too high.

Hope that helps.

I get an error when I try to install the game. I always get to 12% but then it tells me that there was an error when moving the file. Does anyone know what that means or what I can do to fix it? Thanks.

Thanks Bluedeath. easy effective solution

I begin to have a problem with Tachyon: The Fringe. I have a Saitek X45, New build computer for games, with
Vista 32 bits. It ran good for some time with no problem till now. It run till I get to the second frame and it will
freeze up and nothing work, I have to Alt, Cont, Del to close the game and restart the and it will freeze up and nothing work.