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TeenagentInstalling causes 'Games' Window to crash in Vista(22 posts)solved(22 posts)solved
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Posted March 31, 2009
This is a weird problem:
Upon installing this game in Windows Vista whenever I try to open the "Games" folder it automatically closes. Next time i installed the game with the "Games" window open and as soon as it had finished all my previous game icons in the window dissapeared. I can't install this game now because I lose access to my "Games" folder. Anyone else run into this problem and know a fix?
Thanks
Brad
This question / problem has been solved by Grahimage
Posted April 03, 2009
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Aliasalpha: [..]go through the folders and manually delete the non-GOG one [..]
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Grah: Problem is that it will not help :) Next time you'll start Far Cry Vista finds out about it and recreate shortcut in Games folder. Only way to avoid creating it back it to hide existing one, in that way Vista will know that the game exists but you don't want the shortcut.

hmm cunning... you win this round vista
Posted April 04, 2009
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Grah: Problem is that it will not help :) Next time you'll start Far Cry Vista finds out about it and recreate shortcut in Games folder. Only way to avoid creating it back it to hide existing one, in that way Vista will know that the game exists but you don't want the shortcut.
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Aliasalpha: hmm cunning... you win this round vista

Try right-clicking the icon in Game Explorer and chose "hide this game" (or whatever the exact wording is, VGE won't work for me at the moment for a totally different reason, so I can't check), that's what I've done for a few non-GOG duplicates of GOG games and expansion packs that actually uses the exact same path and switches as the original game (Neverwinter Nights, Diablo II, and probably some others), and they don't reappear.
Post edited April 04, 2009 by Miaghstir
Posted April 21, 2009
hopefully doing the regedit thing will help, but out of curiosity, are the crashing(s) on 64 bit or 32 bit?
Posted May 01, 2009
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Ricochet_Saw: hopefully doing the regedit thing will help, but out of curiosity, are the crashing(s) on 64 bit or 32 bit?

Is the game even supported on 64 bit? That's news to me, as I thought that old 16 bit apps weren't compatible with 64 bit.
Posted May 10, 2009
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Ricochet_Saw: hopefully doing the regedit thing will help, but out of curiosity, are the crashing(s) on 64 bit or 32 bit?
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ShmenonPie: Is the game even supported on 64 bit? That's news to me, as I thought that old 16 bit apps weren't compatible with 64 bit.

not true they wouldn't be able to say that all games are supported on vista because vista in general will not support 16 bit apps... in fact vista cant even run 16 bit apps, so for them to say that would be a downright lie. as for giving support for 64 bit OS, vista and XP both have versions... so they should at least give customer support.
Posted May 10, 2009
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ShmenonPie: Is the game even supported on 64 bit? That's news to me, as I thought that old 16 bit apps weren't compatible with 64 bit.
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Ricochet_Saw: not true they wouldn't be able to say that all games are supported on vista because vista in general will not support 16 bit apps... in fact vista cant even run 16 bit apps, so for them to say that would be a downright lie. as for giving support for 64 bit OS, vista and XP both have versions... so they should at least give customer support.

It is true that an x86-64 CPU cannot switch to 16-bit mode when running a 64-bit operating system.
The GOG version of Teenagent however runs inside an emulator called Dosbox. Dosbox is a 32-bit application, so there should be no 16-bit related issues.
Post edited May 10, 2009 by tor
Posted May 11, 2009
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Ricochet_Saw: not true they wouldn't be able to say that all games are supported on vista because vista in general will not support 16 bit apps... in fact vista cant even run 16 bit apps, so for them to say that would be a downright lie. as for giving support for 64 bit OS, vista and XP both have versions... so they should at least give customer support.
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tor: It is true that an x86-64 CPU cannot switch to 16-bit mode when running a 64-bit operating system.
The GOG version of Teenagent however runs inside an emulator called Dosbox. Dosbox is a 32-bit application, so there should be no 16-bit related issues.

Fair do's. Oh, DoxBox, how I love you...
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