"Closed Abonormaly" Solution

[CaptainCamona]

What is this "Default Directory" Everyone is talking about and where can I find it?

[Ms_Moofers]

Originally Posted by thebeez

OMG, I'm in!!! I did not have either of the files in my game folder, so I made them both by copying the info above and changed default to pandadx8 like it said. On my first try logging in I did not get in though, I went back and checked to make sure everything copied and pasted correctly but I saw that under "state" it said "attempt" (just like in the first post in this thread. So I changed that to "working" in both the game_options and last_game_option files. Then started the game again and got in...for the first time in over 3 weeks.

OMG - You are a genius! You are all geniuses!! So, I made the file and saved it as game_options - went back and changed attempt to working AND for the first time since 18 May I am on!!!! I"m so excited!! thank you, thank you!! Good luck all others!

[CaptainCamona]

Ok guys I need to get this game running bad....I've tried everything so far but I've had no luck please walk me through this slowly.

First of all I made a new file with my notebook and copied the
version
14
state
working
api
default
window_width
832
window_height
624
fullscreen_width
832
fullscreen_height
624
resolution
0
fullscreen
0
widescreen
0
widescreen_resolution
0
widescreen_fullscreen
0
reflection
1
shader
1
shadow
0
texture
-1
texture_compression
0
sound
1
sound_volume
1.0
music
1
music_volume
1.0
gui_scale
0.5
special_effects
1
texture_scale
0.5
reserved3
0
reserved4
0
reserved5
0
reserved6
0
reserved7
0
reserved8
0
reserved9
0
reserved10
0
into it and changed the default to pandadx8 and tried to run the game, Still no luck, I've looked all over for the original file but couldn't find that please tell me how I can truely fix this, By the way I have a Compaq computer with windows XP.

[Sr.Penguin]

What she posted has worked for many people, one of them being me, just tried it. I have no idea what is up with yours though. Make sure you put it in the "Pirates Online" file.

Anyways, I have a new bug everyone. Does anyone else have their computer shut down after you play the game for a few minutes?

[Krickit2]

Originally Posted by CaptainCamona

What is this "Default Directory" Everyone is talking about and where can I find it?

The "default directory" is the folder the game would have made when you installed it. UNLESS you told your computer to put is somewhere else.

since you are unsure of what it is I am going to assume that your game is installed in a default directory and not somewhere esle

so to find it click on

my computer

C:\ (your hard drive)

find the file that says
Program Files

once there find the file that says
Disney

Inside of that folder should be
Disney Online

click that to find the
PiratesOnline

all of your game files should be in this file



you can also use your computer search function to find the PiratesOnline folder

[CaptainCamona]

I'm not sure my video card fits the requirements, Would that be the problem? If not give me any possible solution you have for me to fix this please, And yes I put it in the Pirates Online file.

[Krickit2]

Originally Posted by CaptainCamona

I'm not sure my video card fits the requirements, Would that be the problem? If not give me any possible solution you have for me to fix this please, And yes I put it in the Pirates Online file.

that could be a problem, yes. but it one I don't have a solution to
you must have a 128 MB video card for beta
you may want to check and see if your drivers are up to date for your video card.

also check and see if you have a last_working_options file in that folder there has been one person that did not have it either and had to create it also. It uses the same infomation as the other file just name it last_working_options instead of game_options

all your posted information seems to be correct, so I am flying by the seat of my pants trying to figure out what is wrong with yours as it seems to be a problem specific to your computer and not the game.

you might want to check your directx and see what version you have installed

I have version 9 so, I did not have this problem as long as some and I use the default under the api not the pandadx8

Originally Posted by Sr.Penguin

What she posted has worked for many people, one of them being me, just tried it. I have no idea what is up with yours though. Make sure you put it in the "Pirates Online" file.

Anyways, I have a new bug everyone. Does anyone else have their computer shut down after you play the game for a few minutes?

I have had this problem intermittenly.....sometime it does this for a while and then other times I can play for a good bit before I crash

[CaptainCamona]

Ok I made the new folder thing the exact same way I did with game_options but named it last_game_options. And yes I saved all my stuff in the Pirates Online folder. But how do you check your Activex?

[Krickit2]

Originally Posted by CaptainCamona

Ok I made the new folder thing the exact same way I did with game_options but named it last_game_options. And yes I saved all my stuff in the Pirates Online folder. But how do you check your Activex?

this website will best explain how to check your directx version

http://www.webcamsoft.com/en/directx.html

also check that your vidoe drivers are up-to-date. I know of one other person that recieved an e-mail Piratesonline that their video drivers needed to be updated

to do this open your control panel and click the system icon
under the hardware tab click the button that says "device manager"

click on the + beside display adapters

this should show you the video card installed

double click your video card in the pop-up choose the driver tab
there should be a button that says
update driver....... click this


BTW the file in my folder says last_working_options....I am not sure if it makes any difference.

[Ms_Moofers]

I'll leave the ActiveX question for the computer guru's - I do recall that if you use pandadx8 I was told that tells your computer to use an older version of DirectX (version 8) - This was suggested to me because, although my processor meets the requirements, their server doesn't recognize it... Just wanted to let the guru's know.... also, they are closing for maintenience in a bit - hope they don't undo what I just did!!!!

[CaptainCamona]

Which website do I go on to see what activeX I currently have installed?

[Jack Sunshot]

Thank you all soooooooooo much! After about 3 weeks of not being able to play due to that Microsoft error, I fixed it today and now I am able to play! Thank you all so very much!

[Ms_Moofers]

try www.activex.com - don't know if that would work or not since I use DirectX but there should be a "download" button/section - best of luck

[Bellatrix]

I just made a new text document labeled "game_options".
Hope it works. Game is busy though.

[Krickit2]

Originally Posted by CaptainCamona

Which website do I go on to see what activeX I currently have installed?

The website link is listed in my previous post

I am by no means a computer guru....I have just worked with them for 20 years so had to learn a little bit out of self defence

none of my solutions are guarenteed to fix your problems, They are only things you can try. If updating the drivers doen't help you can alway roll them back

I too hope they don't mess up the steps forward we have acheived today!