# Game client keeps crashing/shutting down
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [April 11, 2014, 7:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809 "2014-04-11T07:46:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@saren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/saren)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 7:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/1 "2014-04-11T07:46:09Z")
All my saves play fine then whenever I try to play it just quits and goes to desktop, how do i fix this?
Playing stable version…
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### Author:  [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/2 "2014-04-11T10:06:03Z")
Version, OS?
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### Author:  [@saren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/saren)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/3 "2014-04-11T14:19:37Z")
0.A windows 7
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/4 "2014-04-12T06:59:19Z")
Stupid question, but you did actually unzip it before trying to play right?
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### Author:  [@saren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/saren)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/5 "2014-04-12T14:25:33Z")
yeah, I fixed it though by running .exe as admin
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### Author:  [@CIB](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/CIB)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/6 "2014-04-12T16:15:55Z")
> [@saren](#):
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> yeah, I fixed it though by running .exe as admin
That… shouldn’t be necessary. =/
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/7 "2014-04-12T19:22:27Z")
Where did you install the game? If you installed it in a location where it wouldn’t have write privileges then I could see it needing admin rights to run properly.
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### Author:  [@saren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/saren)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/8 "2014-04-13T17:04:10Z")
the homepage here
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/9 "2014-04-13T17:19:34Z")
I was referring more to the location on your computer. 😛 (Program files, Documents, Downloads, etc.)
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### Author:  [@saren](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/saren)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/10 "2014-04-13T17:29:35Z")
oh… downloads
before i reinstalled i was playing it on desktop
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/game-client-keeps-crashing-shutting-down/5809/11 "2014-04-13T17:32:12Z")
Strange, no clue why that would be happening then. Well at least you managed to figure out some way to get it to work, sorry we couldn’t help you find what was originally causing the problem!