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.

helpimcrap · 24 Aug 2006 at 17:30

uninstall and reinstall?

latest drivers for mobo and graphics card?

no dodgy antivirus running?

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 17:41

Kaspersky 6.0 is running. That's not dodgy.

helpimcrap · 24 Aug 2006 at 17:56

any problems with any other games?

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

helpimcrap · 24 Aug 2006 at 18:17

yeh try that... i havent installed gampespy since that kept messing up on me years ago.

i dont run it with fear MP either.

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

LeakyMeat · 24 Aug 2006 at 19:13

You dont have Xfire running do you? I read in another post here somewhere that it was causing major problems with some games and if i remember correctly fear was one of them.
Possibly check your directx is up to date too?

Ricochet J · 24 Aug 2006 at 22:01

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

LeakyMeat · 24 Aug 2006 at 22:32

Ah it wont be that then, xfire is sorta like gamespy for finding your friends in games etc.

Googling your problem shows most people pointing the finger of guilt at hard drive emulators or punkbuster as the cause. But no proof or a fix.

Tas · 24 Aug 2006 at 22:53

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

Lonewolf · 24 Aug 2006 at 22:59

eXSBass said:
Kaspersky 6.0 is running. That's not dodgy.

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

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

Tas · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:11

Go into add remove programs the click the show updates box and it will be in there, its documented in a few places like:

http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=20124&pid=175452&st=0&#entry175452

Lonewolf · 24 Aug 2006 at 23:13

Have you looked Here?

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

Amadeus · 1 Sep 2006 at 16:09

Kaspersky and the security windows update patch seem to crash everything

I think its Kaspersky that needs to look long and hard at its "product"!

:rolleyes: