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Barok · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:00 am Post subject: About SoC 3...

hey, does anyone know how to run it? i downloaded the demo eagerly, but to my disappointment, it will not run. it sez "Please wait..."

then it says "Bad command or file name"

anyways, anyone know how to solve this?
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Ninkazu · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 4:26 am Post subject:

Well, since I'm in XP and don't really feel like switching over to test it.. I'm guessing that some music isn't there for some reason, or DS4QB2 isn't there, or something of the like. I'm downloading it right now to see what the problem is *installs, checks* Hmmmm. I'm gonna switch to test it out. I'll edit this in a bit.

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It loads fine and runs... Are you waiting for DS4QB2 to start up and everything?

DarkDread · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 5:39 pm Post subject:

Did you also download and install the visual basic 6 runtime dll? ...you can get it in http://de.tekscode.com/files ...and put it in your win/system or winnt/system directory... then run.
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barok@school · Guest

thnx Darkdread. I'll try it as soon as i get home. really looking forward to it!

Barok · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 4:28 am Post subject:

k... is this it? msvbvm60.zip

how do you install it? i dunno how to put in the directory...

lol... i'm so helpless.... :D
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Ninkazu · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 4:30 am Post subject:

Just run the damn thing, man! I don't remember what it does, but if it extracts to a random folder, move it to windows\system.

Barok · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 4:47 am Post subject:

k. got it to windows/system, but now what?
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Bjorn · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

Maybe try running the SoC3 executable? Just repeating what DarkDread said...

DarkDread · Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject:

Yep, what Bjørn said, what I said. :)
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Barok · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:33 am Post subject:

argh... :( nope... didn't work. i think i'll try running it on the ol' pentium 1. heh... at least it'll run at least 90 percent of the programs i download. i doubt our newer comp runs 70%. must be windows xp. Down with microsoft! >:(

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DarkDread · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 5:18 am Post subject:

Indeed, WinXP probably doesn't like the sound engine. Alas, I never made a no-sound version of that demo. Just try running it on a machine with win98, and it should work fine. Make sure you put the visual basic 6 runtime in the windows/system directory on that machine as well, of course.
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Mattrunks · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 2:28 am Post subject:

Not completely sure, but I think you have to extract it to the SoC 3 Folder itself.

DarkDread · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 3:11 am Post subject:

the dll? ...no, it has to be in the windows system directory.
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[Neodog] Solar · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 6:14 pm Post subject:

Or... system32, of course
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barok@school · Guest

here's yet another reason to have microsoft. it turns out with past windows, microsoft was rumoured to make it so that microsoft programs have a huge edge on windows when compared to other programs. Maybe for windows XP they went a step further.... i've gotta take a closer look at that mag to find out all the details.