HI-

I have BF and I cannot get most of my games to download. It is NOT my computer, I just had it checked and cleaned by my tech, it is NOT my antivirus, I was able to download a couple with and without it. I am sending the message it gives when I try to download and my specs.

Message: bigfishgames_p12905364_s1_l1.exe already exists. Do you want to replace it?

If I say yes, it still will not download and go on my desktop.
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My Specs:
Wildows Vista Ultimate (6.0 Build 6002)

Bios Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2CPU

Memory 3070MB Ram

Page File: 1083MB used, 5269MB available

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

Approx. TotalMemory: 1574 MB

MainDriver: mvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2un

HdAudio.Sys
Version: 6.00.60021805(English)

I do not know what to do, I havee a message on BF in casual games, but little help. My firewall is not stopping games. No luck with BF, recieved one anser, waiting for another. This is my fifth day of dealing with this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

maggie

If the file's not going to your desktop, it's being saved somewhere else. The question is where.

Which browser are you using? Internet Explorer? Firefox? Something else?

Hi

Thanks for coming on. I have IE, the latest one.I have looked everywhere that I know and cannot find the games, not in download, I have some games there, but no others.

Thanks

maggie

Maggie, try doing a search for the file and see if that locates it.

Doing a basic search in Vista may not find the file. So go ahead and do a search, but if it doesn't find it, try an advanced search:

Hold down the windows key (the key on the left of the keyboard between ctrl and alt, labeled "start") and while holding it, press F to bring up the search window. Click the down arrow to the right of "Advanced Search" in the upper right to view the Advanced Search options.

In the drop-down box next to "Search in:" select "Local Hard Drives (C:[...])"

Put a check in the box which reads "Include non-indexed, hidden and system files"

In the Name box, paste in the filename: bigfishgames_p12905364_s1_l1.exe

Then click Search.

If that doesn't work, replace bigfishgames_p12905364_s1_l1.exe with bigfishgames*.exe and try again.

Good tip, Demosthenes. I tried it in my Win 7 and I didn't get it exactly like you described for Vista, but it did bring up more results than the basic search.

Something tells me your tech might have changed your default download location, Maggie. I'm thinking Vista's default download location is Documents, but I might be wrong.

HI Drac

I put bigfishgames in Search, when I turned on start. It is the only place I have search, Microsoft took it off when I downloaded SP3. I do not have run, it ran away I think . I found six games in the search and they went on fine, but did not find any of the others.Have any ideas? I only have the few I downloaded in Documents, can't find the others.

Thanks

maggie

Maggie, try Demosthene's suggestion for the advanced search. If they are on your computer, that should find them.

In Vista, Run was done away with in the Start screen, but it's still available.

Drac

What drop down, the only search I have is when at start and it says start search, no drop down???

maggie

Forget the Start Search.
Do what Demosthenes said and you will get a much more complete search.

Hi All-

I did find about 4 or 5 more, I will keep looking, I have a total of 15 on now. Thanks so much for everyone's help. I really appreciate.

maggie

You could download a program called Procmon.
http://sysinternals-procmon.software.informer.com/

If you run this it will display all file activity on your computer and will display full paths.
So if you run it then try to download your file again then the location that your browser is trying to save the file to will be displayed.

Hi mj2c

Could you explain that more, have never heard of it? Meant to tell you, out of the 15, I found, I have 25 I did not find.

thanks

maggie

If you download it and run it, it will open a window. Whenever any of your programs accesses a file it will be listed in its window. There is also filter on it so you can set it to only display, file accesses of particular programs, for example internet explorer.

There is a screenshot on here though you might have to magnify it

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Hm.

Come to think of it, Big Fish may be sidestepping browser downloads entirely. Are you using the Big Fish Game Manager to download the games?

[Edit] Meh. Tried it myself and the file downloaded the normal way. So we're back to trying to figure out where the browser's saving the file.