FEAR just doesn't work

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 16:06

Everytime I try to fire up the free multiplayer version of FEAR it keeps telling me "FEAR has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

I've tried downloading it and reinstalling it twice but no luck!

Has anyone else had this happen to them? If so, how did you get around it?

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 16:18

Before I forget my specs, if you need them, are:
AMD Athlon 64 Winchester @ Stocks (2.0 Ghz)
GeIL 1024Mb (1Gb) RAM @ Stocks
HIS Excalibur x800xl @ Stocks
Samsung 160Gb HDD
DFI UT NF4 Motherboard

Everything is at stocks really. Not overclocked nothing.

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 17:41

Kaspersky 6.0 is running. That's not dodgy.

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 18:04

Nope. Not at all. CoD2 runs beautifully. Although, i've always run CoD2 when Gamespy wasn't installed. Let me try uninstalling gamespy

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 19:03

Nope. It's not Gamespy. I've uninstalled it. Removed all spyware. Don't know what to do. I want to play this game

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 22:01

What the hell is Xfire? And i'm sure the DirectX drivers are up to date

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:03

Tas said:
Remove the XP update KB917422 using add/remove programs and all will be well

How do I do that?

Lonewolf said:
When I first updated FEAR last year the SP would not work while Kaspersky was running. Turn it off then retry FEAR.

Tried and it didn't work

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:16

Tas said:
Remove the XP update KB917422 using add/remove programs and all will be well

IT WORKS!

Yeh. It turns out a lot of people with this said update installed get rapage errors just like me. Lets hope Sierra release a patch for this soon.

Edit: Thanks