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Anonymous

12 years ago

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DAO won't start

Hello in the recent time DAO wen't free on origin so i grabbed a copy for me days ago, during the first installanion attempt i had a issue with the VC++ not installing on the machine, i have worked a...

Anonymous
12 years ago
I really want to spank myself with a spiked club right now, but at least i managed somehow to start the game, and i hope this helps anyone who will encounter my same problem:
I have Comodo Antivirus installed on my PC (The free version of course) and for some reason it stopped DAO from starting , but without any warnings about it , so for just for a combination i went in the game folder and found the executable of DAO and launched in in the SANDBOX MODE of COMODO.....with horribly astonishment it started .
So for anybody with my issue you have to SANDBOX the EXE of the game to play it, or give it permission manually in the antivirus, something i did not test.
Well i guess COMODO hates DAO..or origin, or even EA.

Anonymous

12 years ago

I really want to spank myself with a spiked club right now, but at least i managed somehow to start the game, and i hope this helps anyone who will encounter my same problem:

I have Comodo Antivirus installed on my PC (The free version of course) and for some reason it stopped DAO from starting , but without any warnings about it , so for just for a combination i went in the game folder and found the executable of DAO and launched in in the SANDBOX MODE of COMODO.....with horribly astonishment it started .

So for anybody with my issue you have to SANDBOX the EXE of the game to play it, or give it permission manually in the antivirus, something i did not test.

Well i guess COMODO hates DAO..or origin, or even EA.

HeronimusX

12 years ago

I have the same problem and have searched for a solution for 2 weeks. Since I also use Comodo (which ist not spreaded to a very large extent), I am pretty sure that your solution will also work in my case. So thanks for posting your experience!

I am looking forward to testing it after work ;-)