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Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit

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Betheball:
So just bought this game off Ebay from the UK.  I have Windows 7 64 bit and it all installed fine.  Even launched and i got to play for about 3 or 4 hours without issue.  I exited the game and then tried to come back to play only to find that I get the above error?  Uninstalled the game and then reloaded, again played for a few hours and then exited.  Again, tried to play later on and again got the same message. 

I don't know what is going on.  anyone able to help?  I've got .net framework 4 on the system, anything else I can try.  I'll really like the game, but don't want to have to uninstall and install every time I want to play.

Thanks

Arparso:
Have you tried running it as administrator? (right-click nexus.exe or nexus_dx9.exe, click "Run as administrator")

During installation a few registry keys are created by the setup and these might end up in a different location than where they are read from during a normal game start. This might be the issue here and if it'll start when being run as administrator, than we'll know.

Betheball:
Thanks, I will go and give that a go and get back to you.... good work on keeping this site going by the way.

Betheball:
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar - thank you very much, that worked a treat.  Is there away to bring those reg files back over or should I just do that each time.  THanks

Arparso:
Should be possible. Nexus' installation (which runs as administrator) probably created the registry keys at...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mithis\Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

But the game running without administrator privileges looks for them here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mithis\Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

You can run "regedit" (hit Windows-key and [R], type "regedit"), navigate to the first path and create these same values at the second path, where they belong. Or, a faster way:

[*]start up "regedit"
[*]navigate to the first path above, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mithis\Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
[*]right-click the "Nexus - The Jupiter Incident" registry key and choose "Export"
[*]save it somewhere as "nexus.reg" (or whatever)
[*]open the file in a text editor and replace the path starting with "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE..." with the correct one (the second from above): HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mithis\Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
[*]save the changes and run the .reg file by double clicking
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This should add an identical copy of the correct registry values into the correct location and the game should start up fine now without the need to run as administrator.

I know it's really inconvenient, but Vista and Windows 7 just handle registry access a bit different than previous Windows versions and Nexus was developed years before that. And with the developer shutdown there won't be any patch to ever fix that issue. :(

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