FOF2 license error

[Taco]

I just starting up FOF2 for the first time in a few months, and I'm getting an error message that says, "Sorry, could not get a license at this time. Please try running this program later. 23" The game used to work fine on this computer. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

[vtbub]

Darkiller has a fix

[Taco]

bump...Darkiller or anyone else, any ideas?

[3ric]

Try PM him.

[aej]

Does the eLicense Control applet show up in Control Panel? Is all the information correct?
Email [email protected] - they usually sort these problems out pretty quickly.

[Taco]

Yep, the eLicense Control shows up and it says that it's licensed. The information looks correct. Thanks for that email address, I'll send them a message.

[aej]

2nd thought:

Have you installed one of the other games recently? When FOF2001 came out some of us had a problem running a formerly 'happy' FOF2 installation after installing FOF2001 and they released an update which cured the problem. If eLicense can't help I can let you have a copy of that update.

[Taco]

Thanks! I did receive a response from eLicense. They sent me a diagnostic tool to run that creates a file with information about my system in it. Hopefully they will get back to me tomorrow with a fix. If not, I'll gladly try your update!

Yeah, I did recently install Out of the Park Baseball 5. I bet you're right, something with that installation messed up my FOF2.

[Taco]

I still haven't heard back from eLicense ever since that first email. aej, could you still send me that update?

[aej]

I've put a direct link to the zip file here (http://www.aej.org.uk/fof)

Backup the original FrFoot.exe and vtcpak.dll files and replace them with the modified versions from the zip file. Hopefully that should solve the problem.

[Taco]

That worked!!! Thanks so much!