Hopefully it helps others. I fixed my ASKA initiation error.

Do these things.



1. Adjust your sound quality rate down to lowest. (for now. you can test higher ones later.)



2. Go to game folder and install DX from it.



3. Go to game folder and select in the exe's properties to run the game in windows 7 compatibility mode.



4. This is where I started getting memory problems. It wants you to have a large enough pagefile for some reason. I turned mine on and gave it 4-6 GB of space.



Edit: PLEASE verify that your pagefile has 4 to 6GB of space allocated to it, and NOT set to auto. I have had this work for multiple people now in other threads, and am adding this edit here to put double emphasis on it.



5. It can be tricky to find, but in windows there is a setting for Legacy components. Go there under your control panels Program or Apps section, and when you find it, check the box for Directplay. ~~ "legacy is under "Turn Windows Features On or Off"." Caradia (Thanks Caradia. I couldn't remember where I found it lol.)



I can now play Star Ocean and I hope you can now too.



Enjoy. If this doesn't work for you, sorry. Hope you find what fixes your problem soon. please don't bite my head off for trying to help.



Edit- Marine Ops Specialist found another thing that might help



"i just found another bug, if you are using windows 7 the game will crash with the aska initialization error if you are NOT running an aero theme, so if you have aero disabled the game will not start at all"



Edit: Archiver213 has shared with us this tip. "On x64 OS you have to install BOTH x86 & x64 redists. Without doing so, MIGHT be the issue why it doesnt run. Tested this on bud's system who does have this on his PC, but never got it running like everyone else. After installing all redists ( already has DX installed from other games ) the game launched without issue."



Edit: Seems Special K has been causing some people some issues as well with fps. If you are running Special K for other games and notice an FPS problem in your game, disable/remove special K and try again.



Edit: IF you are reading this, and haven't got the game running yet, and HAVE actually tried to set the pagefile to 4 o 6GB and STILL are having problems, Please message below. I will see if I can help you out at all. If you haven't done the Pagefile thing yet, shame on you for not following instructions and go back and try again. (Seriously. This has worked for many people, if it's not your problem, then you might have more serious issues at hand. Pebkac kind of issues.)

