and know how to fix rather than circumvent it?
Yesterday I installed a game on my new win 10 machine. It was one of a series by the same indie developer. There are 9 games in the main series + one "side" game that is related. The latest two were created using a different game engine than the previous 8 games.
I had already installed 8 of the 10 games. The 10 came from 3 totally different locations - 3 were from the developer's site itself, 4 were from BigFishGames, 2 were from On Hand bundle disks and 1 from MyPlayCity.
I installed one from the developer. It had NO sound! I installed the one other not previously installed (from MyPlayCity) - NO sound. I tested one that I had already installed which had worked perfectly with sound earlier. It had no sound! At that point, only the two that had the newer game engine had sound - the other 8 games did not.
The first thing the developer did was send me links of the series so I could be sure to have "clean" copies of all 7 games (a step I do appreciate).
I worked all day long with the developer trying things. We tried uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling - partial success that later failed entirely. We tried admin mode - again partial success that later totally failed.
What finally worked was to play Windowed mode. Usually admin mode was needed to kick-start it but after that the authority wasn't needed. These are HOGs which normally don't work well windowed but, fortunately, the windows are large enough to actually work.
The developer said to avoid installing the one side-game from BigFish because he suspects their work with the game and their manager has corrupted things. I finally found that last game from GameTop so I got everybody back -- ALL but the side-game from the developer and that from GameTop.
What would cause ONE game to foul up 7 other games that weren't even running when it started. The developer is not aware of any feature of each one that would make it dependent upon the others for anything.
ONLY these 8 games were involved -- Nobody else's games changed and the latest two of his didn't change.
What happened? Does ANYBODY even understand what I'm describing? It makes no sense -- a game worked and because another game in the series failed, it failed and always that same way. The circumvention was to put it in windowed mode.
I'm still confused and I was the one fussing with it - for hours on end yesterday.
Any help at all?????
TIA
