Adventuress,
Do you see the game.exe on the hard drive after installing the game? The problem with AVG was that it was deleting the game.exe.
If the game.exe is there, and since it is installing on your computer and not coming up with an error during the install, it doesn't sound like you have a bad disc. If your video card meets the requirements of the game and its acceleration is turned up, the only other thing I can think of is that your computer is having a problem with the SecuROM. Do you have another CD or DVD drive you can try the game from?

Adventuress, If you are seeing the game.exe file, reboot your computer to be sure it is still there. Did you move the file out of the virus vault?

When I was dealing with this, I checked and the exe file was there, but upon rebooting it wasn't.

I just copied that file to the correct bin file and now the game runs just fine for me

Hi all
I am trying to paste a screen shot of my bin folder off the DVD to see if it is the same as everyone else's. How do I paste the screenshot in here?
There are 11 items in the bin folder, one of which is a white box that says 'game' which I am assuming is the .exe file?

thanks for your help.

HI there
My NOD32 antivirus does not have a visible 'vault' so I cannot check if it is in there.
The game does the same thing on my laptop...installs, but won't start.

Where are the settings for my video card?

Thanks

Adventuress, I have 11 files in my bin.

We are having connection issues--I'll list them when I get back on

The Gameboomers forum doesn't have that capability.
But you can upload the screenshot to some place like photobucket.com and then give the URL to the screenshot in a forum post.

Thanks for that, but if you have 11 files in that folder too, then I must have the right amount. Is your exe file a white box, with a blue top? When I hover over that file, it does not say it is an exe file.

Thanks to all those who gave suggestions for the Everlight failure I was having.

I have found out that you need a computer with a separate graphics card, not one that is built into the Motherboard. Also, I had a conflict with my graphics card going on, so I reinstalled windows and now I can play everlight. It still won't work on my laptop simply because the laptop has the card built into the Motherboard.


Hope this helps someone and thanks again!

Glad you managed to get it working.
I hope the game is worth the bother of reinstalling Windows for.

It seems like I would have run into trouble sooner or later with the graphics card, and would have had to reinstall Windows anyway. It's a good game too.

ok so i read this entire post and i'm still having problems. I get the error: installation ended prematurely because of error. I have windows vista basic 32. I tried all the suggestions I could, I don't have AVG. I made sure I put the setup on the list of exceptions on the windows firewall and nothing. I also changed the compatibility mode and still nothing. Is this game a complete lost cause for vista users??

Oh nevermind I fixed it! if anyone else is still having problems installing you just have to register the VBScript.DLL file.

I found this on the web:
Click the Start button (bottom left corner), type CMD in the search field at the bottom. An icon with the text CMD will appear in the top left part of the window. Right-click on it and select "Run as Administrator". Confirm this action if User-Access-Control requests it.

In the command prompt, enter the following command:
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\vbscript.dll

Press ENTER and the next line should have a message saying the registration was successful. You can now run the installation again and it will install correctly.

Thank you for posting your fix.
Hopefully it will help someone else who is having the same problem.

Rachel

Glad you found the problem. Thanks for coming back to let us know. You never know who that might help.

Have fun

I have Vista Ultimate 64 bit and it installed good (after running dx setup), but I have a bug after it gets to the day-night part. It crashes with absolutely no warning and no error messages. All drivers and everything should be fine.
J_Man. I can't read german so I don't know how to get to the help......... I don't have any luck trying to get help from the adventure company, if you read some of my post about another game I got "The Experiment". The Adventure Company sucks at help (any) problems.

J_Man

I have a slight update for the crashes. After having the game crsh several times, I saved the game in several different spots, and finally got to the third part of the game. It crashes here as well, which brings up a question. As long as I save the game and then go on, then is it possible that you need to have the auto save on at all times? I am not fond of auto save because I never know where it is saved at in this game, I guess I will just watch and save more often.

j_Man

Update on the Crash. I put the "fix" in the game. I didn't uninstall game, but in order to play the game I did have to start at a earlier point of time to play it. So if you all ready have the game installed, put the fix in and then start your adventure one step earlier. I have had no problem after the fix and it is a great game, but does need more such as a way to not kill trees (maybe having melvin clime a ladder and trim off one side of tree). There are several other places that can be changed, but Tthe main game is great and got good graphics. Ending is kinda sad.

J_Man

J_Man,
Thank you for keeping us updated on your progress.

Where did you find this "fix?"

If this is a NoCD "crack" that repaired your game, that's pretty strong evidence that the version of SecuROM that Everlight came with has caused your crashes.

the Fix that I am talking about is in this thread farther up submitted by Rachel.. there is some more comments about this fix tho. I have no idea if it is a no cd crack. I am running the cd. I saw that it was supposed to fix the crash, and I followed those instructions, except that I did not un install the game. I then finished the game, but still saved it in spots. I then got curious to see if it would crash without saving. I have now got those results. If this patch works then I do believe that the game will have to be re installed. I got an error message this time tho.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: game.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 46dfbf5d
Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005
Fault Module Timestamp: 49e038c0
Exception Code: 80000003
Exception Offset: 0001e124
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 1c6c
Additional Information 2: 718a6ee762f774a7b0439719ae8d9c86
Additional Information 3: 9dcf
Additional Information 4: a53ca31f3a7a146e4f187032a4b22e60

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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=50163&clcid=0x0409.

Now my question is should I use this fix and re install my game or should I just re install the game?? I don't know enough about programming to know if that fix is a nocd hack or not.

J_man

If you used Rachel's suggestion, it isn't a crack or a patch.
You can read more about what regsvr32 does here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249873

I don't really understand why your vbscript.dll wasn't already registered, but apparently it's happened on other computers as well. You can Google for regsvr32 and vbscript.dll and find out more.

But why do you want to reinstall the game if it's working now. Is it just a test? Unless your vbscript.dll somehow comes unregistered again, the game should work OK without repeating the regsvr32 fix.

When I did my experiment about trying to run game without saving, it crashed again with the upper(next one up) error message, even after running the fix. As far as the game, I tried to register the game, but during regestration, there is an error at the German site trying to get in with no help on that. Does this help??? I will try once more and turn the auto save back on to see if that works. Will let you know what that one does.

J_Man

Update to this post. I have now tried the game with auto save on,(still crashes) so unless someone has a suggestion, my next step will be to re install the game and make sure that the fix is in. I will wait for a bit for any suguestions.

J_Man

I have found an update to this game, but I cannot read it. Could I have someone translate the read me please

Everlight 1.1 vom 26.10.2007
Copyright Silver Style / TGC - The Games Company Worldwide GmbH


Änderungen

Close-Ups
- Gerichtsverhandlung komplett in neuen Close-Ups
- Neue Close-Ups für den Einstieg und die Inbetriebnahme der Zeitmaschine
- Schluss-Szene mit Kuss zwischen Melvin und Laura: neue Close-Ups und einige Kleinigkeiten angepasst/verbessert
- Daphne hat jetzt nachts in ihrem Haus auch ein Close-up, wo man sie von nahem bewundern kann

Animationen
- Startszene: Fenny wackelt jetzt am Käfig um Aufmerksamkeit von Melvin zu bekommen
- Sämtliche Animationen zum Starten der Zeitmaschine neu
- Melvin sägt jetzt das Widder-Horn durch (Neue Cutscene)

Partikeleffekte
- Rauch bei Räucherstäbchen
- Giftiger Rauch bei Stinkbombe
- Niespulverpartikel

Szene
- Eine komplett neu gestaltete Szene wo Melvin in die Zeitmaschine steigt, sie startet und los fliegt

Sounds
- Feuerwerkssound hört sich jetzt mehr nach Lärmbelästigung an
- Die Szene, wo Melvin in die Zeitmaschine einsteigt, wurde mit neuen Soundeffekten versehen

J_Man

Here you go -

Changes

Close-Ups
- Hearing completely in new Close-Ups
- New Close-Ups for the entrance and the introduction of the time machine
- Final scene with kiss between Melvin and Laura: new Close-Ups and some little things conformist / improved
- Now at night Daphne has in her house also a Close-up where one can admire them of the close

Animations
- Start scene: Now Fenny wobbles in the cage around attention of Melvin to agree
- All animations for starting the time machine anew
- Now Melvin saws through the Aries's horn (New Cutscene)

Particle effects
- Smoke with joss stick
- Toxic smoke with Stinkbombe
- Sneezing powder particle

Scene
- A scene anew formed completely where Melvin rises in the time machine, begins them and flies loose

Sounds
- Now fireworks sound sounds more after noise pollution
- The scene where Melvin gets into the time machine was provided with new sound effects

thank you for the translation.

I tried to install the update, but it won't install. I am guessing that that particular update is all ready on the disk. I tried to go to the forums at the website, and I got the NOT found messages on both of the forums. I seem to remember someone here saying something about looking at the forums for this game. Would you happen to have that url???? I want to check deeper on the crashing problem. I have re installed the game, but I still have not put the "fix" that we have been talking about back in the game. I will wait to see if that is needed to prevent the crash first.

J_Man

There used to be a German forum for Everlight at
http://forum.the-games-company.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29
That forum was mentioned in this thread
http://forum.jowood.com/showthread.php?t=165384

"The Games Company" seems to have taken down all their game forums though.