FEAR wont start???

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So I just bought FEAR for my PC and I cant get it to start. It downloaded well and everything but when I click the Play button all that happens is the little loading CD icon pops up then nothing...

My Specs
Intel Quad Core
4 GIG Ram
1 TB Hard drive
Radieon HD 4800

All of my other games like Half Life 2 and Far Cry work like charms but this doesnt do squat. I know that I have well over the necessary for FEAR but I don't know what to do... Any advice?
 
When you say download, do you mean you downloaded it online from a place like steam, or just that it installed to your computer OK?

Also, which OS are you using?
 
I forgot to mention that I've already patched it and uninstalled and reinstalled but still nothing.
 
Does anything show up in the event logs, or do you get any crash errors? It seems really strange to just not load anything or give an error. :confused:
 
Yes all of my drivers are up to date. I'm not sure how to check the logs but nothing happens no error message or anything. I hit play and then nothing it acts like it will load by showing a spinnin cd icon but then nothing happens and the icon goes away... it's rather saddening.
 
It's a possibility your optical drive (CD Drive) is faulty but unlikely as the game loaded ok.

The only other likely situation is that your game disk(s) are faulty.

Try and get a replacement from the place you bought the disk(s).

If the seller refuses to exchange either print this thread out and take it to the High Street store or point an online supplier to this thread.

Of course, it's possible you may have a software problem, are you running any other games successfully?
 
My CD drive works like charm. I'm not much of a computer gamer, mostly use it for graphic design, but my Half Life 2 and Far Cry run beautifly. I've wondered too if the discs might be faulty as well. Before I bought this game I accedently bought the stand alone expansion and upon install I had the same problem as what im gettinh now so I took it back to the store. Since then I bought FEAR and HL2 at the same time and installed HL2 after getting the current results with FEAR. Surely my luck couldn't be that bad as to get two Monolith games that were screwed up in package haha.
 
Ah, the problem is probably that you tried to install the expansion pack before the whole game then, your FEAR folder is possibly corrupted.

Uninstall both games then open your C drive (assuming that's where you installed the games) go to Program files and delete the FEAR folder (It may be a sub-folder within the Sierra folder and there may also be two folders to delete, one for FEAR and another for the expansion pack).

Then try reinstalling FEAR, patch it, run it to make sure it works, then install the expansion pack.

If it still won't work, you may have to edit the registry and I wouldn't attempt that if you're not sure what you're doing.

Anyhow, try deleting the FEAR folder first and let us know how you get on.
 
I deleted the sub folder like you suggested and reinstalled and patched however I'm still getting the same results. Have you ever seen anything like this happen before?
 
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