Hi Michael,
The article doesn't explain how to add the switch, sorry.
1. Save a new shortcut to your game on your desktop
- The fastest and easiest way is to copy an existing Shortcut:
2. Right click the Shortcut and select Properties
3. Edit the Target line in order to add the command to the end
- For example: The Target for the game might be
"G:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\DS.exe"
- You would add the command to the end of it as so:
"G:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\DS.exe" verifydata=true
or
"G:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\DS.exe" -verifydata=true
4. Click OK and double-click the new shortcut.
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| Jimmy ... I guess I don't understand where you mean when you say to add that
| to the "command line"
|
| | Hi Michael,
|
| Sorry to hear that you're still having problems.. perhaps the
| syntax of the command was wrong.. please copy and paste
| the command you used in your next reply. Hope I can help!
|
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| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
|
| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
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| _________________________________________________________
|
| || Jimmy S. .. thanks for responding. I am not receiving any fatal errors ..
|| just a box that says:
||
|| EXCEPTION DETECTED;
||| Gathering Exception Data - Note: This may take a minute or two
||
|| I don't understand what you mean about adding verifydata=true to the
| command
|| line of my shortcut. When I tried to enter that line in my shortcut
|| properties
|| in both the "target" and the the "start in" line, I get an error message
|| that says the "path specified is not valid and to make sure the folder
|| exists and that my path is correct."
|| Microsoft does NOT care at all about their product once they've gotten
| their
|| filty lucre for it ... I'll just not buy from them again.
||
|| Thanks for trying to help .. I appreciate it! Michael Mauzey
||
|| || Hi Michael,
||
|| Even though you're having the issue with DS I, since DS LOA
|| is installed, you should try these steps to identify corrupt files:
||
|| B. Known Issues Corrupted Files Errors While playing the Dungeon Siege:
|| Legends
|| of Aranna, you may receive a fatal error similar to the following: ==A
| fatal
|| error has occurred and the app must be shut down. Decoding error!
|| Compressed
|| data is either corrupt or unreadable, possibly due to hardware failure.
| Try
|| replacing or repairing the resource file (reinstall?) To fix this
| problem.
|| File on disk: '' Internal info: resource = offset = <0x00000000>
|| size = crc = <0x00000000> last error = <0x00000000> ==This error denotes
|| that the game is having trouble reading from one of its files. This
|| corruption
|| can occur in multiple places:
|| 1. In memory.
|| 2. While the data is being read from the hard disk.
|| 3. In the data files (.dsres) on the hard disk. To test the files on the
|| disk,
|| add the following to the command line of your Dungeon Siege shortcut:
|| "verifydata=true" (without the quotes).
||
|| NOTE: This ONLY TESTS the integrity of
|| the files, it is NOT A FIX. The test takes a few minutes and will tell
| you
|| if
|| you have any corrupted files (remember to remove the verifydata option
| from
|| your
|| shortcut after running the test). If you DO have corrupt files, please
| see
|| the
|| following Microsoft Knowledge Base article for further information on
|| uninstalling/reinstalling the game:
|
http://support.microsoft.com/?kb=321083.
|| If
|| NO corrupted files are found using the verifydata=true test, the
| corruption
|| is
|| occurring in memory or while the data is being read from the hard disk.
|| Dungeon
|| Siege uses your computer's hardware to its fullest potential, and is
|| therefore
|| sensitive to over clocked, tweaked, modified, or faulty hardware. Because
|| of
|| this, Dungeon Siege may appear to be the only application which fails.
|| Imbued
|| Items May Show Up in Inventory as Large Potions To revert the graphics to
|| normal, save the game and reload it. This should revert things to their
|| proper
|| appearance.
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any
| rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| |||I am playing Dungeon Siege (original game was included in retail expansion
||| pack of DS: Legends of Aranna) for
||| the second time. Occasionally I would get an:
|||
||| EXCEPTION DETECTED;
||| Gathering Exception Data - Note: This may take a minute or two
|||
||| and then the game would shut down and I would get Microsoft's infamous
||| "We're sorry CRAP". Lately, it is happening a LOT ... anyone have any
|| ideas
||| how to fix
||| this ? ... Microsoft offers NO support (surprise, surprise!)
||| and when I used their Search, it came up with nothing.
||| I had a similar problem with another game and it was caused by having too
||| many saved games ... but I only keep 4 or 5 saved games on Dungeon Siege,
|| so
||| that can't be the problem. Thanks a lot in advance ...
||| Michael Mauzey
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