flops wont load

posted on December 13th, 2010, 12:08 am

ok i downloaded when 3.1.4 came out and installed no problems now the game wont even load the title screen so im at a loss.

ive tried reinstalling

posted on December 13th, 2010, 12:11 am

Have you made sure that your antivirus is not quarantining your exe?

Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - Armada2.exe technical side note (no-cd patches, virus alerts)

posted on December 13th, 2010, 1:02 am

my anti virus isnt quarantining it but i just tried a reinstall and flops cant seem to uninstall it self because of this file in the flops main directery FleetOpsHook.dll

posted on December 13th, 2010, 2:15 am

Haven't posted in a while...but I came across your post and it kinda sounds like it could possibly be a corrupt install? Try redownloading, that could fix it.

posted on December 13th, 2010, 2:38 am

ok i redownloaded went and ran the setup it uninstalls then starts to install and i get this

Error opening file for writing

C:/ProgramFiles/Activision/Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations/FleetOpsHook.dll

posted on December 16th, 2010, 1:46 pm

Dammit, FO3.1.4 don't start for me either... I tried everything what I could. Deleted the whole install and install 3.1.4 by itself, tried to add the nocd armada2.ldl, the results are the same:
I try to start the game, but then nothing. If I open the Task Manager, Armada2.exe is there, but it's using only an insignificant size of memory, around 30-250 Ks.

Oh, I'm using the good old XP. I didn't want to change to 7 because I was afraid thet I won't be able to run Armada II.... 

posted on December 17th, 2010, 2:13 am

I have the same issue.  I click on the Fleet Ops executable and nothing.  I'm using Vista Home Premium 32-Bit.

posted on December 17th, 2010, 4:42 am

You all changed the ldl extension to exe then pasted the nocd right?

posted on December 17th, 2010, 10:19 pm

It made no difference. I tried with and without the nocd patch, the results were the same.
However, when I deleted Armada II from my HDD, from the registry and from my virus buster, and reinstalled only FO and restarted the game it worked fine after I defined fir the virus buster that armada2.exe is not a virus. It asked earlier, but still the game wont run. Interesting...

posted on December 18th, 2010, 5:44 pm

Same here, Flops just will not run under my 64 Bit windows 7, but works perfectly fine in my XP install?? 

A bit weird really and I hate having to dual boot into XP just to play this game!