ootp8.exe - Fatal Application Exit

[asurob]

installed the game on my laptop....hit the install license...that goes smoothly. Launch the game and i get this error....it says its unable to open the user data folder and asks me the reinstall the game.

I have done that.

3 times

same error.

[Nutlaw]

What files and folders are in your user data folder?

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

What files and folders are in your user data folder?

i just bought the game and get same thing

i just have fonts and skins in the data folder

[Nutlaw]

Not that data folder. The one at Documents and Settings\(user name)\My Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 8\data

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

Not that data folder. The one at Documents and Settings\(user name)\My Documents\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 8\data

how do i get the exe program to that location

[Nutlaw]

Originally Posted by ridge

how do i get the exe program to that location

No, you don't want to put the exe file there. I'd like you to look at that directory and let us know what folders are in there. I want to make sure that your game is installing fully.

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

No, you don't want to put the exe file there. I'd like you to look at that directory and let us know what folders are in there. I want to make sure that your game is installing fully.

in the mydocuemnt folder

i have the data file (all the files needed except the font and skin folder) and no game file

on my hard drive file i have the game and also a data file

that only has the font and skins folders in it

[Nutlaw]

Originally Posted by ridge

in the mydocuemnt folder

i have the data file (all the files needed except the font and skin folder) and no game file

on my hard drive file i have the game and also a data file

that only has the font and skins folders in it

Your My Document folder isn't on your hard drive? Where is it?

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

Your My Document folder isn't on your hard drive? Where is it?

its on my desktop

a folder called mydocuments

not on my hard drive

[Nutlaw]

Originally Posted by ridge

its on my desktop

a folder called mydocuments

not on my hard drive

The existence of a link to your My Documents folder doesn't indicate where the folder's data is kept. Unless your My Documents folder is on a network somewhere, it's on your hard drive.

Originally Posted by ridge

i have the data file (all the files needed except the font and skin folder) and no game file

Could you list the folders in that data folder by name?

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

The existence of a link to your My Documents folder doesn't indicate where the folder's data is kept. Unless your My Documents folder is on a network somewhere, it's on your hard drive.



Could you list the folders in that data folder by name?

the folders that are on mydocument folders are

ballcaps
ballparks
database
facegen
help
jerseys
logo
photos
pictures
quickstart games
schedules
stats
templates
text

on the hard drive folder is

font
skins

and thanks for trying to help me, i appericated it

[Nutlaw]

Yeah, that ought to be enough to get the game started. Just to be certain, did you restart your computer since installing the game?

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

Yeah, that ought to be enough to get the game started. Just to be certain, did you restart your computer since installing the game?

yes i have

does is it matter that there are two data files in two seperate locations ?

[ridge]

Originally Posted by ridge

yes i have

does is it matter that there are two data files in two seperate locations ?

does anyone have any ideas on what do to

[ridge]

Originally Posted by ridge

does anyone have any ideas on what do to

i think i have got it down to this

How do i move game data off of a network drive

to a hard drive ?

any help would be appreicated

thanks
Ridge

[Nutlaw]

You should have two different folders called data in two different places, though I suppose that you could combine them. If your second data folder is on a network drive, please try the steps listed in the thread below and let us know how they work.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=142326

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

You should have two different folders called data in two different places, though I suppose that you could combine them. If your second data folder is on a network drive, please try the steps listed in the thread below and let us know how they work.

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=142326

i saw that post and have tried it with no luck

[Nutlaw]

What happened? Where did you run into trouble?

[ridge]

Originally Posted by Nutlaw

What happened? Where did you run into trouble?

nothing nutlaw

i am not a computer wiz

if some can help me with this

which files are witch, i followed the below, but my files are not called the same

i dont have a sports interactive file



How to move game data off of a network drive
If your folder "My Documents" is on a network drive, you may get the error message "Unable to open the user data folder! Please reinstall Out of the Park Baseball." You don't actually have to reinstall, but OOTP can't support data stored on network drives.

The solution is to move your OOTP data to your local machine. Use the following steps to move your OOTPB user data from a network drive to a local machine.:
Close OOTPB
Locate the folder \My Documents\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2007
Copy the whole contents of that folder into the clipboard (Ctrl+A to select everything; Ctrl+C to copy)
Create a folder on a local drive, for example C:\OOTP2007
Open that folder, and paste the data from the clipboard (right click into the folder and select "Paste"). Windows will copy all the data files to C:\OOTP2007. You should have a folder C:\OOTP2007\data then.
OK, now we need to tell OOTP to open the data from that folder. Open the Windows Start menu, click on "Run", enter %appdata%\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2007\data\config and hit Enter. This should open a folder with some config files in it.
If there is a file called "paths" already there, open it with Notepad or another text editor. If there is no such file, right click in the folder, select "New --> Text Document." Call the file "paths" (with no .txt extension), and open it in Notepad.
In the first line, write "path_user_data" and hit enter, in the second line write the path like this one: C:\OOTP2007\data. So the file should look like this:
path_user_data
C:\OOTP2007\data

9. Close and save it and restart OOTP

[ridge]

i am using this , with no luck


%appdata%\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\data\config