Guest Guest Posted August 14, 2005 Report Posted August 14, 2005 Someone has to find a solutiob to the "continuum wont open " error this is serious. Its effected like 100 people including me.
»SOS Posted August 14, 2005 Report Posted August 14, 2005 Basically, there's only one person who can do this and he's not very interested in doing this...
»Maverick Posted August 14, 2005 Report Posted August 14, 2005 Its usually caused by software around Continuum then Continuum itself; however Continuum self should be modified too. Alot of users has already experienced that some anti-spyware or antivirus software caused this problem.
Guest Guest Posted August 14, 2005 Report Posted August 14, 2005 wow this is wierd i tried to open continuum today and it worked...i didnt even do anything YAY!
candygirl Posted August 14, 2005 Report Posted August 14, 2005 The way i download the game is "i save it to my Desktop before I click on run. After doing so everything works good. I have yet to have errors running continuum. I never shut down anti-spyware or antivirus software. And i have both micro and freedom firewall running when i do so. Looks to me the new players to be are doing something wrong. What it is we dont know.
Maximas Posted August 15, 2005 Report Posted August 15, 2005 The fact that your a girl strikes me as obvious to your last statement. This problem is not specific to the people running it but programs and there file extensions being open while trying to execute continum. There are many other software's out there that I think have a huge affect on the program and I have yet to isolate the problem on my computer. Just today I got my cable hooked up after I moved and re-installed the client. After doing so any time I try to open it my window begins to glitch and I have to manually reboot my computer. Now I am fed up with this !@#$%^&* program because it just seems that more and more people will be affected as time goes on but nobody wants to do anything about it.
nocigar Posted August 16, 2005 Report Posted August 16, 2005 i too am a victim of this problem and i just want to play continuuim so bad. i've been trying every solution this whole summer and nothing worked
Maximas Posted August 16, 2005 Report Posted August 16, 2005 My initial soloution was to close all spyware and antivirus and firewall and run prog by selecting "run as" and it worked for me for a few months. you might want to try that..
»Maverick Posted August 16, 2005 Report Posted August 16, 2005 Do NOT run with "Run As.." mode since that will only screw up Continuum even more then you are now. The "Run As.." mode is a way to run a program with someone else's profile and rights, however, you also run the program in a way that Windows XP tries (yes, it never really succeeds) to prevent anything being written to the harddisk. This must be done in a weird way because the program still thinks it can. There are so many causes for this problem, including bad dll's (which might not even be from Continuum installation). Here is a list of things that might be related to, or even might sclve the problem: 1) Update Video drivers to the latest version and DirectX (http://www.windowsupdate.com)2) Make sure every test checks out ok with dxdiag (Start / Run / 'dxdiag' )2) Anti-Spyware & Anti-Virus (these shouldn't be the cause, at least not anti-virus)3) Try using this package (unzip in a different directory, then try to run Continuum.exe) I hope these will help to solve the problem. Let me know the outcome.
Maximas Posted August 16, 2005 Report Posted August 16, 2005 Glad to say I got subspace to work...after sitting for an hour thinking about possible soloutions and reading possible causes I came up with this one. Deleted my spyware, made shure that my anti-virus doesn't boot up with system restart and turned my firewall of...(knowing now that making exceptions more than likley will not help resolve the issue at hand) doing this I then restarted my computer and opened ss like normal and walla...Insto Continum. For all those out there with this issue I have sympathy and I will try to diagnose my problem one step at a tiime to determine what program,process,or applications in the background might cause this catastrophe and report back of the actuall cause to my case. I am no expert, but I figure if a lot more people are having this issue and they try many different avenues to fix this problem, if we make a post and compile research of probable outcomes to this issue we can steer clear of this huge epidemic. If you have been affected by the non-ability to play then you can sympathize with me and I would greatly encourage people to post reasons why there ss client dindn't work (Please know what your doing before troubleshooting). I do stress many thanks to mav for his reply promptly and ask mav if you would consider maybe a thread for "Possible Program Confliciotns"Thanks Maximas
»Maverick Posted August 16, 2005 Report Posted August 16, 2005 heh so I was right in the beginning.Good you keep searching for the exact problem, I look forward to the outcome.
Maximas Posted August 16, 2005 Report Posted August 16, 2005 I wil continue to search, and yes you were right...although the answer as specific as it could be...still very vauge to the point
Maximas Posted August 17, 2005 Report Posted August 17, 2005 What I found out so far. Norton System Works (and probably any Norton internet or antiv-virus) was conflicting with my ss client.I began to try exceptions to see if it would allow it, and what I discovered is that not only do I have to allow continum039pr1.exe but also had to allow, menu039pr1.dll, menures.dll and it actually allowed my client to run. (Didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that my error was stating that continum039pr1.exe-dll could not initiate so I figured if I allowed my .dll files it would accept the program and it did. Second of all for anyone out there who has Spyware Doctor (I would also recomend it, it has found many viruses and spyware out of all the other numerous spyware prog I have had.) there is a confliction as well with the client and even when I try to add all the exceptions that I can, it will not let me boot up ss. So all I did is disabled it to run at start-up and run it when I need to and close the program when I am done. Well that's what I have so far, and the asumption would be that for anyone out there that has anti-virus of firewalls if you don't know how to add correct exceptions then just disable them and play ss you'll atleast get to play ss for a few hours until hackers come in and steal everything.
Scavenger23 Posted August 17, 2005 Report Posted August 17, 2005 Yea, it won't start for me either. I tried what Maximas said, and it didn't work. (not to discourage you) It probably didn't work for me because I have Microsoft Visual Studio on my computer. And there is no way I am uninstalling that, it took a few hours to install. And who is PrittK?
»Maverick Posted August 17, 2005 Report Posted August 17, 2005 didn't work for me because I have Microsoft Visual Studio on my computerThat can't be causing the problem unless you totally messed with alot (ALOT) of Windows dlls
Scavenger23 Posted August 17, 2005 Report Posted August 17, 2005 Well, who is PrittK? And does anyone know what language this is written in?
Maximas Posted August 17, 2005 Report Posted August 17, 2005 Scav I agree with mav that can't be why it's not starting...you need to check in your process window in the task manager and see what processes you have open and see if any of them could be the issue. I know it looks like a big task, but I just sat there for an hour and thought about it before I touched anything. It really is just some commen sence that is going to pull you through this. If you can remember when was the last time you played it without any problems and then what you installed afterwards that will help big.Also any program that is desighned to scan other programs (hence anti-virus or spyware or firewall) should be put into consideration...the problem really will only be resolved if you start from a foundation of nothing really started up when you reboot your computer then just start one program at a time and try to open ss...when it doesn't open you might of found your soloution...Leave that program disabled when you start up and open/close it when it needs to be used. It might not be just one program though so keep that in mind. Question: This is just me thinking out loud but if ss client can run in safe mode then I would try to start it in safe mode and do what I suggested and open 1 prog at a time and check for compatability...but I am not to shure about certain programs even being able to initiate in safe mode...just me thinking out loud for the benifit of others..."even if it is a dumb idea "
Maximas Posted August 18, 2005 Report Posted August 18, 2005 This was a starting refrence to solving my issuehttp://www.ssforum.net/c/index.php?showtopic=6740
Paine Posted August 18, 2005 Report Posted August 18, 2005 Well, who is PrittK? And does anyone know what language this is written in? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry but that quote made my day.
Scavenger23 Posted August 18, 2005 Report Posted August 18, 2005 Well, who is PrittK? And does anyone know what language this is written in? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry but that quote made my day. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm glad that it did. Yea, I have no idea who PrittK is. I guess that makes me a noob.
Maximas Posted August 18, 2005 Report Posted August 18, 2005 Scav have you fixed your ss client yet? and by the way its not prittkit's priitk in the msg..if your going to quote make shure its correct.
»Maverick Posted August 18, 2005 Report Posted August 18, 2005 And who is PrittK?First we had subspace, that's the old client. It was made by VIE (Virgin Interactive). Since subspace was so "easy" to hack for cheats, people cheated too much and subspace died. Priitk, together with Mr. Ekted coded a new client, based on the subspace protocol called 'Continuum'. This is the client we are using today.
Scavenger23 Posted August 18, 2005 Report Posted August 18, 2005 No, I haven't tried to fix the client yet. So, priitk helped make the new client, and now it's basically abandoned? If they don't want to fix the problems, I say it's abandoned by the developers.
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