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Question regarding a game not starting from BF
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02/28/15 02:58 PM
02/28/15 02:58 PM
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Winfrey
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I have just loaded Nancy Drew :Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake and have just sent a report to their customer service.. game not activating..just spins. Just wondering if any gamers with a window 8.1 might have had the same problem?
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody Gibran
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Re: Question regarding a game not starting from BF
[Re: Winfrey]
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02/28/15 04:30 PM
02/28/15 04:30 PM
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Jenny100
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game not activating..just spins. Make sure you don't have an antivirus or software firewall blocking the game's access to the Internet. You may also have to start the game by right-clicking the shortcut and choosing to "Run As Administrator" in order to get it to activate. The activation may be blocked by a feature on Windows 8 that restricts what programs can do when they aren't run as an "Administrator" -- and the game won't run if it can't activate. Also check their Windows 8 instructions (Ghost Dogs is one of the games listed) http://www.herinteractive.com/2014/05/windows-8-game-installation/Ghost Dogs was released in 2002, and according to their website http://www.herinteractive.com/shop-games/nancy-drew-ghost-dogs-of-moon-lake/it works with Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 -- they don't list 8/8.1 It may work in 8/8.1, but you may have to do a little more to get it running than you would have with 7 or earlier.
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Re: Question regarding a game not starting from BF
[Re: Winfrey]
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02/28/15 04:59 PM
02/28/15 04:59 PM
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Thanks, I've turned off fire wall and avast. Run ad admin. just shows activating on BF screen. the instructions are for a disc. I have reloaded.. maybe I need to move it out of program files
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody Gibran
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Re: Question regarding a game not starting from BF
[Re: Winfrey]
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02/28/15 05:14 PM
02/28/15 05:14 PM
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ok, I can not try anything else. Tried to download a demo to try and it goes into the 2nd position in my queue. I manually uninstalled as it kept saying it was open. I ran ccleaner. will try putting it in my C:\Games folder ... see if I can activate... I will also wait until tonight and try again. then wait for their response.
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody Gibran
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Re: Question regarding a game not starting from BF
[Re: Winfrey]
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02/28/15 07:51 PM
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I did some reloading.. put it into C:\games and made changes to the data execution Prevention file and it let me start the demo.... then I closed it down and it let me start the game..... phew!
Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody Gibran
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Re: Question regarding a game not starting from BF
[Re: Winfrey]
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03/01/15 12:20 AM
03/01/15 12:20 AM
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I've had issues with games not activating like you describe and had to start over.
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