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Nexus - The Jupiter Incident => Help / Technical Support => Topic started by: Betheball on August 03, 2012, 15:08:42

Title: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: Betheball on August 03, 2012, 15:08:42
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
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: Arparso on August 03, 2012, 17:12:10
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.
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: Betheball on August 04, 2012, 01:14:18
Thanks, I will go and give that a go and get back to you.... good work on keeping this site going by the way.
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: Betheball on August 04, 2012, 01:24:01
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
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: Arparso on August 05, 2012, 01:22:24
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:


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. :(
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: myriandore on February 08, 2014, 22:32:21
Necroing this old post

Same problem here. Only I fail to understand your instructions from
Quote
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
Hope you can help, thanks
Myr
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: blklts on February 23, 2014, 00:46:44
Have the same error message but it happens in game right as battle starts. Here is the crash report from Windows 7 64 bit

Source
nexus_DX9.exe

Summary
Stopped working

Date
‎2/‎22/‎2014 5:59 PM

Status
Report sent

Description
Faulting Application Path:   f:\steamlibrary\steamapps\common\nexus the jupiter incident\nexus_DX9.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
Application Name:   nexus_DX9.exe
Application Version:   0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp:   425d196b
Fault Module Name:   nexus_DX9.exe
Fault Module Version:   0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp:   425d196b
Exception Code:   80000003
Exception Offset:   00017beb
OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID:   1033
Additional Information 1:   d6ad
Additional Information 2:   d6ad251caa900ae4cc032a8f99880af9
Additional Information 3:   55a9
Additional Information 4:   55a92b2086ea25302ad229c3ec572cbf

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:   461692732
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: Staiver on April 13, 2015, 22:28:31
I've got this error when the Titan started to explode (2 secs of cinematic,after comes the error) any ideas?
Title: Re: Nexus_DX9.exe has stopped working - please help - Windows 7 64 bit
Post by: Nicramus on February 25, 2016, 19:18:32
I used to have the same issue. (when titan explodes, game crash)
 Running as an adminstrator should fix this problem :-)