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AVP launches once then never again.
Feb 18th, 2024 at 11:23am
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Hi, I've ran into a bit of a odd problem, When I install AVP either via your exp, iso or my original disks. I can only ever get the game to launch once but its fully playable and I can customize settings with no issue, but as soon as I close the game after that first launch it never opens again.

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I'm on windows 10, this happens on both retail disk, exe and iso unknown version, for both base and primal hunt, I can uninstall and reinstall and get to play again but as soon as I close the program it refuses to go past the launcher.
On first time load up the launcher pops up fine and it sometimes struggles when I choose my default graphics settings, usually low will get me to go in where as pressing the high button is a 50/50 of launch. after this I can go into the settings in-game and change resoulution graphics options everything works fine.
then after a crash or I close it, I can still open the launcher but instead of the game launching I simply get a small black box for a few seconds then it disappears. I believe this to be the lithtech engine trying to load but failing. anyway this has stumped me hard and I wondered if anyone had any ideas?
  
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Re: AVP launches once then never again.
Reply #1 - Feb 18th, 2024 at 12:07pm
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**Update**

I decided to try other lithtec games, After installing NOLF from my CD it would not get past the launcher much the same, however NOLF2 did get past launcher and I could open and close the game several times without issue, unsure if this is relevant but with it being the same engine I figure if I could get NOLF to work I could get AVP to work, following this chain I found a thread about disableing "HID-compliant vendor-defined device" in the device manager, after doing so my NOFL started to get past the launcher and play, with that working I deicded to try AVP2 and to my joy it also is now working *fingers crossed* with several times opening and closeing the game, it just seems like some modern hardware is having an issue with it.

If there is anyone else with this issue I hope this helps them, I was almost ready to try and get a VM with W98 set up on it or pull out an old motherboard and build a machine to try and play this again.
  
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Re: AVP launches once then never again.
Reply #2 - Feb 18th, 2024 at 12:16pm
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Hello & Welcome!


Please try this.



DINPUT.DLL

https://avpunknown.com/avp2files/avp2dll/dinput.zip

The "dinput" fixes a common crash when you launch the game and any problems with keybindings.




Place it in your avp2 folder and relaunch.


We Also have a community discord here if you're interested.

https://discord.com/invite/esPD62d



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Re: AVP launches once then never again.
Reply #3 - Feb 18th, 2024 at 12:35pm
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Thanks I'll give this a try out!
  
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Reply #4 - Feb 19th, 2024 at 12:08am
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Thanks! this works great! Much appreciated.
  
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