Okay, here's the situation. I had a recent hard-drive failure. The drive still worked, except that I could not boot from it. I was forced to reinstall Windows XP from scratch. Now that I've done that, updated everything, reinstalled all the latest drivers and such (yes, including DirectX), I decided it was time to reinstall DAO. Installation seemed to go smoothly and I proceeded to download and install the latest patch.
After that was complete, I restarted my system and then prepared to launch the game. I was rather shocked when I discovered that opon clicking on 'Play' in the configuration program that automatically launched, the game did not run. I proceeded to try again, about three times, with no results. There are no error messages, no firewall blockages (I'd already told it to unblock everything), it just won't launch. I then opened my task manager so I could see if it was running at all. I then discovered that daorigins.exe will run for about a second, and then shut down. Still no errors or anything helpful from the OS or the game itself. No new logs found anywhere in the installation folder or the user-data folder.
So, anyone have any clue what's going on here? My system is setup the same way it was before my drive-crash, and I was playing this game under the same game-configurations for a week or more before all this happened. I'm clueless as to what's going on.
unable to launch game at all
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Gaal
, juil. 21 2010 09:55
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Posté 24 juillet 2010 - 12:47
Nathan Willis
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- BioWare Employees
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Hi Gaal, I haven't heard of your particular problem occurring before. My first thought would be a check-your-drivers coupled with a try a re-install and see if that fixes it? Something you could try is during the reinstall process, try and run the game at each stage of the install. Install it off disc, run it while it's v1.0, then patch up to 1.03 or 1.04, see if you can run the game again.
schalafi: your error log indicates the installer can't read the RAR file on your disc. There's a few potential things that I can think of off the top of my head, but as always - try these at your own risk, and your mileage may vary:
First, your disc may be scratched up or damaged. At your own risk, of course: You could try gently cleaning it with something non-abrasive and a lint-free cloth, contact EA support to see about getting a replacement, or - be warned, most risky - take it somewhere where they'll refinish the surface of your disc if it does turn out to be scratched up.
Second, it could be that your cd drive is failing or dirty. Do you have another computer you could attempt an install on, or a friend's computer or something of the like? Or possibly you could copy the DVD contents as DABhand suggested and throw it on a USB hard or thumb drive for install purposes?
Third, the last thing I can think of is I recall an obscure issue with cyrillic languages that made the installer barf if winrar.dll wasn't up to date. So maybe head over to http://www.rarlab.com/ and get the latest version. That may fix your problem, but again, YMMV etcetera.
Hope that helps!
schalafi: your error log indicates the installer can't read the RAR file on your disc. There's a few potential things that I can think of off the top of my head, but as always - try these at your own risk, and your mileage may vary:
First, your disc may be scratched up or damaged. At your own risk, of course: You could try gently cleaning it with something non-abrasive and a lint-free cloth, contact EA support to see about getting a replacement, or - be warned, most risky - take it somewhere where they'll refinish the surface of your disc if it does turn out to be scratched up.
Second, it could be that your cd drive is failing or dirty. Do you have another computer you could attempt an install on, or a friend's computer or something of the like? Or possibly you could copy the DVD contents as DABhand suggested and throw it on a USB hard or thumb drive for install purposes?
Third, the last thing I can think of is I recall an obscure issue with cyrillic languages that made the installer barf if winrar.dll wasn't up to date. So maybe head over to http://www.rarlab.com/ and get the latest version. That may fix your problem, but again, YMMV etcetera.
Hope that helps!
