Re: Mechwarrior IV games just don't work now

One thing you could try is reinstalling the game. First, find the saved
games and put them where you can find them - maybe the desktop. After you
reinstall the game, move the saved games back to where they were in the
previous game folder.

"Jimmy S." <nosp@xxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Supamunky,

What did you install on your system between the time the game worked and
now?
Did you install any driver updates?

What is the exact error message you first receive before the "option
(tickbox)"?


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Supamunky Wrote:
=================
| I've had a bumpy experiance with the Mechwarrior IV games. But a few
months
| ago it was all going well. The games don't work now.
| The problem is that when I launch a game le's go with Mechwarrior IV
| Mercenaries as it's installed a the moment. It will launch then gibe me
an
| error message and also has an option (tickbox) to try and restart the
| application. Ticking or unticking the box makes not a lot of difference
as it
| may launch the game or just give me an error saying "Not in main thread"
and
| go away. If it does launch it will give me the license agreement and
launch.
| Then when you actually try to play, say go into an instant action or try
to
| play the campaign. It will crash and give me the error not in main
thread.
| Looking at the event viewer. It is saying stuff about a missing .dll
file.
| This doesn't seem right as there wasn't much difference between my PC
now
| than a few months ago.
| Attempting to resolve this. I've tried to get them to run with
compatibility
| modes. That wasn't very successful. I've also tried the compatability
| toolkit, but realised I don't really know what I'm doing with that. So
it's
| slow progress.
| All I'm asking is if anyone can help me out with this problem.




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