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Title: AH will not start
Post by: Bino on October 14, 2010, 07:42:17 PM

A small pop-up window entitled "ERROR" displays this message:

    Initialization failed with -9
    mainWLD_FAILED -1


Link to DxDiag info here (http://kenshelby.us/docs/DxDiag.txt)

Title: Re: AH will not start
Post by: Bino on October 14, 2010, 10:00:18 PM

Fixed it by
1.) renaming "settings" to "porked-settings"
and
2.) re-installing right over the old install

Still curious about that error message, though...   :headscratch:

Title: Re: AH will not start
Post by: usvi on October 26, 2010, 04:10:11 PM

Just got the same message myself,will try your fix. :salute

Title: Re: AH will not start
Post by: Skuzzy on October 26, 2010, 04:33:00 PM

It means the game executable cannot find the resources to start the game.  Usually from being moved to the desktop, instead of a shortcut being created to it.

Easy fix is to simply install the full version of the game over the top of the existing installation without removing the old installation.

Title: Re: AH will not start
Post by: usvi on October 27, 2010, 02:05:26 AM

Quote from: Skuzzy on October 26, 2010, 04:33:00 PM

It means the game executable cannot find the resources to start the game.  Usually from being moved to the desktop, instead of a shortcut being created to it.

Easy fix is to simply install the full version of the game over the top of the existing installation without removing the old installation.

Yup that worked.
Problem started after I flashed my bios but is fixed now. :salute