OOTP9 won't work at all...
 

OK, I've been trying to get this game to work on my PC. I'm running Windows XP Professional SP3. I've downloaded the latest OOTP9 ver. 9.2.2. I was able to put in the license, but when I try to start the application I get the "OOTP9.exe has encountered a problem, the information you were working on might be lost" and it asks if I want to send the info to Microsoft. I've tried all the fixes listed here on the boards, I've owned this game since the 24th and haven't been able to play it at all. I'm getting very frustrated. Please someone help.

You say you're running 9.2.2 - can you download and install 9.2.11 as this is the latest version. The link is in the main 9.2.11 released thread in the main forum.

Actually, I do have that version installed now. I had to disable facegen and now I get as far as the main screen. However, when I get to that screen, the only thing I can do without the game crashing is options. I can't create any new leagues or quick play, because it crashes now.

The only way I could actually get the main screen to load up was to DL and install the OOTP pre XP rar file. But as I said now I can't get any leagues going. When I try to start a new league it loads to 100% then I get the same error message and the program closes.

Any ideas anyone?

Game loads to 100% then crashes
 

The only way I could actually get the main screen to load up was to DL and install the OOTP pre XP rar file. I can't get any leagues going. When I try to start a new league it loads to 100% then I get the message that OOTP.exe encountered a problem and has to close and it gives me the option to submit the data to Microsoft and the program closes.

I've already disabled facegen by renaming it facegenx, as that was another crash I encountered earlier. Would really like to be able to finally try this bad boy out, as it appears to be the best baseball sim out there, but I'm starting to get quite frustrated. Anybody have any ideas to throw my way?

I've also tried defragging my hard drive and closed all other programs.

I just checked and am running 9.2.11

Do you get the game startup screen appearing or is it crashing straight after clicking the icon?

I get the startup screen now, but can't go any further. It crashes when I try anything else. A new league will load to 100% then crash

can you run from your start menu with Trace Mode on - it'll be under Tools.

Then load up a game and when it crashes you should find a file called ootp.log in the My Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9 directory.

Rename it to ootp.txt and attach it to a reply in this thread.

OK, trying this now

Here it is :)

I'll let Andreas or Markus know and they can have a look at that.

Thanks

Thank you Tony for helping with this. Any idea on a time frame for Andreas or Markus?

Not sure if this is relevant, but during my Christmas vacation, I discovered my 9.2.11 would not load if I wasn't connected to the Internet, sort of like how they said the Steam version worked (though I never used that version and downloaded the update from this site). (If you want, I can also put this in another post, but I thought they might be related.)

thanks for the tip Steve. I actually have tried to load it up while connected, but still had no luck. I am actually in "negotiations" with Dell to purchase a new PC. Have submitted all the info, it's a quad core processor, 2.4 Ghz, 6 GB of ram, an ATI Radeon 3650 HD video card, 640 GB hard drive. Should arrive about the middle of the month (January), so I "should" have no problems running OOTP9 on this machine. Still would like to get it running on my old machine in the meantime though, as I am really anxious to try this game out.

Hopefully very soon, but I haven't seen either of them on during this gap between Christmas and New Year and I've not had a reply to any emails I've sent to them.

Hi all. Just wondering if anyone has had a chance to look into the file I attatched to one of my previous posts yet.

OK, It's been a week since my last post and the second week-end of 2009 is upon us and I still can't play this game I purchased as my personal Christmas gift to myself (I bought my wife a new wedding band as not to look selfish at this time of year :^). Any word on if anyone has had a chance to look at the file I attatched? I would love to be able top get into this game now. Thanks.

I would make sure that you have run Windows Update recently and that your graphics card driver is up to date.

You mention attempting to run this game on an "old" machine. Just how much RAM and available hard drive space do you have on the "old" one?

If you haven't done so, you ought to try entirely uninstalling the game and installing fresh from a new download of the setup files. Occasionally they get corrupted during the file transfer.

I'm running 512 MB of RAM and have turned off all unneccesary programs. I've actually got to the point that I can get to the main screen, but anyway I try to start a league it loads then crashes witth the MS message of doom.

Hrm. Have you run any anti-virus or anti-spyware programs lately?

How much free hard drive space do you have?

I have 65GB free on my HD and the only virus protection on my PC is turned off when I try OOTP (it's Avast BTW, as I read on some other threads that that was safe to use in conjunction with the game).

Hrm. Could you try deleting the default.lg folder in your saved_games folder to see if that helps anything?

I'm having a very similar problem. When I downloaded the latest patch, the game will not start. I can't even get to the startup screen. I have even tried it on a machine that has had all traces of the game removed (a fresh install). It still won't work. This is on machines that have run the game successfully before. What happened? And can I get older version before the latest patches?

OK, so I got my new PC. I still have to disable facegen to play the game but it does work. Question is, what am I losing by disabling facegen and is there some type of settings I have to change in my video card pref to allow facegen to work?

FaceGen generates pictures for your fictional players. That's it.

Have you tried running in either of the FaceGen troubleshooting modes?

I don't know of any preferences that you might need, but have you fully updated your graphics card driver?

As there hasn't been an update from the OP for a couple of weeks, this thread will be closed for housekeeping purposes. If this is still a problem, let us know and we'll reopen it.