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Rifraf

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Hi All. Hope you are all doing well in these times. I am having a strange issue and am looking for help. I have a modded version of the Star Wars Fleet Command mod on my desktop and 2 versions inside FO as mods. I also have 4 modded versions of regular Armada 2 on my desktop that all worked last year. I haven't modded in a year. I went to play today and tried all of them and none work inside FO or as stand alone mods on my desktop.

I can play FO and the Armada 2 Classic and my Upgrade Project mod still inside FO, but not the other 6 mods. This seems very strange and I've tried different compatibility modes to no avail. I'm at a loss why 6 different mods would just now not work. Any thoughts? I double click the icon and the splash screen comes up, but then goes away and nothing. I can't even get to the main screen to choose instant action.
 
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A while back I had this strange problem where STA2 Classic wouldn't start at all. Leading to a CTD or error message the moment I booted FleetOps. I traced it back to my anti-virus program. So I have to disable it whenever I want to run A2, which is annoying.
 
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Thanks Jet. I use Avast and always have and just checked that the program is in the allowed aps so that's not it. I could try disabling it to see if it works then. I'll keep trying other ideas too
 
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+1 to AV being a possibility. I once had issues with just vanilla A2 because the AV quarantined a file from every installation. Took a while to find that one!
 
Rifraf

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Thanks kjc. I disabled my AV last night and still no luck. I also tried playing Armada I and can't play it either. Not sure what changed on my system from last fall to now?

It's really weird I can play Fleet Ops and I can play the A2 Classic mod and 1 other personal mod in FO, but none of the other mods iin FO work? I thought maybe an SSD problem, but all other games work. I also tried to reinstall A2 from the disc, but can't do that either. It gives me the opion to Play, Reinstall Again or Uninstall. When I click Reinstall it starts then a box pops up saying it can't run because Uninstall is currently running and to close that before I can install it, but uninstall shouldn't be running on anything. This one has me stumped.
 
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This may be a long shot, but try changing the directory of the entire FO and mods to an all new folder or location in the hard drive.
 
Rifraf

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I did try that too Jet. Created a new folder on my main HD instead of my gaming one and drug everything there, but no go. I can't even install a new copy fresh from the disk. I may have to try DOSbox or something or else my A2 days may be over :(
 
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Rifraf said:
I did try that too Jet. Created a new folder on my main HD instead of my gaming one and drug everything there, but no go. I can't even install a new copy fresh from the disk. I may have to try DOSbox or something or else my A2 days may be over :(
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This is why I moved onto Sins, A2 is that dated it's more trouble than it's worth for me plus it got stale for me after 20 years haha.
 
Rifraf

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Majestic said:
This is why I moved onto Sins, A2 is that dated it's more trouble than it's worth for me plus it got stale for me after 20 years haha.
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Haha, I hear ya. Well, finally figured out why the Star Wars mod wasn't working in FO. It was referencing a parent mod that I no longer had installed. Changed that and can now use my mod with FO. The regular version of A2 though is a no go still in Win10. I've just been needing a Star Wars fix so glad I can at least play it through FO now. Empire at War just wasn't cutting it
 
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Rifraf said:
Haha, I hear ya. Well, finally figured out why the Star Wars mod wasn't working in FO. It was referencing a parent mod that I no longer had installed. Changed that and can now use my mod with FO. The regular version of A2 though is a no go still in Win10. I've just been needing a Star Wars fix so glad I can at least play it through FO now. Empire at War just wasn't cutting it
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That;s good news mate.

I play Ascendancy in Sins of a Solar Empire it's a star wars mod.
 
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