I'll keep this short, can't believe this problem is still happening after 10 years. I got a new computer and I'm trying to install the Large client of AO. It gets to load for half an hour and this error shows up. "ABORT: Pointer is NULL (.\socket.c/385)"
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2976/aobug.png
Can anybody help? Searched the internet for it aswell.
EDIT: It's not installing, It's (not) downloading. Thanks CriticalDmg.
Last edited by Eskarin; Dec 5th, 2011 at 22:38:49.
since 2005
Originally Posted by Means
I can't see the image (stupid proxy at work blocking it) but are you installing with the "new" online installer that takes a decade or using the large client .exe that's about 1.8GB and offline ?
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Nah, I'm using the one that takes a decade to install and well... It still doesn't work.
since 2005
If you're referring to the "AnarchyOnline_18.4.7-Large.exe" - it's not the installer, it's a download manager. I just downloaded it to see if I can understand your problem, and... lo and behold - I get the same error (and the DL manager crashed out).
Anyhow, I don't know why the error occurs, but I do know how to substantially speed the download up:
- Go to Options
- Untick the "P2P Enabled" checkbox in the lower right (the window will change it's look)
- In the newly created "HTTP Connections" entry, change the number from 1 to something higher (each new HTTP connection on my system resulted in a rough 300kB/s raise in DL speed)
Screenshot for reference: http://i41.tinypic.com/j8l2ts.gif
When it finishes downloading and finally starts installing:
The installer is defaulting to "C:\Funcom\Anarchy Online" which is fine, just don't install AO in "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)" for whatever reason that might come to your mind
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That solved my issue somewhow, thanks CriticalDmg!
since 2005
Sorry to necro, but I'm crashing whenever I try to run "AnarchyOnline_18.4.7-Large.exe" on an old PC running windows xp. No other screen come up except the Internal error popup containing
"ABORT: Certificate Authentication failed, please re-install to correct the problem. (.\winmain.c/261)" What do I do?
Is that the new installer? I just downloaded that the other day and it no longer has a 2gb exe that takes forever to check.
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