The Launcher says the game is up to date and ready to play. But whenever I launch the game and start loading it crashes before I even get past the first (ingame) loading screen. I've set it to Run as Administrator, re-checked the game files, I've check that it says 'Live' version in the launcher but nothing seems to work.

I've checked the Vanguard Forums but it's almost empty and even via Google I can't seem to find any information to help solve this problem. Further more I've been 1st waiting for the SOE Live Chat for about 30 minutes now. 

Can anybody here, who perhaps had the same problem, offer me some advice to solve this problem?

I'm running Windows 7 and my computer is can play Max Payne 3 on max (just to give you an idea) so I'm thinking it's not my hardware that's causing this.

EDIT: The error I get when the client crashes is "This program stopped working". Over and over. At the point where you're ingame and see your cursor as a round loading thingy.

I clicked the Play Free button, did the whole sign up thing and then the download started automatically so I'm assuming I had the right one. Am I assuming wrong?

EDIT: I did the above on the Vanguard site btw. Should I be using something from SOE itself?

Originally posted by Kinchyle
Wouldn't you find a better answer on the Vanguard forums?

The Vanguard Forum seems dead as mentioned in my post. I always come here since it's very active as shown by the responses in this short time period. But not a bad idea. I'll check those Forums.

Out of curiosity, is Vanguard installed in the default folder or are you installing your game in one of your newly made folders such as "games".

I ask because sometimes that default folder causes issues for some games.

Originally posted by Sovrath

Out of curiosity, is Vanguard installed in the default folder or are you installing your game in one of your newly made folders such as "games".

I ask because sometimes that default folder causes issues for some games.

It had a weird default location under C:\ so I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Online Entertainment\Vanguard. So that shouldn't be it.

Very frustrating though. The little music starts playing. The background stays black or sometimes I see a background picture but 5 seconds after hearing the music BAM it shuts down. Very annoying hoping you'll get through only to see it crash again.

Originally posted by Michiel

Originally posted by Sovrath

Out of curiosity, is Vanguard installed in the default folder or are you installing your game in one of your newly made folders such as "games".

I ask because sometimes that default folder causes issues for some games.

It had a weird default location under C:\ so I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Online Entertainment\Vanguard. So that shouldn't be it.

Very frustrating though. The little music starts playing. The background stays black or sometimes I see a background picture but 5 seconds after hearing the music BAM it shuts down. Very annoying hoping you'll get through only to see it crash again.

can you drag that to a newly made folder such as C:\games? I never launch from that x86 folder becuase it causes issues. Just a thought.

In other words, make a "games" folder.

Originally posted by Vorthanion
The game doesn't get updated very often, so there is the possibility that it may not work well with updated drivers.  You could try using older video drivers if nothing else works.

The new dev team has been patching often..

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Michiel

Originally posted by Sovrath

Out of curiosity, is Vanguard installed in the default folder or are you installing your game in one of your newly made folders such as "games".

I ask because sometimes that default folder causes issues for some games.

It had a weird default location under C:\ so I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Online Entertainment\Vanguard. So that shouldn't be it.

Very frustrating though. The little music starts playing. The background stays black or sometimes I see a background picture but 5 seconds after hearing the music BAM it shuts down. Very annoying hoping you'll get through only to see it crash again.

can you drag that to a newly made folder such as C:\games? I never launch from that x86 folder becuase it causes issues. Just a thought.

In other words, make a "games" folder.

I'll try that as a last resort as I don't know what it will do with the install. It might mess up the whole registry and me ending up redownloading 5 GB, brrr. I was hoping to play a bit tonight (8 PM) here, but with a redownload I can kiss that good bye.

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Michiel

Originally posted by Sovrath

Out of curiosity, is Vanguard installed in the default folder or are you installing your game in one of your newly made folders such as "games".

I ask because sometimes that default folder causes issues for some games.

It had a weird default location under C:\ so I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Online Entertainment\Vanguard. So that shouldn't be it.

Very frustrating though. The little music starts playing. The background stays black or sometimes I see a background picture but 5 seconds after hearing the music BAM it shuts down. Very annoying hoping you'll get through only to see it crash again.

can you drag that to a newly made folder such as C:\games? I never launch from that x86 folder becuase it causes issues. Just a thought.

In other words, make a "games" folder.

I've tried your suggestion as the Live Chat didn't help me out either, but no luck. It still crashes. Getting very desperate. Nothing I've tried seems to work.

Originally posted by Michiel

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Michiel

Originally posted by Sovrath

Out of curiosity, is Vanguard installed in the default folder or are you installing your game in one of your newly made folders such as "games".

I ask because sometimes that default folder causes issues for some games.

It had a weird default location under C:\ so I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Online Entertainment\Vanguard. So that shouldn't be it.

Very frustrating though. The little music starts playing. The background stays black or sometimes I see a background picture but 5 seconds after hearing the music BAM it shuts down. Very annoying hoping you'll get through only to see it crash again.

can you drag that to a newly made folder such as C:\games? I never launch from that x86 folder becuase it causes issues. Just a thought.

In other words, make a "games" folder.

I've tried your suggestion as the Live Chat didn't help me out either, but no luck. It still crashes. Getting very desperate. Nothing I've tried seems to work.

Here is a thought, right click, bring up properties and then the compatibility tab and run it in xp.

Also, do you have an anti virus running? Fire wall?

because I'm runing Windows 7 and don't have those problems so I wonder where the difference is.

When I downloaded Vanguard I had the same issue.  I was letting it install into the default folder it assigns.  After a couple of re-installs I did some research and they said to change the destination for the install.  All I did then was put a 1 at the end, i.e. C:\Program Files\Sony Online Entertainment\Installed Games\Vanguard1

Worked like a charm.  I know you said that you had changed it already just sharing what I did to make it work :)

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Michiel

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Michiel

Originally posted by Sovrath

Out of curiosity, is Vanguard installed in the default folder or are you installing your game in one of your newly made folders such as "games".

I ask because sometimes that default folder causes issues for some games.

It had a weird default location under C:\ so I changed it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Online Entertainment\Vanguard. So that shouldn't be it.

Very frustrating though. The little music starts playing. The background stays black or sometimes I see a background picture but 5 seconds after hearing the music BAM it shuts down. Very annoying hoping you'll get through only to see it crash again.

can you drag that to a newly made folder such as C:\games? I never launch from that x86 folder becuase it causes issues. Just a thought.

In other words, make a "games" folder.

I've tried your suggestion as the Live Chat didn't help me out either, but no luck. It still crashes. Getting very desperate. Nothing I've tried seems to work.

Here is a thought, right click, bring up properties and then the compatibility tab and run it in xp.

Also, do you have an anti virus running? Fire wall?

because I'm runing Windows 7 and don't have those problems so I wonder where the difference is.

Yeah I've done all of that via Live Chat. Firewall off, AVG off, even a reboot with all Windows services turned off. Nothing helped. Normally with every game I try to play it just launches but with this game, I don't know, I've never seen anything like it or had any similar troubles.

Originally posted by bliss14

When I downloaded Vanguard I had the same issue.  I was letting it install into the default folder it assigns.  After a couple of re-installs I did some research and they said to change the destination for the install.  All I did then was put a 1 at the end, i.e. C:\Program Files\Sony Online Entertainment\Installed Games\Vanguard1

 

Worked like a charm.  I know you said that you had changed it already just sharing what I did to make it work :)

Should I just change the path now (while it's installed) or do I need to redownload and change it during the install when it asks for the path?

Originally posted by Arcondo87
i was having that isse with the old launcher...try launching it from steam works for me!

Thank you mate! Means I'll have to redownload but I'm out of options. Will let you know if it works.