catastrophic failureFollow

What O.S.?

sorry...was away for a day.
I am using xp home.
i have tried the swg forums to see if they had a solution but all i found is many other people having the exact same problem.
I then tried the 'chat' with the tech guy who was nearly useless. I used msconfig to turn off all programs in the startup cycle. it didn't work either so it is not avg or zonelabs causing the problem.
Still not sure why it crashes at exactly the same spot. Even tried downloading it again just to see if it was an error in the download and it crashes at the exact same spot again.
oh..and i agree with your assessment of vista...no one i know that has it likes it. glad i stuck with xp.

Edited, Jan 25th 2008 11:39am by FireAlex

Ooo, shorter phone cord, I got to remember that one.

Or, better yet "You're not on wireless? Well, that's your problem, because you know, the physical line creates friction, which will slow down the transmission - hence, your connection is slow and faulty. Wireless is friction free. You really ought to upgrade..."

I would take offence to the statement that tech guys are always useless, but too many of them actually are.

Just to point out a little mathematical axiom = absolutes are almost always false (or are never true. I know, same thing, but different connotation.)

Personally, I like to say that absolutes are always false - because I think that such a statement upsets the space-time continuum somewhere.

Of course, I'm of the opinion that if they are useless, they aren't really techies. They are simply wannabees.

THE Cor

had a resume' here....but I thought it was arrogant and pompus so I removed it.

I am a tech with a long resume' lets just say. To include 2 degrees

Not techies in general.....it depends on which one you ask.



Edited, Jan 26th 2008 6:55pm by Azrielis

Well?.......how do you leave a tech in suspence....lol

Post my friend...I'm interested.

How ddid you get it fixed?

Edited, Jan 27th 2008 12:59am by Azrielis

Ha Ha...sorry my bad.
Ok...this is probably listed in greater detail in some other posts but basically i downloaded the files using the new 'beta' loader from soe. but in order to run the game i had to follow a set of instruction to take the old launcher and set it up the way i guess it used to be before some of the 'enhancements' soe made to their launcher.
So to correct the downloading problem (stall at file patch09.tre) you use the new beta which fixes the error in that file but you need the old launcher to run it as there is still soem problem with the beta launcher running the program. In the end i spoke with 3 different guys at the tech desk all of whom had no idea how to fix it but instead of admitting that they had me changing all sorts of settings that took me a while to get back to normal.
Now i am up and running and made lvl 10 in a few hours. Not much interaction yet with others as i have been on the first space station but i am hoping to meet up with people when i get to tatooine.
Now i need to find a mentor who can instruct a new guy.
Thanks again for the help. See you in game.
(Lvl 10 Jedi on Bloodfin)
Alex

These are the exact steps i used and it worked for me....im on xp though so i'm not sure if this works for vista too....

Downloaded old launchpad at: http://patch.station.sony.com:7000/...l_LaunchPad.exe

Go to your Launchpad folder, C:\Program Files\Sony\Station\Launchpad. Right click on launchpad.exe and choose send to --> desktop.
Next, create a folder in C:\Program Files called StarWarsGalaxies
(i actually used d: but it made no difference)

Go to your desktop, right click on that icon and choose properties.

In the target box, enter this exactly with quotes and all: "C:\Program Files\Sony\Station\Launchpad\Launchpad.exe" /game:starwars

In the Start in box, put this in, quotes and all: "C:\Program Files\Star Wars Galaxies"

Click on Apply, then Close.

I downloaded the beta at : http://launcher.station.sony.com/features.vm becuase i was told you have to use the beta version to download.
But the fix on the official forums says you can download using the old launchpad with those changes above.

Either way once you have the old launcher set up like above or the new beta you can download. Then i had to use the old launcher to run the program...new one hangs up.
Hope this helps.

NVM i think i got it to work :D

Edited, Feb 2nd 2008 7:27am by Telanhzan

Got it to work, only now, it won't startup on either launcher. It says that .asi and .ftl files aren't readable, and it says the graphics won't initialize though I reinstalled and fixed Direct X.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2008 8:23pm by Sjrjrjr

Edited, Feb 2nd 2008 8:31pm by Sjrjrjr

It just says that .flt and .asi files aren't windows files.

So is downloading the Beta Launcher the only way you can get the game to install if you are getting the catastrophic failure messages?