Vista With Battleships Forever.

Profanwolf · Post by **Profanwolf** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:01 am

The second i installed battleships forever again, after playing a older version before on XP. Now that i have vista it won't even launch. Some claimed it was due to hibernation so i restarted my pc, no dice. It just gives me that Battleships forever has stopped working message and the choice to send a error message or not, After i press close program battleships forever gives me a box saying.
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Battleshipsforever
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Failed to load the game data. File seems corrupted.
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OK
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Help!

BizzarreCoyote · Post by **BizzarreCoyote** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:34 am

Try re-installing it.

Also, if that doesn't work, try running it as an administrator, or in compatibility mode.

Profanwolf · Post by **Profanwolf** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:40 am

I did all of that, I have reinstalled it countless times. Restarted my pc, ran it in all compatability modes. Deleted the 2 sound .dlls. NOTHING WORKS!

Profanwolf · Post by **Profanwolf** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:08 am

I NEED SOME FUCKING HELP THIS IS DRIVING ME MAD

Swamp Fox · Post by **Swamp Fox** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:11 am

Dude, chill out. It's been 30 minutes. Do you know how many people check the forums in 30 minutes? Well, neither do I, but it's usually not very many. That said, have you tried running it out of the folder, or have you only used the installer?

Profanwolf · Post by **Profanwolf** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:11 am

I have tried running it out of the folder.

SHAD0Wdump · Post by **SHAD0Wdump** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:45 am

If it is in program files try installing it directly to the C: drive,I never trust program files.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:57 pm

You said you've installed it many times but if the file is corrupted that wouldn't help...Have you tried re-downloading it from the mirror or in primary/zip form, whichever you didn't do the first time?

Also bsf seems to run funky on vista regardless, so is there any way for you to partition your drive and install xp to play it? No idea if problems with vista are serious enough to warrant that but I've heard nothing good.

Profanwolf · Post by **Profanwolf** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:13 pm

I could do that, but i don't have a xp to install. I would if i had it.

Post by **Arcalane** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:39 pm

Make sure UAC (User Account Control) is turned off too. I hear that causes problems.

Profanwolf · Post by **Profanwolf** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:26 pm

I just installed XP on another partition. Now i get this error. Help me!

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ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: Game Start
for object GUI_MainTitle:

Failed to initialize BGM - Invalid device number.

MelvinVm · Post by **MelvinVm** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:08 am

What vista you got? my vista home premium runs it fine.

Swamp Fox · Post by **Swamp Fox** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:25 am

It shouldn't actually matter. I personally have run it on 32 and 64 bit Ultimate, and have seen it run numerous times under Home Premium, Basic, and Business. BSF really is a very adaptable program that runs just about everywhere, except for a few choice systems for little apparent reason. Hell, I've been using it since XP and couldn't break it until I tried.

Out of curiosity, could there be a hardware issue? I haven't really looked at GM's compatibility enough to know, just thought I'd ask.

Profanwolf · Post by **Profanwolf** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:30 am

It works for no reason at all.

VNilla · Post by **VNilla** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:36 am

Make sure you try it a few more times to make sure that it continues to work.

And BTW, did you change something to make it work or did it just happen randomly? I might be getting a new Vista machine that I will want to run BSF on, so I want suggestions for what to do if it doesn't work the first time.