Why does the editor restart itself?
By
Roderick,
Posted on: 2010-09-10 03:19 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I couldn't tell you, but both of my computers (both running Vista) do that on occasion, but usually start "normally", like you describe on your XP machine.
Are you running CoH in Administrator mode on the Win7 machine, or from an Administrator account? Are there any processes running in the background that might interfere with it (such as a virus scanner)?
If it's not related to either of those, I have no idea.
@Roderick
I'm running it from an administrator account as an administrator. The exe requires to be run as administrator or it won't run, so I have no choice. As far as virus scanners, I have Avast!, but I have Avast! on my XP 32 machine, too.
And I don't think that's an error. I know the Updater is designed to close itself and restart itself in certain situations, such as when an updater update is launched, which isn't all that frequent. I don't know why it does it every time, however, unless it needs to restart itself with extra options or start a different version of itself.
One interesting thing I noticed when I wrestled with the bug which changed my Live shortcut to launch off my Beta folder was that the updater seems to want to create a cohupdater.something on Windows 7 64. The reason I know this is I deleted my CohBeta folder (don't need it any more), but neglected to alter my "Start in" setting on the shortcut, which still pointed to CohBeta. When the new patch tried to load, it told me the system can't access C:\...\Desktop\CohUpdater.something, and I found three empty files like that on my desktop after trying three times. Every time this occurred, it would happen when the updater closed itself, but failed to reopen with that message.
I fixed the problem by running CohUpdater.exe straight from the City of Heroes folder and subsequently by fixing my shortcut's settings. But I still think the updater creates a file when it runs on Windows 7 64 that I don't see when it runs on Windows XP 32.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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*edit*
I meant to say UPDATER, not editor in the title, but I can no longer alter the thread title to fix the goof. Sorry.
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I just want to clear something up - I'm not talking about a bug. However, every time I run the City of Heroes updater on Windows 7 64, it spends a while doing nothing, then closes itself and reopens anew, and only then does it allow me into the game. Now, originally, I thought this was just how the thing was changed to work, since I don't know how it actually works.
However, running it now on the Windows XP 32 here at work, I don't see any such thing. The updater looks for a patch, finds nothing and then proceeds into the Next -> I agree sequence in the same window. No self-closing, no self-restarting.
Why is that?