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bunkeroobill
Double Bogey
Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 22
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:18 pm |
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Over the past month the game has been getting very buggy after the patches. I've managed to get the game working despite encountering these bugs, so Clublink asked me to post some suggestions:
Lock ups during patching This problem occurred after the patch around 8/19:
I get 100% through update 71/71 and the patch freezes. After taking MadMedic's suggestion to mess with the registry, I have been able to finish the next patch (5/5) and the game now works. Basically, I looked at my ShotOnline International directory and realized there isn't a ShotOnline-International.exe file which lead me to believe that registry entries referring to it made no sense.
So here is the fix (use at your own risk, I am no expert)
Open the Start Menu and pick Run
type "Regedit"
At the top, click Edit then Find (or Ctrl-F)
you want to search for "ShotOnline"
now, once it finds a result, see if the right hand side shows something like C:\Program Files\Shot Online International\ShotOnline-International.exe (the key is the International.exe part)
If it does, right click on the registry entry and select Delete. If not, ignore it and hit F3 to search again. I had 2 occurrences with the -International.exe in it. Do not delete any ShotOnline references that do not say -International.exe
Messing with your registry can cause significant computer problems. Please use at your own risk.
Problems where the game starts, you log in, and then the game crashes This problem occurred after the maintenance around 8/31. Other users posted that the problem was caused by GameGuard and that deleting your GameGuard folder will let you back in... until GameGuard patches the latest version again, which then causes the problem to recur. I took this fix a step further and took it a step further:
Open up the C:\Program Files\ShotOnline International folder. Delete the entire GameGuard folder. Run ShotOnline. It should re-install GameGuard for you. Assuming you are now able to get into Shot-Online, after you exit, go back to C:\Program Files\ShotOnline International again. This time right click on the GameGuard folder and click the checkbox that says "Read Only". You may have to click it a couple times - you want it to have a solid WHITE background with a checkmark in it. If the background is grey you need to click the box some more.
What this does is prevent GameGuard from patching itself because it can't write new versions of files. Somewhere down the road you can probably delete the GameGuard folder again and let the program reinstall a working version of GameGuard, but I've been running fine for a week+ with my write-protected version.
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zitlips
Par
Joined: 18 Aug 2008
Posts: 96
Location: Boise, Idaho
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Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:35 am |
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I hope those suggestions help. As stated, messing with your registery files can indeed be very risky.
I do have a question though. Maybe someone could create a poll for those who are having problems staying online.
The poll would ask " Do you use Norton software"...or.."how many anti-virus programs do you use?"
I would really be interested in the results of those polls.
Fact is, I never seem to have any of the problems others seem to be having. |
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