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Aimless
9th Nov 05, 5:19 PM
Im not sure if this problem has been discussed here before, sorry if theres a thread on it but i couldnt find one.

I recently got WA and installed DW again, then WA and when I try to play any game there are no errors at all but once im in the game the UI buttons are just full of blank spaces. The energy and requisition bars are full of 0000 and I cant build anything by selecting a worker and pressing the B key or give any other hotkey command. I can however move units, capture points, put units into buildings etc with my mouse (my keyboard works fine when not in game). The game seems to run fine with no slowdowns or lag when online, its just that most ways of controlling units are missing :S

After uninstalling everything, updating all my drivers and installing the original DoW again I could play the unpatched version of DoW without any problems but after i updated my DoW from the WA disk I had the exact same problem when playing DoW(not expansion). Please give me some advice on this. Iv now reinstalled everything again and the result is the same, there are no error messages at any point. The only way to close the game is to Alt Tab and right click (F10 has no effect in game).

TBS
9th Nov 05, 5:31 PM
warnings.log please

Is your version of WA from the same country as your version of DoW?

Have you ever had any mods installed?

Aimless
9th Nov 05, 5:57 PM
warnings.log:
"W40K started at 2004-10-31 17:55
OS NT 5.1, 1023MB Physical Memory
RUN-OPTIONS
WORKING-DIR C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War
USER Someone

17:55:21.8 PLATFORM -- Duplicate instance of app
17:55:21.8 APP -- The Application Failed to Initialize the Platform Window
17:55:21.8 AppInitGlobal -- Failed load for step: ''

Application closed without errors"

Both DoW and WA purchased in the same game store in England, and they are both in english :P

Im not sure about mods actually cause its been a while, I may have tried to install some tho I never played any. I did uninstall DoW completely a while ago, if there are any remains of mods should they all be in the C:\Program Files\THQ\Dawn of War folder?

Moe
10th Nov 05, 5:23 AM
Yes, and at this point I would recommend a clean reinstall:
Uninstall DoW
Manually delete the DoW folder
Install DoW, install WA.

Aimless
10th Nov 05, 6:40 AM
It works now, thankyou deleting the folder seems to have done it, didnt realise it was still there after the uninstall.