The Masters

I know this game version is a couple years old but I just got it and I'm trying to get it running. Although when I try to run the game it crashes right away and I can't even get the game started. Here is the details to the problem.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: TW2008.exe
Application Version: 3.2.7.1
Application Timestamp: 469ff723
Fault Module Name: libavcodec.dll
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4739a24e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 001d24d0
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

Computer Specs:
Vista Ultimate 64bit
Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz
8gbs of RAM
LanParty UT/LT P35 Motherboard
nVidia Geforce 8600GT

Need any more specs please ask.

When I click "check online for a solution"
it comes back with:
Address a problem with FFmpeg


FFmpeg has stopped working properly.

Support for this product is community-based, providing solutions to common problems through an online user forum. Typically, this type of support lets you search the postings of other users for solutions, or ask the group a question if a solution to your problem is not immediately available.

Click to go online to the FFmpeg support forum


The ffmpeg site is no help when I search on it.

I also have tried changing it to run as administrator and run in compatability mode (xp sp2)
I just want the game to work. Please help!

Thanks in advance,
Stanton

I believe that I was having the same issue as you, at least I was receiving the same message. I couldn't find any help online, so I just had to figure it out myself. I believe that my problem was with an incompatable codecs. What I did to fix the issue was to start the ffdshow "Video decoder configuration" application that was installed when I installed ffdshow, I'm assuming you have installed ffdshow since you are having the ffmpeg error. I then clicked the "Info & CPU" choice in the left hand selection list. The next thing is to find the file that is giving you the problem, this is a bit tricky I was lucky for me it was the opening EAS.avi. The audio would play but only the 'E' would appear. I just went to the "C:\Program Files\EA SPORTS\Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 07\Data\Videos" directory and kept watching videos until I found the one that was giving me the problem. Strangely, several of the .avi's worked fine, but the opening one didn't. Anyway, once I found the one that was giving me the problem I once again opened it, using Windows Media Player btw, and once it was going I clicked the ffdshow "Video decoder configuration" application that I had started. While the EAS.avi file was playing, and with the "Info & CPU" selected, I could see in the right hand side of the ffdshow tool the information about the file that was playing. I was able to see that it was a "VP6" format, "VP61" to be exact and using the "libavcodec" (same as you ). I then clicked on the "codecs" item in the selection box of the "video decoder configuration" tool and then in the right hand side scrolled until I found the "VP6" format. I then clicked the "libavcodec" for that row which allowed me to select to disable the codec for that format which I did. I played the video again in Windows Media Player, and it played successfully! I'm not sure if I'm going to have any additional video problems, but hopefully I will be able to solve them the same way. I hope this helps you, it sounds more complicated than it is and didn't take me very long to fix it once I figured out what I was going to do. My instructions probably aren't the greatest though.

or rename the Video folder to xVideo
C:\Program Files\EA SPORTS\Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08\Data\Videos

then there's no conflict as there's nothing to load