Help, my SEIV Program is choking

[General Woundwort]

Whenever I try to start SEIV, it starts to load and hangs up at 4%. I have to End Program to get it to unlock. Do any computer gurus out there have any suggestions?

[geoschmo]

Make sure Path.txt is set to none.

Move the contents of the Space Empires/temp folder to another place. Don't delete them just yet, see if that fixes it first.

If neither of those work I'd be thinking about reinstalling, unless someone else has an idea.

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Whenever I try to start SEIV, it starts to load and hangs up at 4%. I have to End Program to get it to unlock. Do any computer gurus out there have any suggestions?

And I thought I was the only one having such a problem. Glad to know I have company. But why would re-installing help? I mean, you'll have to re-install all of the mods too. I don't see how that would cure anything.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
I mean, you'll have to re-install all of the mods too. I don't see how that would cure anything.

Well, if the path.txt file is set to none, I would guess the problem is not a mod. Reinstalling would overwrite all the stock files and shouldn't affect the mods at all unless you uninstall first, which I don't suggest without at least trying a reinstall over the top once to see if it works. Of course don't forget to repatch to 1.84 after reinstalling.

Geoschmo

[ December 23, 2003, 19:48: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Fyron]

Uninstalling a program (especially a game) rarely deletes customized files. I don't know about the case of SE4, but I would imagine that Aaron would not be mean and forcibly delete the folder SE4 was installed into if doing so deletes customized files.

[ December 23, 2003, 19:58: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[oleg]

Indeed. I unistalled SEIV few times and non of my mod files has been deleted.