[Gibbs]

Hello there. Old Wing Commander fan here. 

The game fails to launch after install.

Here is my setup.

AMD 3000+
1 Gig ram.
7900 GTO 512mb [pci-express]
Windows XP Pro SP2, Fully up to date


No tray apps. Clean, "Trouble free" system. Problems are very rare overall.
Nod32 anti-virus version 2.7 running in background.

Repair installation tried from add/remove. Will attempt uninstall/ registry entry cleaning and re-install. Also will try disabling NOD32 background scanning.

temp dir is empty and cleaned out regularly [docs and settings/username/local settings/temp]

Hopefully a re-install will fix it, quite eager to check this out!

Apologies in advance if this problem has been addressed or this post is in the wrong area.

[Shade]

Any error messages at all?

[Tolwyn]

Hmm... did you change the default configuration? Did you install OpenAL? Like Shade already said: any error messages?

[Gibbs]

Negative. No error messages. Sorry, should have mentioned that in my original post. Double clicking the desktop shortcut yields no activity, and watching process manager no processes are even launched and immediately quit as sometimes happens when things fail to launch properly.

I did allow OpenAL to install and it reported installed successfully during the original install procedure. Although I already had OpenAL on the system I believe.

[Tolwyn]

So, what happens, when you start the game?

[Gibbs]

I finally ran the config module and was able to load the game.

Here was my folly -

I was only attempting to load the game from the desktop shortcut, thankfully after making a pot of coffee and returning, I did the unthinkable - I hit my start menu and checked for the Wing Commander Saga Prologue section and found the configuration program

So this was mainly my fault, but also, I recommend placing a shortcut or script to run the configuration after installation. I unchecked "run prologue" or launch prologue, after installing, which may be why I ran into this problem in the first place.

Apologies for the waste of space here. [embarrassed]

[Tolwyn]

I am curious: did you change anything?

[Gibbs]

Nothing was configured initially. I just enabled everything in the "features" tab. List type was graphics, I clicked the easy setup pulldown and basically told it to turn everything on.

Changing the pulldown type from graphics to other ones automatically closed the confguration program without an error.

I just noticed that the OpenAL section notes no audio device.

I'll have to look into this closer in an hour. Right now, I feel like one of those guys I normally roll my eyes at...I seem to be having some strange problems. I'm a very thorough guy who keeps the system up to date but I also keep things simple, I dont over tweak.

I'll report my findings back this afternoon when I have more time to mess with it [crosses fingers]

[Huggybaby]

Reinstall the latest OpenAL. If the one that came with the installer is older than the one you had installed already, it will break OpenAL. I canceled out of the OpenAL part for that reason. Curiously even when you do so, the OpenAL installer still tells you it was installed successfully.

[Tolwyn]

This sounds like the installer failed to write launchers into the registry. Full admin rights are required to setup the game properly. OpenAL supplied with the game is the latest version, released in mid December.