So... I went on vacation over christmas, and before I left, I cut the power to everything in the apt to save energy. I changed NOTHING ELSE. When I got home, I switched on the power, tried to run Mafia, and... nothing. Tried the .jar file... and nothing. Didn't run, didn't give an error message... nothing.
I was going to upgrade this machine to windows 7 anyway, so I didn't try too hard to fix it. So, I reinstalled windows, then java, and tried again... nothing.
I tried running the .jar file manually from the command line and got an "ExceptionInInitializerError" thrown.
Re-downloaded the mafia .exe and latest .jar file... same thing.
Uninstalled and re-installed java... same thing.
Finally, re-installed XP... same thing.
In the course of upgrading and backing up data, I discovered that the motherboard's USB controller was failing, and installed a new PCI USB controller. NOTHING else was changed as far as hardware.
It seems to be just Mafia that's affected. Java in the web browser works fine.
At this point, I'm out of ideas about how to fix this. Anybody have any suggestions? My next step is switching out the whole motherboard, but I'd like very much to avoid that.
-Szepherd
I was going to upgrade this machine to windows 7 anyway, so I didn't try too hard to fix it. So, I reinstalled windows, then java, and tried again... nothing.
I tried running the .jar file manually from the command line and got an "ExceptionInInitializerError" thrown.
Re-downloaded the mafia .exe and latest .jar file... same thing.
Uninstalled and re-installed java... same thing.
Finally, re-installed XP... same thing.
In the course of upgrading and backing up data, I discovered that the motherboard's USB controller was failing, and installed a new PCI USB controller. NOTHING else was changed as far as hardware.
It seems to be just Mafia that's affected. Java in the web browser works fine.
At this point, I'm out of ideas about how to fix this. Anybody have any suggestions? My next step is switching out the whole motherboard, but I'd like very much to avoid that.
-Szepherd