F.E.A.R. Free Multiplayer installer crashes Windows.

[Cunjo]

You know, like the "kills explorer, and anything that stays on top still works (like task manager), but once something loses focus, it's gone" sort of crash.

I can save Windows by force-quitting the installer and then force-quitting the explorer process tree (or just force quitting explorer.exe and then waiting 10 minutes for the computer to manage doing it), but then I have to reboot anyway because all of the applications running aren't on the taskbar anymore and I can't access them.

This happens instantly when I double-click on the installer icon on my desktop (it took me 5 hours to download that 2 gig thing yesterday)

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[KSoD]

Have you gotten the latest installer?

 

[Cunjo]

I have no idea which version I have or if it's supposed to be current. I got it from Filefront using google.

 

[KSoD]

I would check to see if it is the current one.

FEAR - First Encounter Assault Recon

 

[Cunjo]

It appears to have the same version identifier. I'm re-downloading from the official torrent anyway, in case I got a corrupt copy.

 

[KSoD]

Dont get me wrong the one from FileFront are usually not that bad. But i would rather get it from the site thru a torrent. That way i know with the hash checks i wont get a bad download.

 

[Cunjo]

doing that now... at this rate though, it'll finish downloading around the time I manage to divide by zero. I haven't found a single seed or received a single bit in the last 3-1/2 hours.

 

[KSoD]

Maybe try from FilePlanet instead?

 

[Cunjo]

fileplanet is where I got it from the first place (I didn't mean filefront)

It's going now though so I think I'm fine.

Now just to get FS2 SCP working....

 

[Akubane]

I've had nothign but problems with this lol. I 'bought' fear and it came with a multiplayer.. That suddenly crapped out on me. No response when I click to open it.

So i've been trying to download fear combat as a substitute. The first one from gamespot (bad idea) is corrupted. "Catastrophic Crash" thing or whatever.
The 2nd one from the sierra sire.. kept downloading after the file finished.. I stopped it at 3.0Gb and gave up lol. I just downloaded the one from fileplanet and havent tried to install it yet. If it doesnt work i'm just gonna give up.