open in safe mode????

[shelleckersley]

hi guys wondered if you can help ive exhausted aby of my own ideas :cry:
my son bought me the game and has only played it once on a different computer. the game installs perfect mdr1 however when i try to play it im told that the last time it was played it was shut down incorrectly and to play in safe mode.... i have answered both yes and no to this request but to no avail..... please help as im desperate to play this now after all that i have heard about it.....come on guys im a desperate bored house wife have some pitty :hin: please!!!!!!!!!!

[Mastek]

Hi...

Have you installed the new euro patch?

Mastek

[gesztenye76]

I have the very same problem, my PC definitely meets the system requirements and the game seemed to work just fine the first time - but has been crashing, like, every minute since the first restart (I also tried Yes and No when that stupid safe mode message pops up).
I uninstalled everything (even though I'd almost finished builidng East Village :cry: ), then reinstalled the game PLUS the Euro patch and it's still crashing.
I've just e-mailed Technical support - I really hope they will come up with something, because it's an awesome game and I'm getting real frustrated here not being able to play it anymore.
I'll let you know if I receive an answer.

Viktoria

[bloodlustkathy]

i just ignored it and reclicked the game and that seemed to work, the first time though, i answered no and that loaded up too, so maybe its just my computer, hope you get the game back on. do any of you guys know how to get past the 3rd part of bit dogs on little italy??? i bought the bar and that was fine, all ticked off nicely..... when i demolished the bar though nothing happened, that was 3 days ago and nobody else owns property in little italy other than me now so im really stuck, please help :) :cry:

[tll67]

This happens all the time on both out pc's ! I just click no and it works fine.

As for the patch, well it won't install at all :mad:

[gesztenye76]

I received this standardized answer from this guy at Atari and seem to have found out what the problem was - on my PC at least.
It seems that there is one (or more?) program running in the background that conflicts with the game. Ever since I did what that letter said about this problem, the game's been running fine - well, except the fact that it still won't close without any error message and that stupid "safe mode" window pops up every time I start the game, but... hey! I can load saved games no problemo and the game hasn't crashed once. Yay!

Here's the part of their e-mail about conflicting programs running in the background - I think ya'll should also try this, it worked for me. mdr1

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Disable 3rd party applications running in the background

Background applications can be either closed temporarily or disabled. If they are temporarily closed, they will start again when the computer is restarted. If they are disabled they will need to be manually re-enabled to run them again.

To temporarily close any extra applications and services running in the background in Windows XP:

· Hold down the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keys simultaneously on your keyboard.

· This will bring up the Task Manager. If it brings up Windows Security, click the Task Manager button.

· Click the Applications tab. This will list programs currently running on your system

· Hold down the Ctrl key on the keyboard and click each program to highlight it.

· When all the programs are highlighted, hit the End Task button. If you get any messages that state the program is not responding, hit End Task again.

· Now click the Processes tab. Click the bar that says User Name to sort the list.

· Click on any of the processes except EXPLORER and TASKMGR that have your login name in the User Name column. Then click End Process. Click Yes on the Task Manager Warning. Repeat this step to remove all processes that are under your login name except EXPLORER and TASKMGR.

This should temporarily close any conflicting background applications. These applications will start up again when you reboot.

To prevent extra applications and services from loading during startup in Windows XP:

· Click Start then Run

· In the box type MSCONFIG and click OK. This will bring up the System Configuration Utility.

· Click the Startup tab. This displays a list of all non-vital applications and processes that are loaded during startup.

· Click the Disable All button to uncheck these items.

· Click OK. When you are prompted to restart, click Yes

Upon reboot, these applications will not start. Try the game with these disabled. If it works, then one of these programs may be conflicting. Open MSCONFIG using the process above and recheck these programs using the process of elimination to determine the conflicting program.

To undo the above changes:

· Click Start then Run

· In the box type MSCONFIG and click OK. This will bring up the System Configuration Utility.

· On the General tab, click the dot next to Normal Startup

· Click OK. When you are prompted to restart, click Yes

This will restart your computer with all the background applications re-enabled.

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Good luck! :bravo:

[tll67]

lol, I always close programs that don't need to be running when I play any type of game.

[dagakrist]

I have had the same problem, but I have always managed to get it working again. What's realy annoys me is that the game seem to crash very often, and if I haven't saved for a while I loose a whole city block of upgrades. Really annoying.