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Offline MalReynolds

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Windows Vista (or steam) error, either way, its terrible.
« on: November 02, 2009, 01:03:30 pm »
Last  night i played for an hour and then turned off the game by exiting to OS. The computer then went to Blue Screen of Death D:
Earlier today i tried to get on to play and it kept saying it failed to launch, even after i reinstalled it.

This is the exact error I get from windows when i try to open it.

Description:
  Stopped working

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01:   aiwar.exe
  Problem Signature 02:   2.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 03:   4addf3c0
  Problem Signature 04:   mscorlib
  Problem Signature 05:   2.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 06:   4a7cd8f7
  Problem Signature 07:   4618
  Problem Signature 08:   16e
  Problem Signature 09:   VZEVNFUPILSVC31Z3H5GTO45URXFKID3
  OS Version:   6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
  Locale ID:   1033


Not sure if that'll help but thats all the gibberish the thing would spit out. Anyways yeah, i need some help becuase i love this game.

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Re: Windows Vista (or steam) error, either way, its terrible.
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2009, 01:10:08 pm »
Hey there,

Sorry to hear about your troubles.  You might try looking in your steam folder for the game to see if there are any error messages logged there, (UnhandledExceptions.txt or similar). That would probably be in your steam folder for the game (on my computer it is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ai war fleet command), along with your settings.dat file.  You can try renaming settings.dat if that doesn't work, to see if maybe that was corrupted due to a disk error on save or something similar.

If you've reinstalled the game and that didn't fix it, then either settings.dat must be corrupt, or some part of .NET itself must have been corrupted.  You can always reinstall .NET if all else fails, but I'd be worried about hardware issues if you're finding corruption there.  Actually, with a bluescreen like that, it's something where I would recommend you do a test of your RAM with something like memtest86, or a disk scan with scandisk, just to make sure this isn't an early warning sign of a failing memory module or hard disk.

Hope that helps!
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