DC Crashes at start, cant play game

[optimal_prism]

Ok I fire up the game, and after I go through the intros and it comes up to the green Dark Crusade loading screen where it says "Loading, Please Wait..." on the bottom.

Now 3 seconds after it gets to this stage it crashes to the desktop.

My warnings log:
19:11:01.68 DARKCRUSADE started at 2007-03-25 19:11
19:11:01.68 OS NT 5.1, 504MB Physical Memory
19:11:01.68 RUN-OPTIONS
19:11:01.68 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War - Dark Crusade
19:11:01.68 USER Owner
19:11:01.68
19:11:05.03 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=INTEL Pentium-IV:f=15,m=2, Mode=SSE
19:11:05.03 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'
19:11:05.03 GAME -- Warning: Failed to map folder 'Engine\Locale\english\Data'.
19:11:05.03 GAME -- Warhammer, 1.2, Build 96815
19:11:05.03 GAME -- Available memory: 503MB RAM, 1309MB Pagefile
19:11:05.03 State::State - set socket send buffer to 131072
19:11:05.03 State::State - set socket receive buffer to 131072
19:11:05.03 HostState - 192.168.1.100:6112 / 192.168.1.100:6112
19:11:05.03 Session : Now Host
19:11:05.03 Session : We are now a Host
19:11:05.03 PeerState - 192.168.1.100:6112 / 192.168.1.100:6112
19:11:05.03 PeerState::ConnectCallbackHost - connecting to host at 255.255.255.255:6112
19:11:05.03 GSTransport::Connect - GT2AddressError
19:11:05.03 SPOOGE - Driver[Dx9 : Hardware TnL] on adapter[0], version[4,32]
19:11:05.03 SPDx9 -- Driver Name = nv4_disp.dll Device = \\.\DISPLAY1 Desc = NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000
19:11:05.03 SPDx9 -- Driver Vendor = 0x10DE Device = 0x0185 SubSys = 0x11151554 Rev = 0x00C1
19:11:05.03 SPDx9 -- Driver Version Product = 0x0006 Version = 0x000E SubVersion = 0x000A Build = 0x249B (9371)
19:11:05.03 SPDx9 -- Driver GUID = {D7B71E3E-42C5-11CF-7F52-1F3160C2CB35}
19:11:05.03 SPOOGE -- 302.00MB available texture memory
19:11:05.03 SPOOGE -- 302.00MB available texture memory
19:11:05.03 GAME -- Beginning FE
19:11:05.18 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:dxp_relic_intro.lua'
19:11:07.06 MOVIE -- Closing movie 'movies:dxp_relic_intro.lua'
19:11:07.06 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:nvidia_logo.lua'
19:11:07.82 MOVIE -- Closing movie 'movies:nvidia_logo.lua'
19:11:07.82 MOVIE -- Opening movie 'movies:dow_intro.lua'
19:11:08.17 MOVIE -- Closing movie 'movies:dow_intro.lua'
19:11:08.17 FE -- Loading front end.
19:11:08.17 FE -- Cursor hidden.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Initializing Mod dxp2, 1.0
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to load archive 'W40k\W40kDataGOTY.sga'
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Locale\english\Data'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Shared_Textures\Full'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Sound\Med'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Music'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'DXP2\Data_Whm\High'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Locale\english\Data'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Shared_Textures\Full'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Sound\Med'.
19:11:12.09 MOD -- Warning: Failed to open folder 'W40k\Data_Whm\High'.
19:11:12.09 WXP Mod Init -- Failed load for step: 'Meta Map Campaign'
19:11:12.09 Mod Interface Init -- Failed load for step: 'Mod Init'
19:11:12.09 GAME -- Failed to initialize MOD 'dxp2'!
19:11:12.09 FE -- Failed to init MOD!
19:11:12.09 GAME -- Ending FE
19:11:12.09 GAME -- Shutdown quit
19:11:12.50 SPOOGE -- 299.00MB available texture memory
19:11:12.50 SPOOGE -- 299.00MB available texture memory
19:11:12.54
Application closed with error code 4


After reading the warnings log. I opened up control panel and clicked remove on DC, and selected the "repair" option, but it didnt help even after I did it 1 more time.


Can somebody please help me? I cant play DC.

[CommodoreKitty]

It is a pain in the ass, but I would uninstall/reinstall. Failing that, it could be your card, it's been giving you a lot of crap lately.

[Stormsong]

It's definitely a game problem: 19:11:12.09 GAME -- Failed to initialize MOD 'dxp2'!
19:11:12.09 FE -- Failed to init MOD!

I'd say you should reinstall.

[optimal_prism]

Well the reapir option IS the same as reinstall. It just resintalls everything you installed in the previous installation.

Btw this probly happened becuase I extracted the DXP2data.sga folder with mod toold to get some icons out, this started happening after I did that, even tohugh I extracted it outside the game folder into the desktop, the game didnt work.

[Stormsong]

I meant uninstall, then reinstall the game, rather than using the repair option.

[GroundZero]

Btw this probly happened becuase I extracted the DXP2data.sga folder with mod toold to get some icons out, this started happening after I did that, even tohugh I extracted it outside the game folder into the desktop, the game didnt work.

Theres your cause and...

I'd say you should reinstall.

theres the solution!


With all unpacking and repacking of files, you have to be sure that the original files are left unmodified or errors like this can creep up. Generally, making a backup of all files that will be touched would be a sensible move in the future.

[optimal_prism]

Ok I found the problem without having to reinastall.

I had left some folders, after i archived. I guess I forgot to delete them.

Thanks though for the help.