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FH2 Help / Support / Win7 - FH2 Won't Launch - Process starts but nothing more
« on: 27-05-2015, 19:05:37 »
I did a full reinstall of Windows 7 the other day and I'm struggling to get FH running again. Weird thing is, after I installed everything (BF2, patches, FH2) I copied over my old FH2 profile into My Docs, started the game as normal, jumped on the 762 server and played for 20 mins with absolutely no probs - just like before I did the rebuild.
Close the game down, try to launch it again... nothing. Restart machine, no change. The FH2 launcher starts but when I click on 'play' the splash screen disappears but the game doesn't start. If I go into Task Manager, FH2 is not running in Applications, but ForgottenHope2.exe *32 is running under Processes.
Did a complete uninstall and reinstall of BF2 and FH2 and the same thing happens - I can launch and play the game online absolutely normally the first time I run it, but then once I quit out I can't get the game to start again, even if I restart the machine. No errors, it just starts the Process (according to Task Manager) but then nothing more. Tried messing about with windowed mode, running as admin, compatibilty mode - no change... and I'm sure I never had any sort of problems before the rebuild, using exactly the same hardware and OS.
The only thing I can think of is something going weird in the profiles, and I'm doing something wrong.
When I first go into the FH2 launcher options after installing everything, the 'Login As' drop down just says <None> and I actually have no idea how you'd create a new account now - I can't see an option to create one. I'm copying my 0001 profile I saved from the old install to C:\Users\Username\Documents\Forgottenhp 2\Profiles, this then gives me my username/password to login with, it connects, I can play and all my controls are set up as before - one time only. FH seems then to be creating a 0002 profile in that folder, and no matter what I do deleting, recopying profiles etc. I can't get the game to start again.
How do you actually create an account if you're starting FH2 for the very first time these days? Maybe I need to do that before importing my old profile? Does your profile only need to be copied to the MyDocs\FH2 folder, or does it need to be copied somewhere else. Do you have to do anything with BF2 before running FH2 for the first time - don't see how you could create an account there either now the server is gone?
I'm really stumped so would appreciate any ideas!
Close the game down, try to launch it again... nothing. Restart machine, no change. The FH2 launcher starts but when I click on 'play' the splash screen disappears but the game doesn't start. If I go into Task Manager, FH2 is not running in Applications, but ForgottenHope2.exe *32 is running under Processes.
Did a complete uninstall and reinstall of BF2 and FH2 and the same thing happens - I can launch and play the game online absolutely normally the first time I run it, but then once I quit out I can't get the game to start again, even if I restart the machine. No errors, it just starts the Process (according to Task Manager) but then nothing more. Tried messing about with windowed mode, running as admin, compatibilty mode - no change... and I'm sure I never had any sort of problems before the rebuild, using exactly the same hardware and OS.
The only thing I can think of is something going weird in the profiles, and I'm doing something wrong.
When I first go into the FH2 launcher options after installing everything, the 'Login As' drop down just says <None> and I actually have no idea how you'd create a new account now - I can't see an option to create one. I'm copying my 0001 profile I saved from the old install to C:\Users\Username\Documents\Forgottenhp 2\Profiles, this then gives me my username/password to login with, it connects, I can play and all my controls are set up as before - one time only. FH seems then to be creating a 0002 profile in that folder, and no matter what I do deleting, recopying profiles etc. I can't get the game to start again.
How do you actually create an account if you're starting FH2 for the very first time these days? Maybe I need to do that before importing my old profile? Does your profile only need to be copied to the MyDocs\FH2 folder, or does it need to be copied somewhere else. Do you have to do anything with BF2 before running FH2 for the first time - don't see how you could create an account there either now the server is gone?
I'm really stumped so would appreciate any ideas!