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Discovery does not start, "common.dll" is missing - Genkis - 09-19-2014

Hi, i have recently installed the Discovery Mod and started playing online.
I was amazed and invited a friend to play with me.

He installed Freelancer. It does run perfectly.

But his Discovery Installation does not even start. The game reports the file:
"common.dll" as missing.

the problem is, "common.dll" is not missing. it is there.

we tried to reinstall Discovery, then Freelancer and Discovery alltogether.
we tried it as a Windows-Admin and without.
we used the common.dll, directly extracted from the freelancer cd

we tried starting it in compatibility-mode and without.


we do not know what to do.

Freelancer by itself runs normally. Discovery does not.


Can you help?

RE: Discovery does not start, "common.dll" is missing - Swifty - 09-19-2014

Probably it's the Anti-Virus who causes that.
(11-09-2013, 02:20 AM)Kazinsal Wrote: Known antiviruses that have this issue:
  • Agnitum
  • Avira
  • AVG
  • Bkav
  • CMC
  • Ikarus
  • McAfee Web Gateway

The solution? Well, you have a couple:
  • Switch to an antivirus that doesn't have this issue (we recommend Avast or MSE)
  • Set an exception in your antivirus for files named DSAce.dll
  • Set an exception in your antivirus for your Discovery Freelancer 4.87 folder (recommended)


RE: Discovery does not start, "common.dll" is missing - Rebirth - 09-19-2014

There is an error in your registry. Get CCleaner and run Registry Cleaner you will get around 100~ failures. Fix them all. Problem should be solved then, don't forget to restart your PC after running CCleaner.

regards,
Rebirth

RE: Discovery does not start, "common.dll" is missing - Rebirth - 09-21-2014

Any feedback if this is resolved?

regards,
Rebirth

RE: Discovery does not start, "common.dll" is missing - Genkis - 09-21-2014

Ahw, sorry for no reply.

My friend is not at home these days so we were not able to test it yet.

I will of course report on how it went as soon as we tried.

Thanks for the answers already! Big Grin