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Post by samboni on Dec 11, 2014 17:47:49 GMT
Decided to post here since it seems to be the only IC community that's still alive... (Which is great!)
I installed the game from ISOs of the discs on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop, but it refuses to run. The closest I have managed to get is that when the black screen comes up from it attempting to run, there is a brief moment that the IC cursor is in the middle of the screen, but soon after that appears, it goes back to black, then the program crashes, showing the "IC.exe has stopped working" window. I have not yet tried installing from the "full linstaller" provided on these forums, simply because of the fact that PirateBay is down right now. I looked at the log named after today's date and the best I could figure out from that is that it it having trouble on debug.dll. It knows it's there, when I pulled it out of the folder it didn't even go to a black screen, just complained about the file not being there. If needed, I can post either log file. To be honest, I'm not THAT worried about whether I can update or get mods to work, because the multiplayer in this game was never really for me. I have always preferred single-player in almost all games and was just planning on playing through the campaign.
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Post by Sawslig Steve. And William. on Dec 11, 2014 23:35:01 GMT
PirateBay's been back up for a while, just under a slightly different URL (but it changes all the time): thepiratebay.cr/Posting your log might be helpful, yeah. I don't Really think it'll help but in the meantime, you should try running as admin if you haven't. Can you run other games on your laptop without issue? |
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Post by samboni on Dec 11, 2014 23:47:04 GMT
Ah, I'll try that full installer then. Annoying how often PirateBay changes their link... But anyway yes I tried admin (the cursor didn't even appear when I did) and the only other game that has issue that I've found is Black and White. I would attach the logs, but I stupidly deleted them and for some reason it isn't making a new log now... Very strange... I imagine a bit of info that might help though that I just realized I left out is that I am running 1.0 because of the updater not working. I'll download and try the full installer though and let you know how that goes.
EDIT: Also, is there any way I could do windowed mode? I was hoping to stream the campaign on Twitch when I replayed it, but that's kinda tricky to do without a windowed mode.
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Post by Sawslig Steve. And William. on Dec 12, 2014 1:14:23 GMT
Right click your shortcut, click properties, and add "-window" to the end of the target line. Example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Impossible Creatures\IC.exe" -window What's your problem with the patcher? Chances are that's easily fixable. Also, if PirateBay's still giving you trouble, the installer can also be found on KickassTorrents: kickass.so/impossible-creatures-full-install-t7831311.htmlAnd can you recover the logs from your recycle bin? |
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Post by samboni on Dec 12, 2014 1:35:17 GMT
The windowed mode trick worked, so thanks for that. Although using it showed a little more, a small window came up after I added "-window" which said "Gathering Exception Data, please"
The patcher is actually for 1.0.1 it seems, and it says that "A program required for this install to complete could not be run"
I have started the torrent download, thanks for the KAT link. I generally prefer KAT over TPB anyway. I'll go ahead and just install from there and get back to you about it tomorrow, I've got to leave for a little while.
And last of all, I turned off the Recycle Bin a couple years ago, and forgot how I removed it, although I'm not too concerned about it, I rarely have a use for it anyway.
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Post by Sawslig Steve. And William. on Dec 12, 2014 5:07:39 GMT
Well, good luck. Hope the installer works for you. The error you're getting sounds like your current install is corrupt.
By the way, it's perfectly normal for the installer to freeze and/or appear to have crashed at around 30%. Just let it do its thing.
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Post by samboni on Dec 12, 2014 17:01:23 GMT
The full installer found here worked perfectly, thanks! And for me, the installer froze around 36%.
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Post by Sawslig Steve. And William. on Dec 13, 2014 0:21:54 GMT
Awesome! Glad it worked. I imagine you're having issues with the text in 1.1 ("IC" in mod selection) though, right? To fix that, navigate to Impossible Creatures\locale\english\IC and delete the file named "modtext.dat" I know you said you don't care for multiplayer, but if you ever happen to change your mind, you'll want this update: copy.com/ykVWVTUpBkYjWiYvYou'll also want to add the user "puglinic" on Skype to be added to the IC group. |
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Post by samboni on Dec 13, 2014 0:36:01 GMT
OK, I hadn't messed with the game much yet so I didn't know if the text had any issue, but I went ahead and deleted that file.
And in case I decide to do multiplayer, I went ahead and installed the patch. If I end up wanting to play, I'll let you know.
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