Error launching EA

[Chris Perrin]

Hi All,

When I launch EA I get the following error:

"Error creating XML Parser"

Can anyone help with this one? (Version 7.1 Build 832)

Many thanks, Chris

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Does it stop EA launching?   I've occasionally received it when shutting down EA - I suspect it's because I had multiple copies open and shutting down (at the same time).  Since it wasn't fatal, I just put it down to EAUI.

HTH,
Paolo

[Aaron B]

What Operating System (and Service Pack) are you running?

This error sometimes indicates that you might need to re-register the msxml dll's on your system.

Try running each of the following commands from the "Run" command under the Windows Start menu:
  regsvr32 msxml3.dll
  regsvr32 msxml4.dll
 
Another possibility is to install MSXML 4.0 SP2 from the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3144b72b-b4f2-46da-b4b6-c5d7485f2b42

HTH.

[Chris Perrin]

Paolo: Yes it stops EA from launching.

Aaron: Running Windows XP 2002 Professional SP3

Will try re-registering as per your suggestion and get back to you.

thank you both for your help...

Chris.

[Chris Perrin]

I could re-register msxml3.dll however got the following error from RegSvr32 for msxml4.dll"

LoadLibrary("msxml4.dll") failed - a dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.