** failed to open uix86.dll for writing

[o0MrCheesy0o]

At the end of a match, and when the game goes to load a new map I usually get a grey screen with this printed:

** failed to open uix86.dll for writing
Please report the the problem you encountered on the Quake Live forums.
You must reload the web page to make this display go away.

Why? Wat doo? :<

[an00bis86]

Try running the browser (i.e. QuakeLive) as an administrator.
Also, see this thread: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...-writing/page2

In the future, please try searching for similar threads before making a new one. Thanks!

[o0MrCheesy0o]

Try running the browser (i.e. QuakeLive) as an administrator.
Also, see this thread: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...-writing/page2

In the future, please try searching for similar threads before making a new one. Thanks!

I'm an administrator in Windows XP, so none of that annoying "needs to be ran as an administrator" crap that plagues the other Windows OSs. Also, I'm using QLPrism, which seems to cause less of this type of crashing than using Firefox does. *shrugs*
I'll try re-installing QL tomorrow.

[TheMuffinMan86]

Delete %appdata%/id software/quakelive/home/baseq3/uix86.dll and reload the site, that might do the trick. Also: agreed on the XP thing. Got a new PC with Win 7 but still prefer to use my older XP machine because Vista/7 is so remarkably anal.

[o0MrCheesy0o]

I've tried everything mentioned, and it doesn't fix the problem. I should note that this problem only occurred after the update with QLPP12. All the computers I've played QL on have this problem too, on a variety of OSs - XP, Vista, and 7 :<

[Lorfa]

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...l=1#post131711

[stownr]

The second link in lorfa's link has the fix.
*Not that it matters in this case, but 'run as' administrator is not the same as being on the admin account and does fix certain issues.

[an00bis86]

LOL, that's what I linked to earlier in the thread.

The second link in lorfa's link has the fix.
*Not that it matters in this case, but 'run as' administrator is not the same as being on the admin account and does fix certain issues.

[o0MrCheesy0o]

The second link in lorfa's link has the fix.
*Not that it matters in this case, but 'run as' administrator is not the same as being on the admin account and does fix certain issues.

The fix? Was it uninstalling and then installing fresh? If so, it didn't work. Neither did deleting the .dlls. :<

[Yakumo]

check the ownorship of the folder it's trying to write to and the persmissions.

for me the folder owner is set to yakumo my user account

then permissions are

SYSTEM Full control (inherited from c:\users\yakumo)
Administrators Full control (inherited from c:\users\yakumo)
Yakumo Full control (inherited from c:\users\yakumo)

if they're set the same for you (but for your user obviously) and you delete the files inside, then the plugin shouldn't have any problem recreating them if you're using chrome firefox or opera. unless you have some 3rd party tool preventing this.