Champions Online Forum

Following this list;

MSXML 3.0  
MSXML 4.0  
MSXML 6.0  
DirectX Runtime - Modern 
MS Visual C++ 2008 Runtime 
msls31 
CrossOver HTML Engine

Taken from here: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=5391;forum=1;msg=88802

The installer crash when starting to download. In fact, I don't even start to download before it crashes.

Have I missed something? I'm using the trial of CXGAMES 10 before I decide to get a copy.

OT: Will we see Crossover on the App Store?

Get the full client install from here:

http://www.bigdownload.com/games/champions-online/pc/champions-online-free-to-play-client/

This works much better (as in, it actually works) than the downloader installer you get from the CO website.

You're also going to need a version of Internet Explorer installed in the bottle in order for the launcher to work. I have IE 8 installed (downloaded from Microsoft's website), and it works fine.

Hi.
With the same settings that I had in the old forum, I can't make it work.
I Get the white Loading page non stop, and if I try to install the game one more time (in another bottle) I get a runtime error at the end (it seems to be installed though).

I tried in another bottle with Virtual C++ 2008 and it is the same.

Any idea please?

Hi,

The crosstie installer is online now - try that...let me know how it goes.

Cheers!

I am sorry.
I was able to run it after all. The "please loading" window was just very very long the first time.
I am now at the character creation, is there a way to run the game fullscreen?

Thank you

I downloaded the client, and needed IE to run the updater. Well, the security certificate appears to be bad. Since it's not actually a browser window, I can't click proceed anyway. So I'm stuck.

Any suggestions? I just downloaded the IE 8 from microsoft and then installed it into the bottle.

wonderboy108@yahoo.com wrote:

I downloaded the client, and needed IE to run the updater. Well,
the security certificate appears to be bad. Since it's not actually
a browser window, I can't click proceed anyway. So I'm stuck.

Any suggestions? I just downloaded the IE 8 from microsoft and then
installed it into the bottle.

You should be installing via the Crosstie provided - is there a
reason you persist with manual installation?

Not really. I'll try the crosstie. Thanks.

It won't work with my browser. It says
Safari can’t open “com-codeweavers-crossover-crosstie:install?crosstie=http://www.codeweavers.com/bin/c4p/8464” because Mac OS X doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “com-codeweavers-crossover-crosstie:

It also doesn't work with firefox.

Does Crosstie work with Crossover games or just crossover?

Ahh! ... apologies - I tripped into a C4 handling glitche wrt install profiles
last week, and left this as the example for Mr Newman to look at. Although I
think he fixed the problem, the profile wasn't reloaded into the editor (which
I just did). The profile won't come back online for another 12hours or such,
so I've hoisted a copy of it for you on rapidshare ;

http://rapidshare.com/files/449544330/Champions_Online_-_Free_for_All_1_.tie

Just download it and open it with Crossover Games - should work, let me know
is you have any problems.

Cheers!

Thanks for the help. Yeah, it downloaded, but it ssays:
program error

The program iexplore.exe has encountered a serious probem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Then, DDE Failure.

Does it install everything for me, or do I need to add the runtime agents like before?

Hi again,

 Grrr... that's annoying, huh.. that error, is actually IE7 (mshtml7) throwing a  

wobbly as it fails trying to install itself -- from what you describe, it's failed
halfway through registering it's components, and left you with a corrupt mshtml7
installation. Unfortunately, in my testing here, it doesn't seem possible to fix
the mess that gets created there....

What should happen (ideally) when mshtml7 throws an error, is that one should stop
immediately (cancel installation), delete the bottle, and then run the .tie again.
Chances are it will work on the second attempt. There is a warning to this effect
that you get when installing IE7 into Crossover Office that if it fails to retry,
but retrying doesn't seem to work in CXG. I -could- put some install notes into the
mshtml7 tie, but, I don't think they'll get displayed in this tie -- I'll check...

...sorry for the hassles, this particular one is a pesky behavior of IE7/mshtml7
that, in the IE7 case, also affects Windows users - go figure 8) Although it's a
right pain, you should start from scratch again...

Cheers!

Back again. Yeah, it won't open. I made a new bottle and installed all the runtime components. I opened the tie with Crossover

it says there is no windows program configured to open this file.

Then it says:

The command "/Users/kellyh/Downloads/ChampionsOnline-_Free_for_All1.tie" returned 1.

StdOut:

StdErr:winewrapper.exe:error: cannot start L"Y:\Downloads\ChampionsOnline-_Free_for_All1.tie" (error 31)

I'm going to try and download it from big downloads, but any help you have would be appreciated.
Thanks again.

Hi,

You have to download the installer from the site specified
in the install notes when you load the crosstie profile. It has
to be that installer ; others will not work ;)

http://www.bigdownload.com/games/champions-online/pc/champions-online-free-to-play-client/

Cheers!

Okay. Thanks. The installer you just posted works. The only problem is that IE thinks that the uploader's security certificate is bad. I can't seem to get around it. Is there a way for me to bypass that? If it were actually IE I could go to preferences or something and get around that. Any suggestions?

Hey again. I downloaded IE 7 the first time when I got the security issue. Now I've downloaded IE 8 into the bottle. Instead of the security certificate, I get a blank screen for the uploader. I'm going to leave it up for a while and see if it resolves.

Got it. I only bought like Codeweavers 9.7. Crosstie needs 10.1. Thanks for the help. So I'll get the latest version soon and be good to go.

I got Champions to install fine, and I managed to get through the login and the patching. However, once it gets through the Cryptic and Atari loading screens, the game crashes before I get to play.
It just says that my Cryptic Application has crashed.
Any help/suggestions?

I was having the same problem. What fixed it for me was going to the options menu before hitting play and turning safe mode on. Also in the command line if you type in "-console" you can see what's happening before it crashes.

Hey

I am able to install the game and patch it. But as soon as the patch is done, the 'Play' button doesn't appear. Also, I can't press the 'Option' button on top of the launcher to turn fast launch on...

Anyone of you who experienced this and know how to fix this ?

Yeah, I'm having the same problem as Michelle. I did try the options, changing to Safe Mode, but I'm still having the same problem. The weird thing is that it was working perfect last night. I was able to play for about an hour before logging off normally. I just don't understand why I would be having this problem seemingly out of nowhere.

I'm also having the same problem as michelle on my mac...

the loading after pressing play (large cryptic black screen) crashes after 2/3 of the bar fills up....

safe mode doesn't work for me either.... anyone able to fix this yet?