Clearly, we are in full agreement on that. But any idea how to fix this situation? Thanks a ton for your help. Mike > On Sep 9, 2021, at 2:52 PM, john <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You're missing some form of a dependency. > > > >> On 9/9/2021 5:31, Michael wrote: >> Hey guys, I thought you might be able to make some sense from this error >> message I received from trying to play blast chamber on my windows 10 >> machine. >> >> --------------------------- >> Pipe 2.0 >> --------------------------- >> Component 'msoecmd32.dll' or one of its dependencies not correctly >> registered: a file is missing or invalid >> --------------------------- >> OK >> ---------------------------I was trying to run as administrator the same as >> normal, but out of nowhere I get this message. >> Anyone familiar with the above DLL file? This game used to run fine on this >> PC! >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> >> On Sep 8, 2021, at 8:25 AM, john <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> One of the most common questions I get is "how do I run BSC games"? >> >> Every single time, my answer is "it runs perfectly fine for me whenever I >> test it". >> >> I honestly do not know what's going on for folks and why these games are >> causing so much difficulty, as I have never once encountered any trouble, >> and the only way to fix a problem is to be able to reproduce it yourself. >> >> This topic keeps coming up - I keep running tests - and the games keep >> working just fine. >> >> If you're running them as a normal user, run them as admin. If you're >> running them as admin, try a normal user (yes, somehow this can actually >> work for some programs). If you installed them to the default location, put >> them in your documents folder instead. If you put them in documents, try >> using the defaults. If UAC is enabled, turn it off. If Defender is enabled, >> try pausing it. >> >> That list is all the general problem solving tricks that seem to generically >> work under Windows 10, regardless of what program we're talking about. Some >> of them are really fairly bad advice (disabling your antivirus is not a good >> idea) - but some old programs just can't handle modern systems. >> >> If none of the above works, my answer is "go buy a cheap windows Xp computer >> and just use that instead". >> >> >> >> >> >> On 9/8/2021 7:43, [email protected] wrote: >> John, >> >> I’m interested in what games you’ve got going on win 10. >> I used to love troopanum 2 and blast chamber, but gave up as it appeared >> that they didn’t work. >> You’ll make my day if you have any of these working. >> >> Thanks, >> >> David. >> >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of john >> Sent: 08 September 2021 01:46 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] BSC Games, win ten & dot net >> >> Unfortunately I'm unable to help you with the BSC issue: they've run fine on >> every system I've tested. Maybe try running them as administrator. >> >> It's nice to see another TOC player, though. >> >> >> >> On 9/7/2021 18:42, Sly wrote: >> Greetings Gamers! >> BSC Games and win ten? >> Any one got them running? >> I can get the register the game window up but the game will not launch >> , it just goes silent/closes. >> I was alerted to the dot net dependency by another gamer so wondered >> if any one else had any BSC title running and could verify >> what version of dot net you are running? I recall to run some older >> titles you needed certain dependencies to get the oldies to run like >> direct exe version 8 but I see no reference to dot net in the docs. >> I do have dot net on my system, it is version 4 point something but >> something from an older version my be necessary for whatever reason >> but who knows. Smiles! >> I also have the kitchen, GMA and draconis games running with no problems. >> >> >> Well Thanks for reading and Game On! Sly >> who is ten hours deep into a game of time of conflict. Smiles! >> >> >> >> >> > >
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