Football manager 2009 cannot run game

The window outlines appear, but there are no contents and it hangs shortly. I'll try the SDK installation, see if that helps. If not, and there's no way to get it back to starting in fullscreen that doesn't involve any controls inside the same, I suppose I'll need to reinstall and never exit the game in windowed mode again.

Then had a look in the install directory under my Windows XP system, and it doesn't even contain that file so I deleted it from the above patch thinking it goes fullscreen by default if it doesn't find that file However, as I went to type this I just left the last startup window open even though it had 'apparently' hung and lo and behold, it hadn't Something like five minutes, to compare with the seconds it normally takes.

And upon coming back to life after this wait, a pop-up is displayed saying the face generator couldn't be initialized and so is disabled. Perhaps disabling this altogether will mean the game starts fast again. I then tried to switch to fullscreen mode in the preferences menu, which unfortunately crashed the game. And the mouse was out of synch, so it only half managed to switch to fullscreen.

Think I may reinstall and get back to this later, feels like a bit of a sidetrack. Hey guys, could you come to fmtux. Well, I had the problem when tried to put in windowed mode: it was working good in full screen, black screen in windowed. I resolved like this: just put in wine conf to emulate a virtual desktop I used x and it worked good. It acts as in window mode, but like that is more slow So I used this way to put back inpreferences "full screen" and playing in full screen.

Could someone please give me a very detailed description, from top til toe, on how you install FM09 with patch 9. I already have the cd, but I'd really like a very detailed description with: - which commands I need to use. Is there any solution for the blank screen yet? I'm running Ubuntu 8. I got the latest version of wine from the Wine HQ and installed java, directx, etc. I have even checked the dxdiag just to see if directx is ok. Everything seems ok. The error log is too big, so I will add it as an attachment.

And hope it can do some help. I can run the game on another computer that has an nvidia graphics card. I thought I'd add a note here - it seems that everyone with an Intel GMA card including me : is getting a black screen when running the game, with the pointer turning to a hand over the invisible buttons.

If anyone finds a solution, scream it from the rooftops! I had the same problem with windowed mode. My solution was to copy the Sports Intractive folder from Application data in windows and paste it to application data in wine ubuntu. The full screen came back and the game is ok now!

Meskel, Thank you! I just tried your advice and worked like a charm! I downloaded FM09 and I've installed wine and all the winetricks. First off I'm not completely sure whether java is installed. I downloaded both the java files one is 7mb and other is 15mb and tried them both. The first one told me that it couldn't uncompress, and when I tried the second file it said that java was already on the system and asked if it wanted to reinstall.

So to be sure, I said yes to the reinstall, and what happens Anyways I thought that what the hell, I might as well try installing the game. So I extracted all the files from the iso and ran the setup by double clicking on it. The first time I waited it out I tried again and the same thing happened, except this time I pressed Enter a couple of times and another window popped up saying that "the installer can't run on this system Anyways if you guys can help me out, I'll be a realllly happy!!!

I'm having a similar problem to you, it's all installed, activated, everything, I think i've installed DirectX, etc, yet I just get a black screen when I load it. Alright so now I'm getting the "failed to set up graphics system. Compiz disabled. Blank screen, cursor with a white box around it, changing to a pointer presumably on the buttons, but unable to see them.

Hit a brick wall myself, and it seems everyone else has too. Anyone have any ideas on a fix for this? Or has anyone been able to get FM running on VirtualBox? Hi all, This thread has helped me a lot but now I'm stuck. When I run fm. It spins off the screen to the right and then I just have a black screen. I have I had to add two windows native.

Run wine fm. Hi all My fm was running for a while and now it doesn't start anymore. I was running it through Steam and now it doesn't start when I try to run it. It doesn't even appear in the System Monitor. I have added those dlls mentioned in the previous post. I think the other was odbcbcp. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I got ubuntu 8. I got the game through Steam so it's patch 9. I installed the fix v3 to activate the game. Managed to run it and got an "activation successful" message or something similar. After running fm. I'm running wine as WindowsXP Anyone having the same problem? Have you tried deleting the activation cache and re-running the SI activation fix utility? Paul; have you verified the game files through steam? Before I added the.

I tried deleting those and doing it again but failed. Hi Thanks for the reply. Steam updated the files itself and I added the. It seems strange that it was running fine and all of a sudden it stopped. I am using Ubuntu 8. Thanks again. It looks like the key difference I have to you guys is that I'm running bit, but I don't know how much of a difference it is for Wine.

SI have had reports of games not running under Windows after this patch, so it isn't necessarily a Wine issue. One of the fixes that has worked in those cases appears to be to have Steam uninstall and then re-download the whole game. Hi To get the activation window to show correctly install ie6 via winetricks You should then be able to activate and run game.

Hi I have just checked before uninstalling reinstalling that my wine version is 1. I think it was version 1. Is there a way that I can get wine back to version 1. Paul I have installed Wine 1. Unsure what to do now. I'm running wine 1. I'd guess that given that there have been issues on Windows too, deleting and reinstalling through Steam is more likely to help than changing Wine version. I found that worked better than Vista from initial release.

Well FM works beautifully. So I just downloaded a midseason database update and playing fm :D Thanks for the help. Hi all, I dual boot win vista and intrepid, when using fm08 i just copied the exe over from vista and was able play the game, I've just copied the entire folder over but cant seem to get it to run, anyone know a quick fix?

Really want to play in ubuntu! I still haven't. I am trying to reinstall and I can't install from disc anymore because the windows that open for the installation are all blank.

Once i have downloaded the graphics package off microsoft do i just launch football manager and it will work??? For those struggling: I'm running FM09 legit, not pirate through the latest wine. It works ok on 8. I basically followed the tutorial on the fmtux website and was fine. I also ran the command in terminal to see what errors came up. It's straightforward if you're willing to do a little bit of detective work.

That's what always happens to me I get that same screen Maybe to get around the installation issues? Hi guys, i can't really run my football manager. The installation works fine and I fixed the activator problem. When I start fm. I installed this software but the problem isn't solve yet. What does it mean? Thank you This is a java problem. Couldn't be a problem install the game if you follow the instruction of fmtux. I hope this could help you. I have the same problem,i tried with the help of fmtux.

Guys, the Virtualbox 3 Beta has experimental DirectX9 support. Then run fm. It didn't work in windowed mode for me, and occasionally crashes out on loading. If it does crash, reboot the VM, and load again, this seems to work. Issues are that you can't view the match in 3D, I just get a black field with the player names, the 2D view works fine however.

I managed to install the game with the blank screen. I enter the folder where the game is installed, run the fm. Hello, I have a problem, I installed the game, patched and cracked, but when I try to run fm. I use wine, and downloaded winetricks. I get: wine fm. Hello people, this is my first post, sorry about my English! Someone help me in this? Thanks, and sorry again about my english, it's very bad I know! By the way, I'm portuguese and a newbie in the forum!

I don't know what to do. Anyway, the problem is probably caused by video driver. Virtual machines doesn't have a good 3D support. However, nothing worked for me. It's good remember that wine is the best way to run games and any other 3D applications. I've gotten everything going ok, just cant get past the activation screen where you submit the product key? I dont think its a DirectX or Java problem as i've got both them installed, along with all the winetricks stuff mentioned in this thread.

Also been through the fmtux site and did everything there. Any ideas because im stumped? I bought FM09 and installed it and updated it to 9. I have Ubuntu 9. I can run FM09 from Vista x Thanks I get that same box.

I am wondering if we can run a command from command line to activate that box and then insert our activation codes through terminal??? I'm a complete noob when it comes to Ubuntu, just installed it a couple of days ago. But so far i love it.. I get that same box. Im not sure to be honest. Thats a bit out of my scope unfortunately. Im going to try and install it again this weekend, gave up last time.

Well, I gave up kind of. I had the opportunity to obtain an XP disk. I installed it in virtualbox as a VM. I then was able to install FM09 right into the VM. I kept hearing how this wasn't possible. So, now I can play FM at just about the same speed as "normal".

Now have to use an older laptop just to play. I'm tired to try a lot of think for playng FM, bouth parts are disapoiting but windows is sucks I will try to not use windows for nothing more :.

I'm tired to do things to make it wark I'm running FM09 on my Windows 8. It sounds like something may have changed the file directory it's reading from. Per page: 15 30 Date Posted: 22 Jan, am. Posts: Discussions Rules and Guidelines. FM09 Players. FM09 crashes on launch on lenovo thinkpad tablet 2. Store page? Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts. All rights reserved. Being published here means more exposure and recognition for you.

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