Crashes when trying to start - again!

Marcato · Post by **Marcato** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:07 pm

F-ck!

Every time I try to start the game I immediately get the familiar "Silkroad.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience" message. This seems to happen at least every week or every two weeks. What the hell is going on?

AyaChan · Post by **AyaChan** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:19 pm

Have you tried re-downloading the client (uninstall and remove all folders first - be sure to save your screenshots somewhere else!), and reinstalling it completely?

Also, have you done a spyware/virus scan? Also, seeing what programs are running in the background can generally help this too.

Marcato · Post by **Marcato** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:21 pm

AyaChan wrote:Have you tried re-downloading the client (uninstall and remove all folders first - be sure to save your screenshots somewhere else!), and reinstalling it completely?

Also, have you done a spyware/virus scan? Also, seeing what programs are running in the background can generally help this too.

It's got nothing to do with spyware or viruses. Like I said, this has happened to me several times before (and other people). For a few hours or a day or so, the program just crashes when you try to start it. Then for some reason it works again. I tried re-installing last time, that didn't help.

Pitros · Post by **Pitros** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:34 pm

it happened to me this WE... I D/l the client thrice before come to a solution... if your problem is the same than mine was, and just in case, a check won't hurt :

right-click on the SRO client, then go to Properties, and make shure that the "protect system while using this*" box is unckecked

mine was, and since it isn't anymore, SRO rus as smoothly as ever!

yay !

hope this was clear, but : Im not on my 'puter right now, and can't check the exact name and way to get to that box.

howerer, i'll see to that tonight and make a better post

Marcato · Post by **Marcato** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:40 pm

Pitros wrote:it happened to me this WE... I D/l the client thrice before come to a solution... if your problem is the same than mine was, and just in case, a check won't hurt :

right-click on the SRO client, then go to Properties, and make shure that the "protect system while using this*" box is unckecked

mine was, and since it isn't anymore, SRO rus as smoothly as ever!

yay !

hope this was clear, but : Im not on my 'puter right now, and can't check the exact name and way to get to that box. howerer, i'll see to that tonight and make a better post

Huh? In Windows XP I've never seen an option remotely like "protect system while using this*". There sure ain't no such option in the properties for the client.

Marcato · Post by **Marcato** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:15 pm

And now it works again...five minutes ago it didn't, and I haven't even restarted my computer.

Weird.

Geobot · Post by **Geobot** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:32 pm

if it happens again, check this thread. i had a similar problem before also, but not anymore.

http://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=742&highlight=host

Pitros · Post by **Pitros** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:16 pm

well... whats weirder is that i wanted to make a quick tuto... and didn't found it either... :banghead:

but i'm positive that it's what i used yesterday to get SRO running again ! :oops:

so any advices might still be useful...

Pitros · Post by **Pitros** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:34 pm

okay i found the exact tip i used :

as i said right-click on your silkroad icon, then "run as"*

you should have a screen saying : "on what user account would you like to rus this progam ?" and 2 choices :

-"this user " -> wich will use

or

-"specify user"

under the selected "this user" you'll have a checkbox saying :
"protect this computer and its data against unauthorised acces"

uncheck this, and run silkroad... this actually worked for me so I hope it'll work for you as well !
... and don't worry about unothorised access: tha check-box was chacked again last time i played and it ran smoothly as ever !

* please forgive me if the actual names are not the one dispayed on your screen, I run a french version of XP... ->all names are a "on the go" translation of what i have... and since my English is <insert comment here>... :wink: