Nightmare. No FC.

I've installed Lomac, no problem - works fine.

My Starforce drivers are up to date, so the sf update file reports

I have installed FC using Admin on the install, and running as Admin too, and even trying XP compatability.

I run Lockon.exe and after a short time I get sound, as per the menu screen, but an error message that a C++ runtime has caused a problem - "the application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way".

I've tried the 1.12B patch - which says it's trying to install the 1.12A patch - and despite downloading it twice, I get "Error 2" and the patch won't install.

I appear not to be the only person with an Error 2 error-msg - but searching everywhere I see no-one replying to those other reporters of error 2 issues.

I imagine the problem is that I'm not patching, so Vista compatibility is no good. But I can't for the life of me work out why the patch program won't play ball.

Any help, pretty please? I had the FC demo working fine, hence this purchase. Nasty that it won't run, on the day I receive it. Ho hum. Any suggestions much appreciated.

maxhome, I get the same problem :-( did you manage to resolve this ??

cheers

Michael

I too have the same problem as michaelk and maxhome when installing Lockon gold. Anyone ever sort this out?

got thois working by reinstalling then patching with the gold cd 1.12a from lomacfiles seems to work with vista ?? couldn't get 1.12a to 1.12b

Crap. I had the Lockon Gold specific 1.12a patch from the start but the game still crashes. AAAAAARRRRGGGGH!

So is just finally getting the right patch all you did different? Nothing clever you've had to do regarding running with admin permissions or compatibility modes?

Just a quick note to add that my problems were sorted eventually. Turns out I had one of the duff FC disks that shipped with Lock On Gold. An email was sent and a free replacement was sent to me (very quickly I might add) and that worked fine once I got it installed. The 1.12b patch also worked correctly with the new disk.

Fixed... at last!

Thanks to the Devs, who responded to my pestering emails.

Turns out there are TWO patches for 1.12b Vista compatibility. One for USA, one for UK, Germany etc.

I had the USA one. One download fixed the problem. Only available, as far as I can see, from Lockon.co.uk (I should tell Lockon files about this.)

Also had to disable UAC in Vista, but frankly that does my head in anyway, so am happy without it.

Hi!
Iīm still confused
I have Lock on, without FC.
I canīt run it on Vista. What to do? Can I use 1.12b? Or what?
Thanks

No, you cannot use 1.12b on a LOMAC install. AFAIK there is no Vista-specific patch for LOMAC.

Agramerus, Lomac works just fine under Vista. Just right-click on Lockon.exe and set "run in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode".

I run Lockon 1.02 without any problem. You do not need a Vista patch. In 1.1/1.12a you need the patch, not for Lockon itself, but for the Starforce drivers. In Lockon 1.01/1.02 there is no Starforce.