Far Cry and Half Life Episode I no Longer Launch

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I just download the Avast Pro version 4.7 and I’m running XP Pro-X64. Now when I launch Half Life and Far Cry both games now crash when they try to go full screen. I tried disabling On-Access Protection and even stopping all the Avast services to no avail. Please help!

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You can workaround this problem, maybe, addind the games to the Exclusion Lists for a while.

For the Standard Shield provider (on-access scanning):
Left click the ‘a’ blue icon, click on the provider icon at left and then Customize.
Go to Advanced tab and click on Add button…

For the other providers (on-demmand scanning):
Right click the ‘a’ blue icon, click Program Settings.
Go to Exclusions tab and click on Add button…

You can use wildcards like * and ?.
But be carefull, you should ‘exclude’ that many files that let your system in danger.

Either, on Troubleshooting tab of settings you can disable the messages over ‘full-screen’ applications.
Did you try do disable WebShield and see what you get?

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Well, all is now working after a reboot. :slight_smile: Thanks anyway.

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One thing you must learn, Windows sucks! :wink: Restarting is practically the cure for everything.