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JD — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:51:31 +0000

I have played a lot of computer games in my time, from the old non graphic text games of many years ago to the explosion of Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG). Usually I like to learn everything about the MMORPG I play. I will have graphs, charts, numerous spread sheets, and then I may actually start building a character. Sorry, inside joke, but it is basically how I play. Friends and family will usually be on level 5 – 6 before I have even selected the color of hair.

Anyway, eventually I will start digging up this information and see if it still viable and start giving insight to a particular game. Now, I realize there is always a lot of information about a particular game, but how many places have actual records of bringing in over $1000 in real cash for playing, say Everquest 2. So, somewhere buried in one of my computers is all this data and eventually I will get to producing this information, that is just so hard to find out there on the net.

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Vanguard

Vanguard won’t launch!

JD — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:51:08 +0000

So, I am looking at the price of plat on the Live Gamer website, the one that hosts the auctions for in-game plat and I think, that is a really nice concept. I gotta see how this works. So, I download the Vanguard free trial and launch the game. Bam! blue screen of death. Then I restart the computer and now the game just loads the start-up screen and then goes right back to the desktop. Okay, time to fix some issues…

To fix the game not launching and going to desktop, I deleted my cache files in the game:

Find the Vanguard/bin/caches folder and just delete everything in folder. The game will re-download those corrupted files and everything should work fine.

My blue screen of death was associated with ha20x2k.sys which is a soudblaster driver file. Now a few weeks ago I had a power surge and my soundblaster was knock out. I guess I need to get rid of the drivers associated with it someday, but that is another lesson. Anyway the fix for this is:

Locate the VGclient.ini in your vanguard/bin folder.

Open VGclient.ini with notebook. Find OpenALDeviceName= and change it to OpenALDeviceName=Generic Software

Well, now the game works like a charm… time to get back to work, learning the game itself.

Best of Luck to all,

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Vanguard won’t launch!