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Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 3

Ok, to start off, zmud was working perfectly fine for the past 3 years for me. So the other day, I try to load zmud, nothing happens. No errors, nothing at all. I reboot, same problem. I've tried installing older versions/betas/everything. Can't get zmud to load. If anyone knows what could cause this, please post!

Thanks,

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

You said you have tried re-installing. Have you tried a clean install (make a backup of your settings file, unistall zMUD, delete all remaining files, re-install zMUD)?

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 3

Yes, I installed zmud to an alternate directory, but it doesn't work still. I don't wanna do a complete uninstall on my old one, as I have a *ton* of data saved in there.

If this helps any I'm running/using
win2k, p4 2.2ghz oc'd to 2.9 ghz, 2 gig of ram.

Thanks!

Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 3

Well, I just started some service called "LicCtrl Service", whatever that is, and zmud works. Thanks for the reply, Kjata. Do you happen to know what that service is, that it is so dependant to zmud that it won't run without it?

Thanks.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 152 Location: USA

LicenseControl?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

quote:

LicenseControl?

ZMud uses eLicense. Not sure what the files associated with that are, though.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

That service is used by eLicense. eLicense is the Licensing/Protection scheme zMUD uses to prevent someone using zMUD without a license for it. eLicense is also in charge of providing customers with their 30-day free trial and denying them access to zMUD whent he trial is over. Basically, eLicense decides when zMUD will run and when it won't.
Also, the zMUD executable is encrypted and thus is not a valid executable file by itself. LicCtrl is in charge of decrypting the file and letting the OS run it.

Kjata