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Garbadge Man · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:52 am Post subject: I want to play smallball

All right, for those of you who haven't noticed (which I'm sure is everyone) I haven't been training a team or playing games in a long long time. I was forced to quit because I couldn't do anything smallball related with any of my computers... Over the past year all of them have been formatted and such and I've tried it again on all of them and it still doesn't work. I really want to be able to play the game again but every time I try to actually play a game I get a "calculation failed" error. I can train fine but I honestly have no will to play if I'm just going to train and train and do nothing with my team. Any help with this would be nice.

ukce1861 · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:14 am Post subject:

You're a smart guy, so I don't want to insult you, but I have to ask, have you updated your java?

Rowdy Rooster · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:44 am Post subject:

To the man who has always had my favorite avatar I say "Welcome back to the game".
You have no trouble with training but you can't play games? Are you looking for someone to initiate games for your team or are you just looking for an answer to your problem? Or both?
I really don't have an answer to the '"calculation error" that you are experiencing but if you need some help initiating games with your team until you rectify it, I would be happy to try and help. The java update seems to resolve most issues but I'm sure you've already tried that (Like Ucke said). Anyways, here to help on the non-technical issues for a little while if necessary. Wink

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Garbadge Man · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

bigdogv65 · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

Did you get it fixed? I'm sure someone here can help you. Anyone?
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trogdor5 · Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Location: USA Forum ID: 5462

well, the only reason I could think of this happening is because some file of the game got screwed up or moved from it's correct folder... as said before, you're a smart guy and I wouldn't want to offend you but did you try uninstalling and reinstalling?
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ukce1861 · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Garbadge Man · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:29 pm Post subject:

I uninstalled and reinstalled everything remotely smallball related... I can't get anything working. Every time I come back from the calculation failed error windows XP opens up an error report screen and smallball closes. One of my games apparently actually did initiate but I never got to see it or anything pertaining to it, it didn't even show up on the home page. It just said on the screen that I had a game in progress. Confused

willybang · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

The problem with game rendering has come up a number of times recently

I had the same problem myself after re-installing the latest version of smallball around 6 months ago..
tried uninstall/re-install, update Java etc all to no avail..
The only way I could initiate and watch games was to do the following..

Right click on the smallball shortcut, choose properties and change the "Target" to read
"C:\My Games\SmallBall\start.jar"

you should be able to play games normally, the only minor irritation is that when you exit DT,
smallball shuts down and you have to click on the shortcut to re-open it

Hope this works for you..
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ukce1861 · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject:

Garbadge Man · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:

Garbadge Man · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:13 pm Post subject:

I got the game to work... But now I can't use DT. I open it and it starts to load and then when the screen disappears to open the actual DT the actual DT doesn't open and nothing shows up. Then I have to re-open smallball.

trogdor5 · Veteran Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Location: USA Forum ID: 5462

Wookie8662 · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject:

Not sure if this will help or not.

I cant run the DT, while I have Yahoo messenger.
Its the only program that stops my DT from running.
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speedracer70 · Expert Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: TEXAS Forum ID: 1266

You didn't state what operating system you are running but this will fix it anyway.
Uninstall Smallball using the control panel in Windows. Then look in the drive you installed Smallball and delete any folders that are left. Download a fresh file from the Smallball home page with the java file in it. IF you are using XP you will need to search the forum and find the XP SMallball patch and install that also.

Hope this helps.
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Garbadge Man · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:59 am Post subject:

I am using XP...

I tried the uninstall and reinstall thing and all it did was stop games from working again.

To get them working I updated the java on the downloads page and then changed the path on it to start.jar and it started to work. I still can't to anything in the ways of DT though.

speedracer70 · Expert Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Location: TEXAS Forum ID: 1266

The only thing I can think of concerning the DT is computer hardware related. What type of computer, video card, etc. are you using?
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Chippy · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:

You stay away from this game, Badge. 4ever.
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Garbadge Man · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

Garbadge Man · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject:

*bump*

Problem is still unsolved.