We don’t have too much information about the issue - we know it’s movies causing the crash, but that’s about it. So, looks like there is no win-win situation. With movies removed, game works just fine but you get to lose FMVs and clips for good - surely you are missing out parts of the full experience. So how have people been dealing with this issue until now? Look no further than game’s article on : While the crash is gone and audio works fine, there is absolutely no video output, ever.

Well, it is possible to enable a certain compatibility shim to prevent the crash - however, This is Windows 10, but I assure it’s just the same on Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1.īasing on countless workarounds and compatibility shims people attempted to use, all of which unsuccessful, there is absolutely no way to get movies to work, at all.įorced compatibility modes, windowed modes, D3D wrappers - nothing fixes the issue. …while on Windows Vista or any newer system (including Windows 10, of course) movies look more like this: Upon launching the game, users are greeted with a copyright screen, followed by two movies. (though the game is said to support Windows 2000 too), with Windows Vista not reaching its public release until nine months later, in January 2007. At that time, the most popular Windows version was Windows XP However, PC version of the game has one major flaw which surfaced only several months after game’s debut in March 2006. The game is designed as an open world action-adventure around the plot of The Godfather movie.

It initially released on PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2, later followed with additional releases on PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, The Godfather: The Game is a 2006 game developed by EA Redwood Shores (Visceral Games). Upon downloading, all you need to do is to extract the archive to game’s directory and that’s it! If you have movies removed or renamed, don’t forget to restore them, since they will work just fine now. TL DR - if you are not interested in an in-depth overview of what was wrong with the game and how it was fixed, just go here to grab SilentPatch for The Godfather: Fixing game-breaking issues in The Godfather: The Game - Part 1

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