Hi!

I've made many changes since my last request, and I tried to implement
almost everything that some of you advices to me. Please "spank" my game again and tell if there is something wrong with it and we need to add something.

Game page:
http://www.emotionrays.com/fillers.php4

Download link:
http://www.emotionrays.com/soft/fillers.exe (3.3 MB)

Best Regards,
Kostya

Sorry, still no go on my Win2K machine. As soon as I launch it, the screen goes black for about a half second, then I see my desktop but in the wrong resolution and I can hear something that sounds like static looping repeated every 1/4 second. It just sits there doing that until I end task.

Hi!

LordKronos, please, download the game again - I recompile it and remove some bugs. Perhaps it works now. If you don't want to download a whole game, then you can download only main exe file and copy it to the folder with the game:

http://www.emotionrays.com/soft/Fillers3D.exe

There are about 80 views, and I guess, about 30-40 downloads. I would appreciate any comments / ideas about this game.

Best regards,
Kostya

I have exactly the same problem as Ron. Half second of black screen, desktop at wrong resolution and 1/4 sample loóp. And I tried the newest download link.

One good thing would be to add a log file that dumped information about the run. Then you had some chances of nailing this bug.

Hi!

Please try to download exe file again - I've change it. If this won't help, then give me the following info:

1. Full computer decription (esp. video and processor);
2. What video resolution you usually use?

Well, kosty. It is obvious that you created this game on win98. Because I can run it on win98se but not on win2ksp2, of course on the same machine. I have tried that with the very first release. So my advice is you should install a win2k or winxp partition on one of computer and try out once in a while after compiling the code.

Hi!

Actually, I compile and play this game on Windows XP Professional, both SP1 and without it. Other members of our group plays it on Windows 2000 Professional SP2. My good friend played this game on Windows 2k SP2 and then Windows XP Pro.

Some users of Windows 98 SE report problem when they try to start this game, because this windows do not install oleacc32.dll sometimes.

It is strange for me right now that people have troubles with this game on Windows 2k/XP, because it was heavily tested on these versions of Windows. I do not mean, that their windowses are bad (sorry, but my English isn't very good :) ), but I mean that I have no idea why they have such troubles. As I understand, log file wouldn't be useful, because graphic and sound systems initialized well, and the error is somewhere in the program.

This game was tested on Celeron, Pentium II and Athlon. Perhaps, it has some problems under Pentium III or Pentium IV, because I don't have such computers to test this game on them.

I would very appreciate if someone would be able to work with me on this bug. I mean that I will put few exe files online, and someone test them on his machine and tells me if something wrong. I will give a keyfile for free for this :)

Actually, this game is our first product, and we put a lot of money to make it as it is. I hope when it works good on most computer, then we will be able to back these money. We also have few other games in development right now, and we thought to close this project, but Steve's message about "amateurs" and "professionals" forces us to work on this project again :D (Thanks, Steve!)

Well, then I am just clueless. I have a coppermine celeron with geforce2. All with the original asus drivers.

I've tried the demo on three computers that run WinXP SP1.

1.
P4 1500 with a radeon 8500le and a Geforce2 GTS

2.
A cheap compaq with a P3, 64mb of memory
and integrated 3D graphics.

4.
A P2 450 mhz with a 16mb TNT vid card

in all cases the demo worked. I didn't notice any bugs.

Hi!

Well, I guess it can be sound card bug - the game may not work properly with some kind of sound cards. This is the only idea I get.

This game also writes to registry. Is it possible, that WinXP and Win2k doesn't allow it to write to registry entry? If so, then which registry keys are available for write in user mode? (I write in HKEY_CURRENT_MACHINE).

Well, there are the only ideas that I have right now :(

Kosty,

I suggest you to modify your configuration system to make it write to HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead. This is very important as many users work under restricted rights on Windows NT/2000/XP.

Users often download a game at work to see the demo. Then they decide whether it is good to buy and play it at home. And good enterprises often have very strict policy regarding users rights. Even under default security settings simple User account has no rights to modify %SystemRoot% and %SystemRoot%\System32. The same applies to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry branch.

On the other hand many advanced users prefer to work under an account with restricted rights to fight against trojans and viruses (though this is a tedious task because many applications require additional actions to install properly, and yes, many games fail to install or run).

The conclusion is simple. Your game won't launch on these systems. So make your best to fix it. And testing your installation/game under different security settings (that are expected on your customers systems) is a good habit to have anyway.

I enjoyed the first version, but when I try to download this one, I just get a russian webpage...

I forgot to post a followup. I tried downloading the new exe right after you posted to try it. It didn't help...in fact, it seemed even worse, in that it somehow screwed up windows and I had to reboot. I deleted everything and downloaded the whole installer again and it was back to simply not working again (but no longer messing up my machine).

I don't have any security restrictions on my machine. (everything runs as administrator) so that isn't the problem. As for my machine specs, I posted them in detail in the previous "spank my game" thread. If you want me to elaborate on any of those details, I will. If you wan't me to do some more testing with different exes, I can help you.