Vanguard won’t launch!

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,

JD

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John Howard has owned 13 companies, had a Real Estate license, been an Mortgage Loan Officer, been extensively involved in Day Trading, Commodities, Bought and Sold Tax Property, Accomplished Tax Auditor, Accountant, Written numerous computer programs, Written Screen Plays & Short Films, been Director on two major production short films, and has been semi-retired since 2007, concentrating on personal investing and writing.