SidiuS
15th Oct 05, 3:07 PM
:cdance: This comes as a solution to the thread I posted earlier today :"WA used to PLAY FINE until YESTERDAY and now it's NOT INITIALIZING ".
If someone is having the same problem with me (probably meaning he could play the game normally for a period of time and suddenly he wouldn't be able to initialise it, or he might not be able to initialise at all from installation) he could try this as a possible solution. I state that I am no expert so DON'T think that what I did was based on knowledge. I just tried to fix the problem myself since noone would post any answer or help. And actually it was a very simple thing do.
So if your warning list looks like mine
<14:15:40.48 W40KWA started at 2005-10-15 14:15
14:15:40.48 OS NT 5.1, 479MB Physical Memory
14:15:40.48 RUN-OPTIONS
14:15:40.48 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War
14:15:40.48 USER Theo
14:15:40.48
14:15:40.48 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=unknown:f=6,m=13, Mode=SSE
14:15:40.48 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'engine\data\'
14:15:40.48 GAME -- Failed to aliased engine data folder
14:15:40.48 AppInitGlobal -- Failed load for step: 'File Path'
14:15:40.48
Application closed without errors>
then what you need to do is just go to the path where it says that doesn't exist and just create a new folder named just like the one that was missing. In my case I just created a folder named "Data" and the game started again normally. I played campaign, skirmish, online and everything was normal. At first I thought that this would be a quite stupid thing to do since a folder named Data should probably contain some kind of data but eventually it worked for me. I checked the folder after I quit the game only to find that it is just an empty folder (just as I created it) of which I don't know the use. There is no chance that I could have deleted this folder by mistake at first and as a result tha game would not initialize. So something else ought to be the cause. Probably updates, installation of other programs - to be honest I don't know what.
Probably I was the only one having this problem since I couldn't locate a exact post but in case that someone else encounters something like it I hope that this could be the solution.
If someone is having the same problem with me (probably meaning he could play the game normally for a period of time and suddenly he wouldn't be able to initialise it, or he might not be able to initialise at all from installation) he could try this as a possible solution. I state that I am no expert so DON'T think that what I did was based on knowledge. I just tried to fix the problem myself since noone would post any answer or help. And actually it was a very simple thing do.
So if your warning list looks like mine
<14:15:40.48 W40KWA started at 2005-10-15 14:15
14:15:40.48 OS NT 5.1, 479MB Physical Memory
14:15:40.48 RUN-OPTIONS
14:15:40.48 WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War
14:15:40.48 USER Theo
14:15:40.48
14:15:40.48 MATHBOX -- Version=5, Cpu=unknown:f=6,m=13, Mode=SSE
14:15:40.48 FILESYSTEM -- filepath failure, path does not exist 'engine\data\'
14:15:40.48 GAME -- Failed to aliased engine data folder
14:15:40.48 AppInitGlobal -- Failed load for step: 'File Path'
14:15:40.48
Application closed without errors>
then what you need to do is just go to the path where it says that doesn't exist and just create a new folder named just like the one that was missing. In my case I just created a folder named "Data" and the game started again normally. I played campaign, skirmish, online and everything was normal. At first I thought that this would be a quite stupid thing to do since a folder named Data should probably contain some kind of data but eventually it worked for me. I checked the folder after I quit the game only to find that it is just an empty folder (just as I created it) of which I don't know the use. There is no chance that I could have deleted this folder by mistake at first and as a result tha game would not initialize. So something else ought to be the cause. Probably updates, installation of other programs - to be honest I don't know what.
Probably I was the only one having this problem since I couldn't locate a exact post but in case that someone else encounters something like it I hope that this could be the solution.