Bizarre Date Related Refusal to Even Start CoH Client: HALP!
By
Hugginator,
Posted on: 2009-08-01 07:10 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
There are a few date related problems with the game, the one that may be getting you is if your game folders or data folders for the game are future dated (depending on your version of Windows).
So I would recommend doublechecking your current date/time yet again, then check and change the game folders to an older date if they are future dated.
There are some tools online to change the date of a folder:
http://www.petges.lu/download/ac.exe
from
http://www.petges.lu/windows/windows.html
I have not tested the program but it looks to be what you could need.
That seems to have sorted it.
Many thanks!
"The gaping maw of your mind is filled with layered circles upon circles of bloody razors, I am finding."
- Twoflower
i have the exact same problem can someone help me out its been troubling me for a long time and im ready to just break some more stuff and give up for a month....
**edit** theres no date stuff in it ill try to copy down why just has c++ error stuff
Quote:
Rebooting doesn't prove anything. Leave it off overnight again and see what happens. And check the date before you open any programs.
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Originally Posted by PyroDFB
I set it to the correct date in Windows, but I suspected the battery might be dying, so I rebooted it, checked the system time in the BIOS. Nope. Still showing 01/08. Okay.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
Okay, so. I started up my computer this morning, only to discover that apparently Firefox wasn't accepting any certificates, and had lost all of my cookies due to their having 'expired'. A bit of further investigation revealed that this was because my Windows Date/Time had apparently set itself to April, 2033.
I set it to the correct date in Windows, but I suspected the battery might be dying, so I rebooted it, checked the system time in the BIOS. Nope. Still showing 01/08. Okay. At this point I began to suspect a virus or something. So I ran a full scan with Kaspersky and another with Spybot. Showed up a couple Flash and Winamp vulnerabilities, which I remedied, but no virus activity. Okay.
Spent a bit more time futzing around with the Start Menu, which had unsorted itself and was steadfastly refusing to Sort By Name properly. Eventually managed to resolve that, more or less. And then decided it was time to get back to the DXP Grind.
Flashed up the updater, no problems, clicked through the Nexts. Computer attempted to start up the client, aaaand...
Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library
Program: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
File: dtoxtime.c
Line: 65
Expression: ((( yr - 1900 ) >= _BASE_YEAR ) && (( yr - 1900 ) <= _MAX_YEAR ))
For information on how your program can cause an assertion failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts.
(Press Retry to debug the application)
I have since attempted all of these, and all of them except Abort go straight to a "City Of Heroes has encountered a problem and needs to close" dialog. I can quote the data the error report contains if people think it'll help, but it's somewhat extensive, so I'm leaving it out for now.
I've tried removing the CityofHeroes.exe and letting the updater redownload it, as well as doing the same for most of the files in the City of Heroes folder (not the piggs though, since those are hueg, and I'd quite like to get this playable some time soon), to no avail.
So I guess my question is "What the hell?". It's fairly obvious that this is related in some way to the date going crazy this morning, but I've reset it to the correct date, and pretty much everything else seems to work, so.
Any insights? I'm beginning to suspect my solution here is "Format. Reinstall Windows", but if there's some way of avoiding that, then I'd appreciate anyone who can clue me in what it is. (On a possibly related note, TeaTimer.exe, the Spybot resident, has started producing memory read errors whenever I try to shut the computer down, and needs to be manually killed. The implications of this worry me.)
Thanks.
"The gaping maw of your mind is filled with layered circles upon circles of bloody razors, I am finding."
- Twoflower