Please help i keep getting a run time error when i try to execute the BOFE executable? Anyone have any ideas please.

I continue to have runtime errors also. I ran all of the runtime updates that I could find and now the game will at least start. If I play as the Federation and I hit end turn, it gives me a runtime error and ends the program. It also gives me the error and shuts down if I try to play as the Romulans, but the Romulun game won't even start.

jpoling, this error you have (as sad as it is of course ) is very interesting for us since it seems it's the same thing that keeps it "crashing" (though it crashes not literally, it just doesn't continue cause the button freezes..) on win2k.

so if you could specify your xp a bit more, like if it's running any service packs and which ones. There are windows update packs for any Windows Version with or without any Service Pack so I suggest you start by installing the appropriate one first and tell us if it has helped. If it has (which I strongly assume cause the game always worked so far on a fully updated XP) then do tell us.

We need to find out which patch it is so we can add the file/dlls statically to the bote exe and hopefully it'll run smoothly on 2k too then.

Links: if you got an english Windows XP with Service Pack2 installed.

There are other Update Packs but this one is in english (though from a swiss site, but that shouldn't matter much ) and the SP2 can be downloaded from Microsoft's Download Main Site easily.

[Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library]

Runtime Error

[Socket Notification Sink: BotE.exe - Application Error]

The exception unknown software exception (0x40000015) occured in the application at the location 0x0052cb83

Hope this helps. Still makes me wonder how i managed to run the game 2 times before. But from what i`ve seen so far in the game it`s impressive. Keep up the good work, guys.

Sockets can be tricky. It's possible that when you closed BotE before, it wasn't able to close the socket. Try using Task Manager to see if there are any rogue botf2.exe processes still running, and kill them if you find any.