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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: fishnhunts on August 23, 2012, 04:56:47 PM

Title: Initialization error
Post by: fishnhunts on August 23, 2012, 04:56:47 PM

Hey guys, I've been experiencing a problem when trying to open Aces High.  Whenever I try to open the game up it says "Initialization failed with -9  Main WLD_FAILED -1."

The other day I had to do a system restore because my internet would not work.  Restore fixed my internet but whenever I tried to open AH I got that message.  I reinstaled AH and flew a couple of sorties with no issue last night.  For some reason my internet quit again, so I restored again and got the same message.  I just wanted to see if there was anything that I could do before I reinstalled again.  Thanks for the help!

-Brian

Title: Re: Initialization error
Post by: The Fugitive on August 23, 2012, 06:38:22 PM

System restore can do all kinds of things to the game. I think that error means the game can't find something it needs to run. Delete any desktop icon you have, then reinstall the game over the existing game.

Title: Re: Initialization error
Post by: Skuzzy on August 24, 2012, 06:13:21 AM

The Windows restore function does not restore data.  It will almost always leave the game in a bad state.  It is a limitation of how that restore function works.  There is nothing we can do about it.

Everytime you use the restore function you should re-install the game over the top of the existing installation in order to keep the game from being corrupted by the restore feature.