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Offline babablue

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Problem Playing
« on: June 23, 2010, 08:49:36 am »
Hi
I just downloaded Aquaria, it installed successfully. I'm using Windows 7
BUt when I clicked the Aquaria shortcut it opens the configuration and when I clicked Launch nothing happened, it just disappeared for 1 second and back again to the configuration. The screen didn't even go blank or anything.

Help please? thanks

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Re: Problem Playing
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2010, 10:09:55 am »
Tried updating drivers? Changing the configuration? Turn on/off v-sync?
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Re: Problem Playing
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2010, 03:58:54 pm »
How about running the config (not the main game) as admin? You'll probably need to write the config to Program Files. And the config sometime crashes, so you might have to try different settings.
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Re: Problem Playing
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 01:54:40 pm »
Hi,

I updated my driver, it was successfully updated but the game still doesn't open. my card is NVIDIA GT220M

I am admin in the laptop. What do you mean by 'write the config to Program Files'?

Thanks for the help

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Re: Problem Playing
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2010, 04:29:53 pm »
Aquaria checks for a file named "ran" in its directory. If AQConfig didn't crash on you, it should have generated the file. However, if it doesn't have permission to do so from the OS, then it can't make the file. If Aquaria doesn't find the file, it'll just loop you back to AQConfig. So run AQConfig as admin (right click on it and click on "Run as Administrator").

If that still doesn't work, manually create the file. Open a text editor (such as WordPad or NotePad) as admin, and then enter a few digits in it (mine says 97). Then save the file under Aquaria's directory with the name "ran". You may have to rename it if your text editor saved it as a .txt.
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