Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
A hearty "seconded!" from me. I hadn't read the initial post until now, but reformatting is not something that should be advocated unless there are absolutely no other options available, and IMO mentioning it in this circumstance does quite a bit more harm than good due to the loss of everything else on the machine. Please consider what it is you're actually recommending before you post something like that - the last thing somebody needs is to take your advice and lose all their valuable information. -- From: "Thomas Ward" Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2015 19:20 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Shaun, Honestly, can you please stop dispensing tech advice on this list. The reason being often your advice is overkill, doesn't address the specific problem the person has, and sometimes makes you look and sound like a fool at the same time. Reason being is Lori had a simple question about Swamp and Castaways that Aprone thankfully answered promptly. However, your advice was to get a serge protector and a UPS unit, which is good general advice, but has nothing to do with answering Lori's question. In the previous message before that you suggested maybe a reformat would work. That's just poor tech advice and if you do not have any other advice other than someone should "reformat their computer" it really says how clueless you really are. Point being as a moderator and a fairly technically minded person I'm putting you on notice if you continue to freely dispense poor and superfluous tech advice you pull out of your backside I'm strongly considering booting you from the list. Cheers! On 10/2/15, Shaun Everiss wrote: > Well I still recomend you get a searge box or 2 and at least one ups > unitt. > Also with electronics please stay away from the cheap 10 dollar chinese > boards they may have protection but they can blow at any time. > I was doodling round ages before I got the current power box though I > had the rest of the units, both were old ones dad was given at a course. > However I was working not backing up, and the entire system died thank > god I had a laptop. > shaking the board heard it rattle and it was dead. > The only thing you may have some issue and the need of sight for will be > the initial configuration of the ups system, I have a couple eatons and > they need updates and such its quite visual to install, uninstall and > configure the interfaces though thank god that its semi hit and miss. > once the interfaces are configured and things work then it is not a big > issue just leave them running and they in theory should work. > Though the notifications for both units do not previde access the tray > notifications do read with normal text messages. > Even if you don't plug the units in, they should just run fine. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Hi Devin, It is true that the language Aprone uses, VB 6, is getting a bit old and has some problems but that wasn't the root of Lori's problem. All that she had to do was delete an ini file and that solved her problem with Castaways. So, yeah, Shaun's advice was major overkill and in my opinion superfluous. He has a tendency to exaggerate and go to extremes when it comes to fixing small problems. I can not tell you how many times I have read posts similar to the one below where the problem was easy to solve but Sean's solution was reformat and reinstall everything from scratch plus one or two other pieces of technical advice that has nothing to do with the situation at hand he pulls out of his rear. On 10/3/15, Devin Prater wrote: > Wow, all that for a game. Useful, but not exactly for this situation. I've > heard that the language Aprone programs in is a bit old, and that causes > problems with newer systems. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 1, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Shaun Everiss wrote: >> >> Well yeah if you do have a powercut most likely you may have fried >> something. >> if things do not work maybe a good reformat will work. >> Seriously if you can afford it especially if you have a desktop get a >> ups. >> I have a couple. >> if you are a laptop user try to cycle your battery every couple months and >> buy an extra. >> To be honest, having a ups even though that cost me 70 bucks each has >> saved my ass many times. >> Another thing I'd get is a serge board that can fit 6 units in, and get as >> many as there are electronic devices in them. >> Yes they are 30 bucks or so, yes they cost but again they will save your >> ass and I can vouch for both bits of kit. >> Remember to change your ups battery every couple years or so and to have a >> spare just in case you forget else things will not work well for you. >> I had a cheap powerstrip bust on me all of a sudden once. >> and I have friends in lightning strike zones. >> If the power goes off, if the thing powers up it may be corrupted and we >> would reformat, works every time. >> However more than not, you wouldn't get anything and have to replace the >> power supply and ram chips or worse. >> This would probably be a good time to tell all well remind all to have >> good serge protection tech. >> An ups or 2 a serge box and a power board or 2 would be ideal. >> Failing that, at minimum, a serge board that allows 2 plugs for the power >> strips and or plugs with auto powercut offs for each unit. >> And if not, make sure you have 2 backup hdds at least and make sure one of >> them is always as updated as it can be and keep it offline maybe stored >> away but close enough for you to get it. >> --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Wow, all that for a game. Useful, but not exactly for this situation. I've heard that the language Aprone programs in is a bit old, and that causes problems with newer systems. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 1, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Shaun Everiss wrote: > > Well yeah if you do have a powercut most likely you may have fried something. > if things do not work maybe a good reformat will work. > Seriously if you can afford it especially if you have a desktop get a ups. > I have a couple. > if you are a laptop user try to cycle your battery every couple months and > buy an extra. > To be honest, having a ups even though that cost me 70 bucks each has saved > my ass many times. > Another thing I'd get is a serge board that can fit 6 units in, and get as > many as there are electronic devices in them. > Yes they are 30 bucks or so, yes they cost but again they will save your ass > and I can vouch for both bits of kit. > Remember to change your ups battery every couple years or so and to have a > spare just in case you forget else things will not work well for you. > I had a cheap powerstrip bust on me all of a sudden once. > and I have friends in lightning strike zones. > If the power goes off, if the thing powers up it may be corrupted and we > would reformat, works every time. > However more than not, you wouldn't get anything and have to replace the > power supply and ram chips or worse. > This would probably be a good time to tell all well remind all to have good > serge protection tech. > An ups or 2 a serge box and a power board or 2 would be ideal. > Failing that, at minimum, a serge board that allows 2 plugs for the power > strips and or plugs with auto powercut offs for each unit. > And if not, make sure you have 2 backup hdds at least and make sure one of > them is always as updated as it can be and keep it offline maybe stored away > but close enough for you to get it. > > > >> On 2/10/2015 2:44 a.m., john wrote: >> If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm >> presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss >> may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the >> trick. >> In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: >> press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. >> type: >> taskkill /f /im jfw.exe >> or >> taskkill /f /im nvda.exe >> and then reload the screen reader as normal. >> >> -- >> From: "loriduncan" >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me >> >> Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually >> wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game >> I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut >> down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that >> error. >> >> I'll give the installer another shot though. >>> From Lori. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: john >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM >> To: Gamers Discussion list >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me >> >> In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? >> Other possibilities: >> If you can, try castaways on another machine? >> Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; >> something may have been corrupted or missing. >> I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. >> >> >> -- >> From: "loriduncan" >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 >> To: >> Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me >> >> Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log >> into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, >> despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to >> load up castaways, but got the following error: >> --- >> Castaways >> --- >> Run-time error '52': >> >> Bad file name or number >> --- >> OK >> --- >> I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done >> anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not >> responding suddenly. >> I'
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Shaun, Honestly, can you please stop dispensing tech advice on this list. The reason being often your advice is overkill, doesn't address the specific problem the person has, and sometimes makes you look and sound like a fool at the same time. Reason being is Lori had a simple question about Swamp and Castaways that Aprone thankfully answered promptly. However, your advice was to get a serge protector and a UPS unit, which is good general advice, but has nothing to do with answering Lori's question. In the previous message before that you suggested maybe a reformat would work. That's just poor tech advice and if you do not have any other advice other than someone should "reformat their computer" it really says how clueless you really are. Point being as a moderator and a fairly technically minded person I'm putting you on notice if you continue to freely dispense poor and superfluous tech advice you pull out of your backside I'm strongly considering booting you from the list. Cheers! On 10/2/15, Shaun Everiss wrote: > Well I still recomend you get a searge box or 2 and at least one ups unitt. > Also with electronics please stay away from the cheap 10 dollar chinese > boards they may have protection but they can blow at any time. > I was doodling round ages before I got the current power box though I > had the rest of the units, both were old ones dad was given at a course. > However I was working not backing up, and the entire system died thank > god I had a laptop. > shaking the board heard it rattle and it was dead. > The only thing you may have some issue and the need of sight for will be > the initial configuration of the ups system, I have a couple eatons and > they need updates and such its quite visual to install, uninstall and > configure the interfaces though thank god that its semi hit and miss. > once the interfaces are configured and things work then it is not a big > issue just leave them running and they in theory should work. > Though the notifications for both units do not previde access the tray > notifications do read with normal text messages. > Even if you don't plug the units in, they should just run fine. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Thanks Sean, I'll certainlly think about it, though I've never used those units before. -Original Message- From: Shaun Everiss Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2015 4:31 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Well I still recomend you get a searge box or 2 and at least one ups unitt. Also with electronics please stay away from the cheap 10 dollar chinese boards they may have protection but they can blow at any time. I was doodling round ages before I got the current power box though I had the rest of the units, both were old ones dad was given at a course. However I was working not backing up, and the entire system died thank god I had a laptop. shaking the board heard it rattle and it was dead. The only thing you may have some issue and the need of sight for will be the initial configuration of the ups system, I have a couple eatons and they need updates and such its quite visual to install, uninstall and configure the interfaces though thank god that its semi hit and miss. once the interfaces are configured and things work then it is not a big issue just leave them running and they in theory should work. Though the notifications for both units do not previde access the tray notifications do read with normal text messages. Even if you don't plug the units in, they should just run fine. On 2/10/2015 6:37 p.m., loriduncan wrote: Hi thanks Sean, but I have both games working now, deleting the progress.ini file worked a treat, and Aprone has fixed the problem I was having with my Swamp account. Yaye Aprone! :) -Original Message- From: Shaun Everiss Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 3:34 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Well yeah if you do have a powercut most likely you may have fried something. if things do not work maybe a good reformat will work. Seriously if you can afford it especially if you have a desktop get a ups. I have a couple. if you are a laptop user try to cycle your battery every couple months and buy an extra. To be honest, having a ups even though that cost me 70 bucks each has saved my ass many times. Another thing I'd get is a serge board that can fit 6 units in, and get as many as there are electronic devices in them. Yes they are 30 bucks or so, yes they cost but again they will save your ass and I can vouch for both bits of kit. Remember to change your ups battery every couple years or so and to have a spare just in case you forget else things will not work well for you. I had a cheap powerstrip bust on me all of a sudden once. and I have friends in lightning strike zones. If the power goes off, if the thing powers up it may be corrupted and we would reformat, works every time. However more than not, you wouldn't get anything and have to replace the power supply and ram chips or worse. This would probably be a good time to tell all well remind all to have good serge protection tech. An ups or 2 a serge box and a power board or 2 would be ideal. Failing that, at minimum, a serge board that allows 2 plugs for the power strips and or plugs with auto powercut offs for each unit. And if not, make sure you have 2 backup hdds at least and make sure one of them is always as updated as it can be and keep it offline maybe stored away but close enough for you to get it. On 2/10/2015 2:44 a.m., john wrote: If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the trick. In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. type: taskkill /f /im jfw.exe or taskkill /f /im nvda.exe and then reload the screen reader as normal. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. ------ From: "loriduncan&quo
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Well I still recomend you get a searge box or 2 and at least one ups unitt. Also with electronics please stay away from the cheap 10 dollar chinese boards they may have protection but they can blow at any time. I was doodling round ages before I got the current power box though I had the rest of the units, both were old ones dad was given at a course. However I was working not backing up, and the entire system died thank god I had a laptop. shaking the board heard it rattle and it was dead. The only thing you may have some issue and the need of sight for will be the initial configuration of the ups system, I have a couple eatons and they need updates and such its quite visual to install, uninstall and configure the interfaces though thank god that its semi hit and miss. once the interfaces are configured and things work then it is not a big issue just leave them running and they in theory should work. Though the notifications for both units do not previde access the tray notifications do read with normal text messages. Even if you don't plug the units in, they should just run fine. On 2/10/2015 6:37 p.m., loriduncan wrote: Hi thanks Sean, but I have both games working now, deleting the progress.ini file worked a treat, and Aprone has fixed the problem I was having with my Swamp account. Yaye Aprone! :) -Original Message- From: Shaun Everiss Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 3:34 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Well yeah if you do have a powercut most likely you may have fried something. if things do not work maybe a good reformat will work. Seriously if you can afford it especially if you have a desktop get a ups. I have a couple. if you are a laptop user try to cycle your battery every couple months and buy an extra. To be honest, having a ups even though that cost me 70 bucks each has saved my ass many times. Another thing I'd get is a serge board that can fit 6 units in, and get as many as there are electronic devices in them. Yes they are 30 bucks or so, yes they cost but again they will save your ass and I can vouch for both bits of kit. Remember to change your ups battery every couple years or so and to have a spare just in case you forget else things will not work well for you. I had a cheap powerstrip bust on me all of a sudden once. and I have friends in lightning strike zones. If the power goes off, if the thing powers up it may be corrupted and we would reformat, works every time. However more than not, you wouldn't get anything and have to replace the power supply and ram chips or worse. This would probably be a good time to tell all well remind all to have good serge protection tech. An ups or 2 a serge box and a power board or 2 would be ideal. Failing that, at minimum, a serge board that allows 2 plugs for the power strips and or plugs with auto powercut offs for each unit. And if not, make sure you have 2 backup hdds at least and make sure one of them is always as updated as it can be and keep it offline maybe stored away but close enough for you to get it. On 2/10/2015 2:44 a.m., john wrote: If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the trick. In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. type: taskkill /f /im jfw.exe or taskkill /f /im nvda.exe and then reload the screen reader as normal. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the f
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Hi thanks Sean, but I have both games working now, deleting the progress.ini file worked a treat, and Aprone has fixed the problem I was having with my Swamp account. Yaye Aprone! :) -Original Message- From: Shaun Everiss Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 3:34 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Well yeah if you do have a powercut most likely you may have fried something. if things do not work maybe a good reformat will work. Seriously if you can afford it especially if you have a desktop get a ups. I have a couple. if you are a laptop user try to cycle your battery every couple months and buy an extra. To be honest, having a ups even though that cost me 70 bucks each has saved my ass many times. Another thing I'd get is a serge board that can fit 6 units in, and get as many as there are electronic devices in them. Yes they are 30 bucks or so, yes they cost but again they will save your ass and I can vouch for both bits of kit. Remember to change your ups battery every couple years or so and to have a spare just in case you forget else things will not work well for you. I had a cheap powerstrip bust on me all of a sudden once. and I have friends in lightning strike zones. If the power goes off, if the thing powers up it may be corrupted and we would reformat, works every time. However more than not, you wouldn't get anything and have to replace the power supply and ram chips or worse. This would probably be a good time to tell all well remind all to have good serge protection tech. An ups or 2 a serge box and a power board or 2 would be ideal. Failing that, at minimum, a serge board that allows 2 plugs for the power strips and or plugs with auto powercut offs for each unit. And if not, make sure you have 2 backup hdds at least and make sure one of them is always as updated as it can be and keep it offline maybe stored away but close enough for you to get it. On 2/10/2015 2:44 a.m., john wrote: If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the trick. In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. type: taskkill /f /im jfw.exe or taskkill /f /im nvda.exe and then reload the screen reader as normal. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the lis
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Well yeah if you do have a powercut most likely you may have fried something. if things do not work maybe a good reformat will work. Seriously if you can afford it especially if you have a desktop get a ups. I have a couple. if you are a laptop user try to cycle your battery every couple months and buy an extra. To be honest, having a ups even though that cost me 70 bucks each has saved my ass many times. Another thing I'd get is a serge board that can fit 6 units in, and get as many as there are electronic devices in them. Yes they are 30 bucks or so, yes they cost but again they will save your ass and I can vouch for both bits of kit. Remember to change your ups battery every couple years or so and to have a spare just in case you forget else things will not work well for you. I had a cheap powerstrip bust on me all of a sudden once. and I have friends in lightning strike zones. If the power goes off, if the thing powers up it may be corrupted and we would reformat, works every time. However more than not, you wouldn't get anything and have to replace the power supply and ram chips or worse. This would probably be a good time to tell all well remind all to have good serge protection tech. An ups or 2 a serge box and a power board or 2 would be ideal. Failing that, at minimum, a serge board that allows 2 plugs for the power strips and or plugs with auto powercut offs for each unit. And if not, make sure you have 2 backup hdds at least and make sure one of them is always as updated as it can be and keep it offline maybe stored away but close enough for you to get it. On 2/10/2015 2:44 a.m., john wrote: If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the trick. In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. type: taskkill /f /im jfw.exe or taskkill /f /im nvda.exe and then reload the screen reader as normal. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of th
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Ah ok Aprone, thanks, I didn't realise what the progress.ini file was, I thought it was just a text document with all my game turns and a note of what happened in game. Thanks from Lori. -Original Message- From: jer...@kaldobsky.com Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 6:18 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Lori, delete the file progress.ini in your Castaways folder. I do believe John was correct that the power cut corrupted files, and the progress.ini file is the one file that wouldn't be replaced when you reinstalled Castaways. - Aprone From: john To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2015 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Try extracting the archive to a completely different folder, and start with nothing but the default settings. If you use your current folder, some files will remain from the old version, and may be part of your problem. Can you run any of Aprone's other games? Run in this case means load without an error, not necessarily play. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Lori, delete the file progress.ini in your Castaways folder. I do believe John was correct that the power cut corrupted files, and the progress.ini file is the one file that wouldn't be replaced when you reinstalled Castaways. - Aprone From: john To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2015 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Try extracting the archive to a completely different folder, and start with nothing but the default settings. If you use your current folder, some files will remain from the old version, and may be part of your problem. Can you run any of Aprone's other games? Run in this case means load without an error, not necessarily play. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Try extracting the archive to a completely different folder, and start with nothing but the default settings. If you use your current folder, some files will remain from the old version, and may be part of your problem. Can you run any of Aprone's other games? Run in this case means load without an error, not necessarily play. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 10:09 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi I've tried re-installing castaways, but with no luck, I'm still getting that error even with the files being replaced. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 2:44 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the trick. In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. type: taskkill /f /im jfw.exe or taskkill /f /im nvda.exe and then reload the screen reader as normal. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. >From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. ---------- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived an
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Hi I've tried re-installing castaways, but with no luck, I'm still getting that error even with the files being replaced. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 2:44 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the trick. In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. type: taskkill /f /im jfw.exe or taskkill /f /im nvda.exe and then reload the screen reader as normal. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.co
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the trick. In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. type: taskkill /f /im jfw.exe or taskkill /f /im nvda.exe and then reload the screen reader as normal. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. >From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that error. I'll give the installer another shot though. From Lori. -Original Message- From: john Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me
In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? Other possibilities: If you can, try castaways on another machine? Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; something may have been corrupted or missing. I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. -- From: "loriduncan" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 To: Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] games turning against me
Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to load up castaways, but got the following error: --- Castaways --- Run-time error '52': Bad file name or number --- OK --- I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not responding suddenly. I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any help. Thanks from Lori. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
