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KsLIVER
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#1 - 2012-02-17 21:11:52 UTC  |  Edited by: KsLIVER
Hey all,

Sorry for cross-post, but help is most needed... GF is gone for the weekend, so I have the big TV all to myself - only problem is my Eve client won't work on the PC connected to it! 50 mill ISK to the peep that helps! Petition hasn't suggested any fixes in 5 days... I'm getting desperate.

Here's the 'issue' forum post: Link

Hugs... 50 million ISK for help that solves the prob!
Ezurae
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-02-17 21:26:45 UTC
your problem is the games explorer of windows. If it doesnt know a game it wants to retrieve information about it from the internet. If the game explorer is blocked this is not possible and the game just doesnt start properly. Temporary fix is to start eve, let it hang in the windows processes and start it again. the second instance of the game will work, after that one started properly just end the other "broken" process.

Unfortunately you can't disable the "feature" of the windows games explorer that creates this problem, the only way to fix it is to allow the games explorer to check information about the game on the internet. After that happened (only has to be done once if its an unknown game) and the game explorer "knows" what it wants to know the game will always start properly. My guess is your firewall is blocking the games explorer, for me it was the gameux.dll which i had blocked and had to unblock. If you cant find a rule for that dll or the game explorer in your firewall just disable it temporarily.

Note, that if you change the location of the game the game explorer will need an internet connection again before you can start the game for the first time from that new location. After the game explorer got all the information for the game it won't prevent you from starting that game again from that location, always only has to be done once.
KsLIVER
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#3 - 2012-02-17 21:42:22 UTC
Ezurae wrote:
your problem is the games explorer of windows. If it doesnt know a game it wants to retrieve information about it from the internet. If the game explorer is blocked this is not possible and the game just doesnt start properly. Temporary fix is to start eve, let it hang in the windows processes and start it again. the second instance of the game will work, after that one started properly just end the other "broken" process.

Unfortunately you can't disable the "feature" of the windows games explorer that creates this problem, the only way to fix it is to allow the games explorer to check information about the game on the internet. After that happened (only has to be done once if its an unknown game) and the game explorer "knows" what it wants to know the game will always start properly. My guess is your firewall is blocking the games explorer, for me it was the gameux.dll which i had blocked and had to unblock. If you cant find a rule for that dll or the game explorer in your firewall just disable it temporarily.

Note, that if you change the location of the game the game explorer will need an internet connection again before you can start the game for the first time from that new location. After the game explorer got all the information for the game it won't prevent you from starting that game again from that location, always only has to be done once.


As per other thread, this didn't work for me... I disabled firewall and checked in the games explorer to ensure settings were disabled / working (nice game pictures, etc).
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#4 - 2012-02-17 21:52:30 UTC
Will the game start properly if you have a standard computer monitor attached to the computer instead of the TV?

If so, you could have the game set to a resolution that the TV can't handle.

Also, how is the TV connected to the computer (video connection)? HDMI?

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Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#5 - 2012-02-17 22:29:07 UTC
Just letting everyone know a solution (and the actual problem) has been found... and it is in the other thread (linked in his OP).
KsLIVER
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#6 - 2012-02-17 23:21:59 UTC
Corina Jarr wrote:
Just letting everyone know a solution (and the actual problem) has been found... and it is in the other thread (linked in his OP).


Thanks Corina....

Yup - All fixerd up. Now I can play Big Eve and drink Beer Beer....