You may be wondering why you cannot start Damnation after getting past the little precache marker. Apparently the precache value got set too low in the game catalog, so the marker is in the wrong place in the game.

You need to download Damnation to about 62% (~5.2 GB) before you can play the game. We are working on fixing the problem, so sorry for the inconvenience and the head scratching.

Behold the power of Sticky. I considered annoucement, but changed my mind!

When I try to start the game I get a error: Exception occurred: Failed to load library d3dx10_35.dll what can this mean? I also sent logs and got Hotpink-254. thanks.

Beh, wish i read this earlier. I was at about 52% after downloading it for a day and a half (its like the anti-64 bit, it goes SLOWER then normal!) and pushed play, its back at 33% now. FML.

hawwies wrote: When I try to start the game I get a error: Exception occurred: Failed to load library d3dx10_35.dll what can this mean? I also sent logs and got Hotpink-254. thanks.

You may need to update your DirectX to the latest since this is a the DirectX library. Try checking this out: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... 2d8712d553

compumom wrote: Beh, wish i read this earlier. I was at about 52% after downloading it for a day and a half (its like the anti-64 bit, it goes SLOWER then normal!) and pushed play, its back at 33% now. FML.

It may say 33%, but if you check the size of the game folder it should still be at the right size (meaning you haven't lost any data). It seems like the actual download works fine, but the download status bar doesn't. All the numbers are wrong anyway. Even when it seems like it's working, the amount of data in the folder is often almost a gigabyte higher than what is reported on Gametap.

yeah. Right now its at, oh, 56%, with 9 hours remaining for download. Very odd, considering i got UT 3 downloaded in about a 10th of the time, maybe 2 hours max.

tellin359 wrote: It may say 33%, but if you check the size of the game folder it should still be at the right size (meaning you haven't lost any data). It seems like the actual download works fine, but the download status bar doesn't. All the numbers are wrong anyway. Even when it seems like it's working, the amount of data in the folder is often almost a gigabyte higher than what is reported on Gametap.

This theory is probably correct. If you want to force the player to recalculate the game file size from the current disk state, just do the following:
1) Make sure GameTapPlayer.exe is not running in the process tab of TaskManager.
2) Go to your game storage directory and delete the following directory: ../GameTap Web Player/appdata/gamedata/150008350.
3) Go back to gametap.com and go to the my games page. The game size should say zero.
4) Resume the download for the game by hitting the "On" button in the download queue and refresh the page
5) Game size should jump up to the correct value.

Ya I got the update for directx and it works fine now...minus the fact that my vid card cringes at this game and makes things look like colecovision lol

lol. Can't wait to see how it looks. I'm at 68% right now, i'll see if i can get it to run.

9 damn hours until completion. BAH!

Is Damnnation ANY good at all? Everything that I heard from it was pretty negative.

Damnation is a horrible game, CanofWorms, and I pity those that are about to experience its ugly splendor

Isaristh wrote: 9 damn hours until completion. BAH!

Thats nothing, mine said it would take 3 days. It speed up though.

It wont even download for me.

Zandor101 wrote: It wont even download for me.

I second this! I've been trying to download this for DAYS now... it just sits at 0%. I've downloaded other games while Damnation has been in queue (Velvet Assassin being one of them), so I know downloading works. (Yes, I love bad games....). Every so often when I reopen my browser I get an error (forgot the code) that says my download is corrupted please delete it out of the queue and try again. I know I have enough space, 220GB, plus like I've said, I've downloaded other games just fine. I am on XP SP3 and I've tried FF 3.6.6 and IE 8. Please help!

ark71 wrote: Zandor101 wrote: It wont even download for me. I second this! I've been trying to download this for DAYS now... it just sits at 0%. I've downloaded other games while Damnation has been in queue (Velvet Assassin being one of them), so I know downloading works. (Yes, I love bad games....). Every so often when I reopen my browser I get an error (forgot the code) that says my download is corrupted please delete it out of the queue and try again. I know I have enough space, 220GB, plus like I've said, I've downloaded other games just fine. I am on XP SP3 and I've tried FF 3.6.6 and IE 8. Please help!

Here is the error I receive:
Error 4100
The GameTap player was unable to load your game. It may be the game file is corrupted. Please refer to this help article.

And yes, I've read Gametap's take on Error 4100 here: http://support.gametap.com/selfservice/template.do?id=1496 and their only solutions are to 1) try again (which I have for DAYS) or 2) the drive space is full, which it is not since I have 200+GB and have downloaded other large games (as stated above)...

So, if anyone has any ideas/sugguestions, please let me know.

Thx!

Someone posted a way to get around this since you said it's just sitting at 0%. Here's the link: 4100-can-t-get-rid-of-it-t37582.html

If I understand the directions correctly, the cache files should be in the C:\programdata\gametap web player\games folder if you have Vista or Windows 7 and
C:\Programfiles\Gametap Web player\games for Windows XP. If there are a bunch of numbered folders, these are your game folders. I would arrange these by size, as it should be the smallest one since it had not started to download anything. Hope that's right, I am just trying to interpret it.

I tried all this, and Damnation still the only game that won't download so I hardly think its anything on my end. Just sits at 0% only game that does in fact.