Game Doesn't Start (MORAL: Delete groups.cache Before Posting)
akatonbo:
I'm stumped -- got home today, downloaded a few things (one mod, dolphin26's Servos Recharge at Night, the rest just ordinary custom content), went to start up the game... it showed the splash screen, then nothing. The CD drive went quiet and the executable didn't show up in the list of processes running. Rebooted, made sure the CD drive was behaving (stuck a DVD full of AVIs in it and tested a few), tried setting up a shortcut to run the game in windowed mode... nothing. I was playing last night. Nothing was behaving oddly, nothing's changed except for that handful of downloads, which I know couldn't stop the game in its tracks THAT soon. I'm not even getting the EA and Maxis logos, so there isn't much I can do to troubleshoot, which I would normally do quite a bit of before bringing something here; I'm only hoping that someone already knows what might cause such a problem.
(For the record, I've got all actual EPs but no HP or FF, and I'm running WinXP Home with SP2 on a slightly over a year old Dell Dimension 8400, 3GHz processor, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon X300. Have been successfully playing with no significant problems for several months, albeit not terribly much since the OFB install.)
yetyak:
Did you delete the groups.cache file? Often times that will do the trick.
cwieberdink:
Hmmm.. I was having this exact thing happen the other day during my game problems. I fixed it by finishing my reinstall. That's weird that you're having this without having uninstalled anything. What happens if you take out the new cc?
C
akatonbo:
Durrrr, I R smrt. Thanks, yetyak -- I know about groups.cache but I hadn't thought to try it, probably because I don't have to do it often and forgot. -.-
yetyak:
I've been having to do it alot lately, so it came right to mind! ;)
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