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How-to-fix Known Issue when running with Kapersky 2010 on Win7-64bit

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keith.lamothe:
If you're doing ALL of the following:
1) Running Win7-64bit.
2) Running Kapersky 2010 (or earlier).
3) Trying to run AI War 4.0 (or later)

AI War will fail to start with a "Get thread Context failed" error message.

The specific problem is that when AI War automatically tries to connect to the internet to check for updates , Kapersky takes it down ninja-style.

There are a few ways to deal with the problem:

1) The best solution is to update to Kapersky 2011 (or whatever the most recent version is).  They fixed the bug (or feature, if you like AV programs that tackle with enthusiasm) with that version.
2) If you can't/don't-want-to update Kapersky, you can disable AI War's auto-check behavior by opening your settings.dat file (Game folder, RuntimeData subfolder) and changing the line ""AutomaticallyCheckForUpdates:1" to ""AutomaticallyCheckForUpdates:0".  This will naturally prevent you from automatically hearing about the new updates through the game, but the updater will still work.
3) Change AV programs.  Not suggesting this, though, since it's possible another AV program will have some other set of problems, etc.

If none of this works for you, please let us know so we can help you.

(thanks to Jarhead0331 and Odyvek for providing/confirming most of this information)

Bentmah:
hey i have same problem and am trying to use this fix but i cannot find a settings.dat at all in any folder any suggestions?

x4000:
In order to get a settings.dat file, you do indeed need to run it once (please don't post settngs.dat files, anyone, as they have your license keys embedded in them).  To get the game to run once, you'll have to temporarily shut off Kapersky, then you can update the settings.dat, and then you can get the game itself to run while Kaspersky is still online.  Hope that helps!

Bentmah:
tried that again and prior to posting it still wont run >< very frustrating has the same error: Fatal error in gc
                                                                                                                           GetThreadContextFailed

now it always counts to 9 before doing this so i asume that is the game loader or something?
i have left it for quite some time to and it does not pass 9

x4000:
I'm not sure what to say, beyond that, not having ever used Kapersky myself.  The problem is something in their program, which was fixed in their later version.  I'm not sure if that version costs money or not, but if not it's definitely worth an upgrade.  If not, then I'm suspecting that Kapersky is not actually fully shut down yet.  Step 9 is when it does the check for updates.

Hold on a sec, I should be able to give you a temporary non-license-key-filled settings.dat that you can use...

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