Startup problems - SOLVED!

[Devourer]

Hi everyone

I found that I could play the game after the initial install but upon rebooting my PC it wouldn't start.

After checking here I had a look at my warnings.log file and found that it was erroring out because it couldn't find a Engine\Data directory.

I simply created this directory with nothing in it and it worked fine!

Just thought that I would feed this back to try and help anyone else.

Devourer

[ÜberJumper]

Can you delete/rename that directory and confirm the game won't start with it missing?

Did you have any problems during the initial install?

[Devourer]

Sure thing.... yep completly reproduceable. The directory is empty when you are not playing the game (not sure about during game play).

I rename/delete the engine\data\ dir and then try and run the game (either using the CD autorun or just running the 40k.exe file) and the HDD seeks for a while and then the CD spins up and seeks for a bit and then - nothing!

My warnings.log file:

W40K started at 2004-09-29 09:16
OS NT 5.1, 512MB Physical Memory
RUN-OPTIONS
WORKING-DIR C:\Games\Dawn of War
USER Me

09:16:17.0 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=AMD Athlon:f=6,m=8, Mode=SSE
09:16:17.1 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'engine\data\'
09:16:17.1 GAME -- Failed to aliased engine data folder
09:16:17.1 AppInitGlobal -- Failed load for step: ''

Application closed without errors


And no - I had no issues installing the game. I even uninstalled the beta and the demo first.

Hope this helps.... gotta go crush some Chaos scum! :D

[ÜberJumper]

Very strange, I wonder why that directory didn't install...

[Devourer]

I played the game fine directly after installation. It just seemed to disappear.