JBricks Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 This is weird.. I have MVP 2005 on one drive, and MVP 2005 (w/ 2007) mod on another hard drive. Windows XP. Everything worked fine yesterday... Now today, NEITHER one works. I double-click the .EXE file, the game starts up, the bar loads to about 90%... then stops. Its not drive or file related, because they are on separate hard drives (not separate partitions). I did not modify them in any way. So it must be a operating system issue. Oh, I forgot to mention.. I have a dual boot machine w/ Windows Vista. In Windows Vista, both versions load fine. I have installed some programs since I ran it yesterday. Is anyone aware of any conflicts? Anyone have any ideas how I can dig into this deeper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBricks Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 Well, I ended all non-essential Windows processes, and now the game works. Now, I just have to find out which one was causing the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBricks Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 In case anyone finds this for future reference, my offender was the Comodo Firewall. Solutions 1. Close the taskbar program. End cmdagent.exe. OR 2. Add mvp2005.exe w/ all permissions. Allow invisible attempts and skip advanced security checks. This may apply for all firewalls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaptorQuiz Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 lol after reading the first post I was immediately going to ask if you had a firewall - specifically comodo. But yes, I see that you've solved the issue. Congratulations - AND thanks for posting a solution for others to see once you determined the problem. And - belated: Welcome to MVPmods.com! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro23 Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 In case anyone finds this for future reference, my offender was the Comodo Firewall. Solutions 1. Close the taskbar program. End cmdagent.exe. OR 2. Add mvp2005.exe w/ all permissions. Allow invisible attempts and skip advanced security checks. This may apply for all firewalls. Yeah, Kraw made a post about this awhile back: A lot of people are having problems with the game crashing, here is some info when I put 07 together I was using Kerio firewall, the game played fine and installed fine I recently got a new computer and it really did not like kerio, so I have tried just about every firewall program out there Here are my results, NONE of them like MVP 2005 or the 07 mod The 07 mod installs at the command line level, and most of these firewalls are now more that just firewalls, they monitor programs and decide it they should have access to what it is trying to do. When most people install a firewall they pick EASY and not Advanced so they never get a pop up window asking if it is OK for the program to do its thing, the program is just reject without the user even knowing Of the programs I have tried ALL f**k with the installing of 07 or playing the game Zone Alarm Comodo Jetico Personal Firewall Safety.Net PC-Cillin plus some other I can not remember Spyware & Antivirus software with program control will do the same thing Any firewall with it weight will stop the game at the loading screen when it is about 90% done loading, it is at that point MVP wants to act as a server (if you do not allow it the game will crash). All I have tried except Comodo gave me a pop up screen (but like I said most people turn off the pop ups), Comodo just crashed the game the best way to install is to disable your local area connection in the control panel, exit all firewalls, spyware & antivirus software Run the installer reable your local area connection reboot once rebooted, give MVP2005.exe premission to act as a server in all your firewall, spyware & antivirus software Why can't a firewall just be a firewall anymore, WTF is up with all this program control, it is almost as bad as vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBricks Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 lol after reading the first post I was immediately going to ask if you had a firewall - specifically comodo. But yes, I see that you've solved the issue. Congratulations - AND thanks for posting a solution for others to see once you determined the problem. And - belated: Welcome to MVPmods.com! I expected that Comodo would've prompted me if there was a problem, but perhaps MVP was doing something simple like seeking a LAN and the OS didn't like that. In any case, no problem for posting the solution. I see a TON of open threads around here, so I figured I'd at least try to remedy that in my situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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