I've been playing BatMud for a couple weeks now and it has been working fine. It was working earlier today in fact. Something made my router go haywire. The internet stopped working and what not. Now I have the internet back, but BatMud client won't work. This is the message from the console i get:

Java Web Start 1.6.0_05
Using JRE version 1.6.0_05 Java HotSpot™ Client VM
User home directory = C:\Documents and Settings\The Kemps
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c: clear console window
f: finalize objects on finalization queue
g: garbage collect
h: display this help message
m: print memory usage
o: trigger logging
p: reload proxy configuration
q: hide console
r: reload policy configuration
s: dump system and deployment properties
t: dump thread list
v: dump thread stack
0-5: set trace level to <n>
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#### Java Web Start Error:
#### Could not load file/URL specified: C:\Documents and Settings\The Kemps\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\34\4a2902e2-6896f2e9

This is the message from the exception tab:

CouldNotLoadArgumentException[ Could not load file/URL specified: C:\Documents and Settings\The Kemps\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\34\4a2902e2-6896f2e9]
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

This is the message from the wrapped exception tab:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Documents and Settings\The Kemps\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\34\4a2902e2-6896f2e9 (The system cannot find the file specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

If you have any info on what i could do, i'd be very grateful. I like BatMud and would like to continue playing. Thank you for your time.

I'm not exactly sure what has caused this, buy you could try a couple of things:

1) Control Panel-> Java -> (Temporary Internet Files) View -> "Show: Applications", select Batclient, press red X (delete). Then re-download Batclient again from the website http://www.bat.org/play/batclient/

if that doesn't help, you could try:

2) Delete your Batclient-directory, it should reside at C:\Documents and Settings\The Kemps\batclient (note that this removes all your game client window settings, macros, plugins, logs etc. so you might actually want to rename it if you have something you don't want to lose there..)

Then repeat 1).


Please tell if this helped!

well i didn't see your reply before i did this, but it works now. I reinstalled java and batclient. I worked, so i'm really not sure what happened. Something just freaked out somewhere i guess. Thanks for the reply though.

No problem, glad that you got it solved!

Just letting you know I had the exact same problem. Had to delete and re-download everything.