Problems with my FM09

there have been (im guessing) millions of threads with people who have problems. but mine is unique.

i played fm09 through steam. and last night i started playing online against a mate through hamachi. the next morning i went to play when i got all these pop ups with numbers saying it couldn't load. so i thought i'll unistall the game and do it through the other company and not steam. so i couldn't find the uninstall.exe or whatever so i went to add/remove programs (on my xp) and deleted steam. now when i put in the football manager disc, nothing happens. no autorun or anything. i tried deleting the certificate like fm09 website said and re-booting and trying to install but it wouldn't pop up to install. could someone please help me?

thankyou in advance,

criscione.

there have been (im guessing) millions of threads with people who have problems. but mine is unique.

i played fm09 through steam. and last night i started playing online against a mate through hamachi. the next morning i went to play when i got all these pop ups with numbers saying it couldn't load. so i thought i'll unistall the game and do it through the other company and not steam. so i couldn't find the uninstall.exe or whatever so i went to add/remove programs (on my xp) and deleted steam. now when i put in the football manager disc, nothing happens. no autorun or anything. i tried deleting the certificate like fm09 website said and re-booting and trying to install but it wouldn't pop up to install. could someone please help me?

thankyou in advance,

criscione.

You should be able to double click on the disk in My Computer and autorun should start automatically, if not right click on the disk in my computer and select explore, then run the setup file or the autorun file. Hope that Helps

You should be able to double click on the disk in My Computer and autorun should start automatically, if not right click on the disk in my computer and select explore, then run the setup file or the autorun file. Hope that Helps

You're an absolute champion mate i really appreciate this. I wasn't expecting a reply for hours!!! straight away! i did the autorun and it didn't work but setup.exe did. thankyou so much. PROBLEM SOLVED!

To explain the issue to you...your computer was basically being a difficult and unwilling arsehole

Congrats on getting it sorted

You're an absolute champion mate i really appreciate this. I wasn't expecting a reply for hours!!! straight away! i did the autorun and it didn't work but setup.exe did. thankyou so much. PROBLEM SOLVED!

No worries mate, any time.

hmmm well it installed but when i activated the code the same thing happened before. i printscreened what happened after i put in the activation code and double clicked Football Manager 2009:

help!!

if someone could please help me with this problem i'd greatly appreciate it.

if someone could please help me with this problem i'd greatly appreciate it.

Ok, you should download a program called Your uninstaller and remove all traces of the installation, then try install again, dont forget to reboot after you uninstall. Let me know how you go.

Ok, you should download a program called Your uninstaller and remove all traces of the installation, then try install again, dont forget to reboot after you uninstall. Let me know how you go.

ok mate i'll try that now.

hmmm well it installed but when i activated the code the same thing happened before. i printscreened what happened after i put in the activation code and double clicked Football Manager 2009:

Never seen so many items in a system tray! I hope you bought FM09 too, only I couldn't help but notice the bit torrent you had running there.

Once you remove all of the cache files and registry entries and then reinstall it, then it should work. I emphasise should.

Never seen so many items in a system tray! I hope you bought FM09 too, only I couldn't help but notice the bit torrent you had running there.

hahaha nah i did buy it.

Once you remove all of the cache files and registry entries and then reinstall it, then it should work. I emphasise should.

where do i find the cache files and registry entries? in steam?

i tried what grimoz told me to do. still the same thing happens. i'm absolutly devistated atm.

i might note between the 5th and 6th notice it gives me, the game actually starts to load up and stops at the sega logo.

help please!

You need to go to your 'my documents' folder and find your FM09 profile. Open the folder and delete everything in there (or just delete the folder itself) and you'll be able to play.

I don't have XP so i can't tell you exactly where it is more precisely, but it'll be in 'My documents/sports interactive/FM09' somewhere i think.

Failing that it will be in "documents and settings/application data/sports interactive/FM09"

You need to go to your 'my documents' folder and find your FM09 profile. Open the folder and delete everything in there (or just delete the folder itself) and you'll be able to play.

I don't have XP so i can't tell you exactly where it is more precisely, but it'll be in 'My documents/sports interactive/FM09' somewhere i think.

Failing that it will be in "documents and settings/application data/sports interactive/FM09"

ok i'll try that now

if that doesn't work, try this:

I can't play the game due to an XML parsing error

If you have a shortcut on your desktop you can do the following:

* Right-click on the FM shortcut.

* Choose "Properties" from the pop-up menu.

* In the "Target" field, add the --reset_preferences command line option after "fm.exe", so it should look like this:

"C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\fm.exe" --reset_preferences

* Press OK and then try to run the game as normal, using the shortcut.

You'll want to remove the command after you run the game, as otherwise it will continue to reset your preferences every time you launch.

If you don't have a shortcut you can make one and then perform the instructions on the shortcut you've made.

* If you purchased and installed the game through Steam you should be able to find the fm.exe in the following directory:

C:/Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/Common/Football Manager 2009/

* If you purchased and installed the game from a boxed DVD copy you should be able to find the fm.exe in the following directory:

C:/Program Files/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2009/

PROBLEM WITH SHORTCUT:

The name 'C:\Program' specified in the Target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct.

:S

That is because you only have C:\Program in the target box. You need to have all this: "C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\fm.exe" --reset_preferences" when resetting the preferences. Hope that helps.

That is because you only have C:\Program in the target box. You need to have all this: "C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009\fm.exe" --reset_preferences" when resetting the preferences. Hope that helps.

i copy and pasted exactly what you and wakers did and thats what it came up with. dio mio all i wanna do is playyy :(

hold on might work now lets see

ok so it skipped everything now (all the warnings) except the football manager is running low on memory. that exited the game otherwise that thing wakers just told me worked. how do i clear up memory for football manager (im sorry guys i really appreciate your help fwiw )

hmm, how much memory is there in your computer?

atleast 1gb. i'm gonna put some stuff on my hard drive now and delete some stuff.

are you on xp or vista? how many processes do you have running?

(right click on the task bar, run task manager)

Memory is not the stuff on your hard drive. That is different.

But as Wakers said what have you running and are you on Xp or Vista?

As long as you are not running a huge amount of processes, it should work.

Let me know.

are you on xp or vista? how many processes do you have running?

(right click on the task bar, run task manager)

96 processes. its an XP. is that alot?

96??? Good god man! That's more than twice what you should have running!

96 processes. its an XP. is that alot?

What are the main processes?

try and give a screenshot of your task manager if you can, click on the "memory" column first so we can see what the biggest ones are

this is what it is:

what should i get rid of.

the weird thing is i've been playing this for months and this has just happened out of the blue :S

yeesh that's one long list of stuff. What are all the yahoo widgets you've got?

I have no idea what that status~1 thing is, now the hamachi.exe, no the wm.exe or wmrundll.exe are.

I dunno what savservice is (antivirus?)

Is that a laptop?

Get rid of chrome. Use Firefox.

Sophos(savservice) AV uses loads

Do you need yahoo widgets.. or steam?

yeesh that's one long list of stuff. What are all the yahoo widgets you've got?

I have no idea what that status~1 thing is, now the hamachi.exe, no the wm.exe or wmrundll.exe are.

I dunno what savservice is (antivirus?)

Is that a laptop?

its a laptop through my school so it has programs we need for school like status wm wmrundle.

Get rid of chrome. Use Firefox.

Sophos(savservice) AV uses loads

Do you need yahoo widgets.. or steam?

i used to use firefox but i really like chrome its the bookmarks on firefox that dont work and i need bookmarks ahaha.

i need sophos thats through the school.

i can get rid of widgets and steam.

anything with the word "tray" on the end doesn't need to be running while you're playing FM - neither does itunes helper. I gateway is an application server so i dunno why that's running on your computer.

WM and WMRUNDLL.exe can be closed while you;re playing.

epower_dmc can also be closed.

You need WM for school? Its for Zen media players isn't it?

You have a lot of things running there. But if it worked before with all those things running then I don't think that is the problem. It might help by closing down some however.

Another thing you could try is increasing the amount of virtual memory you have.

1. Right click on My Computer and choose properties
   
2. Click on the advanced tab
   
3. In the performance area, click the setting button
   
4. Click the advanced tab
   
5. In the virtual memory section click change
   
6. Then change it to something higher
   
7. Click set
   
8. Click ok through each window
   

Let us know how you get on

anyway, i gotta get some sleep, i didn't realise it was this late

Do as Jod says and good luck

its a laptop through my school so it has programs we need for school like status wm wmrundle.

i used to use firefox but i really like chrome its the bookmarks on firefox that dont work and i need bookmarks ahaha.

i need sophos thats through the school.

i can get rid of widgets and steam.

Bookmarks work fine on FF

Would be easier/better to stop alot of things loading at boot up then it is killing the processes.

still not enough memory! sheesh

Still not enough memory after increasing your virtual memory?

Try downloading startup control panel. You can then safely untick unnecessary processes loading at start up. Then reboot your computer. You can tick the processes again whenever you want.

Can also type msconfig in run to disable start up items.

Make sure you don't need what you are disabling. Can mess alot of things up

i just did the computer virtual memory thing im gonna reboot my lappy now.

Ok, hopefully FM works now.

Ok, hopefully FM works now.

STILL not enough memory. i seriously am gonna just get the lappy reformatted!

Have you used the startup control panel utility that I posted above?

Have you used the startup control panel utility that I posted above?

yeh didn't work. i'm just gonna get it reformatted.

Wait until the next patch. Other people having the same problem.

If you do reformat - when you reinstall all the stuff you need, make sure you don't leave anything that says "launch when windows starts" if you can - there's no need for those programs to be running in the background if you only use them at school - they launch when they're needed just as easily.

And uninstall FM first as you'll lose a "seat"