5 year old machine, sat untouched, trying to update firecontrol and failing

CrossFire ® PRO Troubleshooting
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My Crossfire Pro has sat for like 5 years, it was working I cut 3 things with it… then it sat. finally trying to get back into it. As I’m getting back into working sheet metal.(armor)

The first thing was running and updating Fire-control 2.5 to 2.6 was the first upgrade and it took some effort to get it to upgrade, as it kept saying there was an upgrade running already. After a sys update and a couple of reboots got it to work, but now fire-control starts up, showing the small center screen logo, then shuts down.

tried upgrading to the last of the 20 (20.6.2) versions and it’s doing the same thing.

I saved a copy of the fire control folder before the first update in case that’s useful.

where can I look for logs or info to figure out why it’s crashing?

this is my original laptop from 2020, so do I need to install the 2.1 version for older graphic cards? is that all there is to it?

Should I just delete fire-control folder and reinstall the latest from scratch, like it’s a first tine setup?

any help is greatly appreciated

i’m trying to get it up and working again. I assume i’ll need firmware updates when i get that far,

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You need to restart your computer, uninstall FireControl, then go to the root folder in either Program Files, or Program Files X86, and manually delete the FireControl Folder. Restart your computer again, then install the new updated FireControl.

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Follow everything that @Sticks said to do. I would install this 2.1 version (for older graphic cards) as it has been found to be more stable and you would not lose many features.

There have been some that report not being able to install the newest version successfully but after installing the more stable version then they were able to upgrade successfully.

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