EC Window Closing on starting

[Madrid]

When I run the EC Client Exec the window starts to appear then closes itself. This just starting happening out of the blue.

I'm thinking I may have some maleware or virus that's causing trouble.

Has anyone had this happen where the client starts to load and the window appears then to boot then suddenly closes itself?

I load EC....menu pops and up patches..then I hit the Play and game window appears to open then quickly closes itself.

 

[Madrid]

I've run EC as Administrator in Windows Vista, downloaded the EC Client again...same thing happens. Client starts then closes itself.

Windows Firewall turned off. Made sure SA client was unblocked. 2d Client works and I can get in game but I CANNOT play on that client.

The previous night my computer froze and started running slow and I powered it down without rebooting. So I'm thinking I have some sort of maleware/virus and has caused something to change.

Any chance that something was changed in the registry that is now preventing EC Client from loading?

If anyone has any other advice or input I'd appreciate it.

Otherwise I'm going to have to wipe my harddrive or get a new one.

 

[Gilmour]

Operation system?
did you install directx 9.0c?

do your pc meet the requirements as shown on Enhanced Client - UOGuide, the Ultima Online encyclopedia ?

 

[Madrid]

Operation system?
did you install directx 9.0c?

do your pc meet the requirements as shown on Enhanced Client - UOGuide, the Ultima Online encyclopedia ?

Thanks for responding Gilmour.

I've been playing the EC Client on this computer for about a year and a half now on Windows Vista. Yesterday I was doing fine.

Then this morning computer was acting sluggish/weird and I powered off without closing down. Took 30 mins to get the computer to reboot back to desktop.

So I'm wondering if something may have happened to the registry via a virus.

I downloaded Direct X 11 today and still won't work.

Should I try 9.0c?

 

[Madrid]

I've installed EC Client on VMWare and tried to run in safe mode and get the following message :

Could not create hardware renderer. Click OK to try software emulation. Please note this will seriously degrade performance

Odd weird that I'm the first person have these issues.

I'm not sure what that message means.

Unless someone has an idea where or why I'm having trouble only thing I can see to do is to wipe my harddrive and re-install everything.

 

[Storm]

I have not seen or heard of this issue! have you run a virus scan?

 

[Madrid]

I've done just about everything I can think of.

Virus scan and Malware (AVG/CCLeaner/Maleware byes). Tried in safe mode and VM. Updated Video Drivers and Direct X.

Re-installed EC Client.

What was interesting was that trying to run the client in VM gave me the same error as safe mode.

When I just try and open from desktop and hit play the window closes itself with no warning.

I'm no expert but it's probably something simple.

Hopefully this doesn't happen to anyone else cause it's a real bummer. I can't play in the godawful 2D Client!

 

[Madrid]

Just in case anyone else happens to read this thread...

I ended up formating my hard drive, reinstalling Windows Vista and installing EC Client and now everything is back to normal.

Thank god for external hard drives to store your data.

 

[bellamae]

only problem I just started getting is when im in game about 30 min of play my screen shuts down and it says no signal....I get it from none of the other games i play online...

 

[RawHeadRex]

after thirty minutes it sounds like heat is building up in the gpu... is the video card fan spinning or is there any dust in the gpu heatsink ?

 

[bellamae]

No i checked that....I can play WWII onlinr for 7 hours and nothing happenes all started after last patch...just my luck