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DEFCON WON'T START! HELP!!

Postby 1SQ » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:47 pm

Since yesterday I cannot start DEFCON.Immediately after launching it says "Abnormal program termination" b4 the menu comes up.
This seems to have been building up as recently my games started crashing with the same error (sometimes when i'm about to win) and now it will not start at all.I have scanned defcon.exe with a free AV prog called Avast! because my Norton 2006 expired recently.Is Avast! antivirus any good?.

I don't know what else could be wrong besides a virus but any help will be appreciated.
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Postby frenchfrog » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:01 pm

Perhaps reinstall your video and sound drivers, also install the latest directx version.

(Perhaps the cause is the corruption of some system files ...)
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Postby NeoThermic » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:13 pm

Topic moved to Windows Troubleshooting :)

As per frenchfrog for the advice, although I would also suggest to have a look at Read me first before submitting a bug report!, as it contains all kinds of useful info :)

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Postby 1SQ » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:12 pm

UPDATE: Now im gettin a new error "Couldn't open language file: data/language/english.txt" b4 the error mentioned above.
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Postby frenchfrog » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:04 pm

Read NeoThermic advise and ...

Reinstall Defcon.

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