Dark Avatar gold edition crashes upon autoplay or startup of the game

July 10, 2009 8:38 PM from

I saw in the sticky they linked to a post that could resolve this but that page is restricted and i could not view it. When i put my dvd in the drive a windows vista message said the program failed to run and closed the autoplay. then i opened up my computer and tried from there and the same happened. i finally explored the dvd and ran the setup myself. now when i try to click the game in my program files or shortcut i get the same crash. i havnt patched the game yet because im having trouble finding where to download the patch.

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Reply #1 July 10, 2009 11:43 PM from

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There are a variety of reasons that the launcher might not work (usually overzealous antivirus programs). The simplest solution is to just skip it when running the game much as you did to install; just edit the shortcut to point at galciv2.exe or gc2darkavatar.exe rather than gc2launch or dalaunch.

To update the game, download Impulse and use it to register the game, which will then appear on the My Games tab where you can update or redownload the entire game at any time.

Reply #2 July 11, 2009 11:58 AM from

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ok that works for now. thanks.

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