berkoutskaia Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 Hi all, Like many of you here, I've just installed Flaming Cliffs ( No need to notice that I followed Wags' notice carefully ). After Install, I double-click on Lockon 1.1 icon with a lot of excitement, enter my activation key in the Starforce window, clicks on OK, and........ Nothing. The LO icon appears on the taskbar, I can hear the sound of the loading screen, the mouse pointer turns into the grey-yellow LO hourglass when in the middle of the screen (returns to normal windows pointer on the outer). And nothing more. I've waited quite long, but nothing goes forward... I defragged my disk, changed my GPU drivers, restarted many times and so on, I'm still stuck. If any of you has any suggestion (and I really mean ANY ! ), please tell me, I ain't got any idea left :D Thanks In Mud I Trust.
Merlin Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 You might try re-installing. what are your specs, might help out getting you fixed up
berkoutskaia Posted April 8, 2005 Author Posted April 8, 2005 Thx for answers ! I re-installed twice (by the way, I've got just 2 activations left :x). System specs: Asus A7V8X (VIA KT400) Athlon XP 2600+ (thouroughbred B) 1Go DDR-RAM GeForce Fx5200 SoundBlaster PCI128 Win XP Pro SP2 In Mud I Trust.
SwingKid Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 The first time you run the software, it registers some .dlls and sets up some configuration files. On my old Windows 98 system this can take a really long time. I've also seen it happen that the software freezes at this stage, but then after you restart the computer it loads normally after that. I don't know what the problem could be on Window XP though. What do you call "a long time"? Maybe you should wait longer, or restart the computer and try again without re-installing? I often walk away from my computer for up to ten minutes while it is loading and then it works, but my computer is much slower than yours. -SK
berkoutskaia Posted April 8, 2005 Author Posted April 8, 2005 Well, problem solved... It's just a matter of how patient you are. I had to wat 50 minutes for LO to start, but it looks really great now. Tnanks to you all ! In Mud I Trust.
gustav Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 You should read this, http://forum.lockon.ru/showpost.php?p=53819&postcount=3 , so you dont waste more activations. It's something that should have been told before...
Quirkitized Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 You should read this, http://forum.lockon.ru/showpost.php?p=53819&postcount=3 , so you dont waste more activations. It's something that should have been told before... Yeah, BS aint it....
SwingKid Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 Well, problem solved... It's just a matter of how patient you are. I had to wat 50 minutes for LO to start, but it looks really great now. Tnanks to you all ! 50 minutes?!? Wow, I hope that it will be faster the second time... Is your hard disk maybe almost full? -SK
Han Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 Hi all, Like many of you here, I've just installed Flaming Cliffs ( No need to notice that I followed Wags' notice carefully ). After Install, I double-click on Lockon 1.1 icon with a lot of excitement, enter my activation key in the Starforce window, clicks on OK, and........ Nothing. The LO icon appears on the taskbar, I can hear the sound of the loading screen, the mouse pointer turns into the grey-yellow LO hourglass when in the middle of the screen (returns to normal windows pointer on the outer). And nothing more. I've waited quite long, but nothing goes forward... I defragged my disk, changed my GPU drivers, restarted many times and so on, I'm still stuck. If any of you has any suggestion (and I really mean ANY ! ), please tell me, I ain't got any idea left :D Thanks In this case use the manual activation mode. DO NOT use automatic mode anymore - it'll take your activations. With Best Regards! Daniel Tuseyev Il-2: Battle of Stalingrad and Rise Of Flight projects manager
berkoutskaia Posted April 8, 2005 Author Posted April 8, 2005 Well, I actually used manual activation, and followed Dmut instructions. However, I need to wait approximately 1 hour each time I start FC, and that's not what I call comfortable. I've restarted my computer, de-activatid antivirus software, disabled Virual CD-ROM drives, but it doesn't help. My HDD has 60% of its capacity left (wich means 25Go left)... I'm beginning to think I made a huge mistake yesterday... In Mud I Trust.
ED Team Chizh Posted April 8, 2005 ED Team Posted April 8, 2005 To ALL Please try launch 1.1 via lockon.bat file in the root lockon 1.1 folder. Единственный урок, который можно извлечь из истории, состоит в том, что люди не извлекают из истории никаких уроков. (С) Джордж Бернард Шоу
berkoutskaia Posted April 8, 2005 Author Posted April 8, 2005 I already tried this one... doesn't help Thanks anyway, it feels better when you know some people are concerned about your problem ;) In Mud I Trust.
berkoutskaia Posted April 8, 2005 Author Posted April 8, 2005 I just discovered (thanks to STEFOSTEF) that I have only 2 Starforce related drivers in my non plug&play drivers. Looks like "starforce protection synchronisation drivers" are missing... does anyone have an idea how to fix this ??? In Mud I Trust.
Guest ruggbutt Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 I'm gonna have to say you have a bad install. Download FC again and reinstall it.
Kovy Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 weird, I have only 2 drivers too :confused: lockon takes 16 sec to start loading...which is quite long but not as long as Berkout Asus A7N8X-E (nForce2) + Athlon XP3000 + Geforce 4 ti 4200 (64 MB) + drivers 66.93+ 1 GB ram (dual chanel mode) win 2000 sp4 + direct-X 9c
Guest ruggbutt Posted April 8, 2005 Posted April 8, 2005 Starforce (1.x) and Starforce (2.x) on my rig.
berkoutskaia Posted April 8, 2005 Author Posted April 8, 2005 Well, could be that this synchronisation driver is for CD games only (STEFOSTEF was talking about SHIII) "Starforce (1.x) and Starforce (2.x) on my rig." Same. Crap, I'm stuck again :p In Mud I Trust.
Han Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 I'm gonna have to say you have a bad install. Download FC again and reinstall it. BUT before second install try to NOT uninstal previous attempt. This may save your activations. With Best Regards! Daniel Tuseyev Il-2: Battle of Stalingrad and Rise Of Flight projects manager
Dmut Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 berkoutskaia , Kovy you don't need more then 2 SF drivers to play FC. other SF drivers comes from other games. "There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble." Sun Tzu [sigpic]http://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic2354_5.gif[/sigpic]
berkoutskaia Posted April 9, 2005 Author Posted April 9, 2005 I got to look somewhere else then :( I played FC a bit this morning (I took a loooonnng breakfast to let it start :D), it's really great, but not easy to enjoy in these conditions :x In Mud I Trust.
berkoutskaia Posted April 10, 2005 Author Posted April 10, 2005 Problem Solved ! I spent the afternoon doing a complete system re-install (disk format etc...) And it worked, I can eventually enjoy Flamming Cliffs. There's just another problem to solve now : but I'm pretty sure ED will answer that next week :D Thanks all for your support ! In Mud I Trust.
Sky Eagle Posted April 10, 2005 Posted April 10, 2005 50 mins. ?!?!! Isn't that like MUTCH U other ppl allso have it ?
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