Common Solutions and workarounds for Cross Fire
Welcome to the Cross Fire Common Solutions thread.
These are the most common solutions to many of the issues that people have while installing and playing the game. Please try as many of these first as you can before posting your problem in the forums.
Please review and try these solutions before attempting to post your reports to the Tech Support people/forums.
* Reboot your computer.
The number one solution. Should always be performed after any error.
* Perform a Clean Boot of the computer
Perform a clean boot of your computer to make sure that nothing else is interfering with the game. For more information on how to perform a clean boot please check here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796 and video
http://support.microsoft.com/service.../SMH012304.asx* Uninstall and Reinstall Cross Fire using the following proper method.
o Uninstall the game via the control panel and/or uninstaller.
o Delete the two default CF Folders that are left on your drive. located in 'Program Files/SubaGames/CrossFire/' and the other is in 'Documents/Cross Fire/'
o Download a fresh copy of the game from the site and install it.
o Secondary Solution to the install. Choose a new directory/subpath/drive when installing the game.
* Make sure you turn your anti-virus and spyware programs OFF.
Some free virus and spyware checkers run into conflicts with Game Guard and Cross Fire. They can also hog system resources when scanning. It's best to have them turned off while playing.
* Make sure that your firewall is letting the files “patcher_cf.exe”, “CF_G4box.exe” and “crossfire.exe” are all being let full access to the internet.
* Go to the game installation folder and delete the /GameGuard/ folder. Try starting the game.
* Go to the game installation folder and delete the “version.ini” file. Try starting the game.
* Uninstall your video card and reinstall it. Make sure all the drivers are up to date.
Always be sure to follow the instructions that come with your video card when updating the drivers. Visit the video card's company website for additional information on how to install your video card.
* Make sure your DirectX is up to date.
* Make sure you have the latest sound card drivers for your sound card.
* Make sure to install the Microsoft.net framework 2.0+
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en* Launch the 'patcher_cf.exe' manually.
* Try playing the game on another computer or another account. Note the differences in setup of each computer.
* Try running "CF_G4box.exe" and “crossfire.exe” in compatibility mode and/or in administrator mode.
Right click on the icon and go into properties. Click on the compatibility tab. Click "run in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2"
Keyboard fixes.
Please make sure your keyboard is set to US English. There is no current support for other languages.
Instructions for Windows Vista
1. Click Start and then Control Panel
2. In Control Panel, if you are in Classic View, click on Control Panel Home (top left corner)
3. Open Clock, Language, and Region
4. Click on Regional and Language Options.
5. Click the Keyboards and Languages tab and then click Change keyboards.
6. Under Installed services, click Add.
7. In the Add Input Language dialog box, select the keyboard layout you would like to add from the list available and click OK.
8. The keyboard layout you added will be included in the list. To set the new layout as your default, select it from the list. Click OK to save your changes
9. You can switch between different input languages (= keyboard languages) by clicking on the Language Bar button or by pressing the Alt + Shift keys
Instructions for Windows XP
1. Click Start and then Control Panel
2. In Control Panel, if you are in Category View, click on Switch to Classic View (top left corner)
3. Open Regional and Language Options.
4. Click on the Languages tab.
5. Under Text services and input languages, click on the Details button.
6. Under Installed services, click Add.
7. In the Add Input Language dialog box, choose the input language and keyboard layout or Input Method Editor (IME) you want to add.
8. Click OK twice. You should now see a language indicator in the System Tray (located at bottom right hand corner of the desktop by default). You can switch between different input languages (= keyboard languages) by pressing the Alt + Shift keys
If a language does not appear in the Input language list, the fonts for that language might not be installed. If that is the case, follow the instructions below.
Add language support
1. Click Start and then Control Panel
2. In Control Panel, if you are in Category View, click on Switch to Classic View
3. Open Regional and Language Options in Control Panel.
4. Click on the Languages tab.
5. Under Supplemental language support, select the check box beside the applicable language collection
6. Click OK or Apply. You will prompted to insert the Windows CD-ROM or point to a network location where the files are located. After the files are installed, you must restart your computer.
Game Guard Issues:
Please be sure to allow GameGuard across your firewall, the GameGuard.des and GameMon.des files must both be allowed online. To test out if this is the issue just turn off all your firewalls included Windows Firewall. Then run the game to see if you get the same error.
Gameguard has been falsified.
A virus has destroyed a part or all of GameGuard. Please scan your computer to find the virus and then disable the scanner during the installation of a new copy of Cross Fire.
Game Guard Error Codes (Taken from the GG website):
* Error 110
Nprotect has already been loaded, hit alt+ctrl+del or ctrl+shift+esc to open the task manager, open processes and end process of trose.exe and GameMon.des.
* Error 112
Please be sure your PC is free of viruses, and that sufficient memory is available. You may wish to make sure your virus scanning program is up-to-date and functioning properly, and that you do not have too many other open programs.
* Error 114
Initialization error 114, this may be caused by a variety of issues. Try the following System restart(rebooting), Update Windows and get the Windows Security Updates, Collisions with other programs could also be a factor make sure all background programs that are not needed are off (some firewall or protection programs may cause this as well), or this might be caused by Spyware/Virus at which point you need to deal with those first before the game will work properly.
* Error 115
Game has been executed multiple times, or GameGuard is already running. Close the game and restart.
* Error 120, 124, 141, 142, 150, 153
Your installation of NProtect is either incomplete or damaged. Please delete the GameGuard folder and repatch Cross Fire, or try clicking on the [Check Files] button.
* Error 155
This means that you have a serious virus or Hard disk corruption. Try restoring it via
http://www.microsoft.com* Error 170
Delete the GameGuard folder and run the patch program again.
* Error 230
The other fix is to just uninstall MS completely and reinstall it.
* Error 340
1. Click on Start
2. Click on run
3. Type c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc and click ok
4. Delete ''Hosts'' file.
* Error 350
The NProtect patcher was cancelled. Restart Cross Fire.
* Error 360
Be sure that your firewall is allowing Cross FIre or delete the GameGuard folder and run the patch program again.
* Error 361
Check if you are authorized to use Internet and check if your Internet is working right or not. If that doesn't work just re-Download Game guard.
* Error 380
Hosts file is incorrect: go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and open the hosts file with notepad. make sure to delete from the list there anything with no "#" in front of the line and that has anything with the name GameGuard in it in any variation. In fact the only 2 entries that are commonly there are "127.0.0.1 localhost" and "::1 localhost" if only those two are present then you should be ok. (For vista users make sure you open the hosts file by right clicking on the file and selecting "run as administrator" to make sure you can save.)
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