http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/problem Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: problem - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:54:10 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-98601 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:52:33 +0000 rta53 98601@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Alawar game box has a new game posted. It&#39;s Arctic Quest 2. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11073#post-98579 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:08:49 +0000 Buzz 98579@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>ya, that solves it all. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11073#post-98566 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:44:23 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 98566@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>If you check the &#39;Problems installing, activating and running today’s game&#39; section of one of my game reviews you may find your answer. You can see one of my last reviews <a href="http://game.giveawayoftheday.com/all-saints-eve-puzzle/"><strong>HERE</strong></a>. Oh well, I may just as well copy it to here. Not all of it is appropriate. :)</p> <p><strong><u>Problems installing, activating and running today’s game</u></strong>:</p> <p><blockquote>If you have difficulty downloading or activating the game you can try again later or do one of the following – for example once downloaded when you click on the dual activation and set up file you may get the message “Failed to connect. Please try again later” Check to see if your internet explorer isn’t offline (thanks to MrSnoozles/Mike and GMMan for that fix). </p> <p>Fistly check to see if your computers specifications match or are better than those quoted. </p> <p>Mike suggests that you check to see if Internet Explorer is offline (even if you use Firefox). If it is then make sure that it’s online then try again. I’ve always tried re-booting my modem and/or router with some success, though Mike has said that doing that does nothing. Still, it’s worth a try if all else fails. </p> <p>If you are getting the black screen problem right click on the games executable and select properties then click on the compatibility mode and select the disable visual themes. This should fix the problem, if not try disabling the display scaling on higher dpi settings and disabling the desktop composition.</p> <p>Other fixes include changing your screen resolution, installing the latest direct X (remember that XP uses DX 9 or earlier only, Vista uses DX 10 or before and Win 7 DX11 or before). Also try updating your graphics drivers. The main two chip manufacturers are NVIDIA and ATI both of which offer driver downloads for free. Just go to the respective manufactures home page and you’ll find a link to the driver download page. To find out which graphic card or graphics chip your computer uses type in Dxdiag in the search field (Vista or Win 7) or the run command (XP); this opens up the DirectX diagnostics panel. click on the display tab and look to the left panel. You should easily see what graphics card or chip you are using. (This is required information when selecting the correct download from the developers site).</p> <p>If you are having problems unzipping the game giveaways zip file, for example getting a message saying the file is invalid try using a different file archiver such as 7-Zip <a href="http://7-zip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://7-zip.org/</a> , J-Zip <a href="http://www.jzip.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jzip.com/</a> , CAM UnZip <a href="http://www.camunzip.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.camunzip.com/</a> , Hamster Free Zip Archiver <a href="http://ziparchiver.hamstersoft.com/en/home" rel="nofollow">http://ziparchiver.hamstersoft.com/en/home</a> , GZip <a href="http://www.gzip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gzip.org/</a> , B Zip2 <a href="http://bzip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://bzip.org/</a> , peazip <a href="http://www.peazip.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.peazip.org/</a> , ZipUnzip <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html</a> , FreeRAR Extract Frog <a href="http://free-rar-extract-frog.pwpw.de/" rel="nofollow">http://free-rar-extract-frog.pwpw.de/</a> , RAR File Open Knife <a href="http://www.rar-file-open-knife.com/rar_file_open_knife.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.rar-file-open-knife.com/rar_file_open_knife.php</a> , ALZip <a href="http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALZip.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.altools.com/ALTools/ALZip.aspx</a> , The Extractor <a href="http://theextractor.org/" rel="nofollow">http://theextractor.org/</a> , RarZilla Free Unrar <a href="http://www.philipp-winterberg.com/software/rarzilla_free_unrar.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.philipp-winterberg.com/software/rarzilla_free_unrar.php</a> </p> <p>Okay, that should be enough. There are actually many more free versions available. also there are other commercial titles such as the well-known WinRAR, Stuffit, WinAce, NXPowerlite and Corel Winzip Pro, but IMO 7-Zip is probably one of the better freebies. I did purchase a copy of Stuffit when it was on sale a few years ago, but didn’t like the interface for some reason, so hardly ever use it.</p> <p>If you are posting late in the day I would also suggest posting in the main giveaway forums in the game discussion section. If you’ve installed the game but it won’t work for some reason, it should still be registered, so someone may be able to help at another time. Unfortunately if your problem is actually installing it then once the giveaway period is over there’s nothing that can be done until the game is given away again (though that isn’t guaranteed. It’s always worth checking out the free games sites as sometimes the games we get here are also available for free from them as well.</blockquote></p> <p>I hope this is of some help. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11073#post-98562 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:27:15 +0000 papiaud 98562@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Graylox, I am happy to see that I am not the only one (sorry for Johon) to have got the problem.<br /> Johon, if you look at the answer Graylox gave me you can get Inpaint working : it is not the last version but it does the job, may be a little slower but you can save your job<br /> Graylox : so the problem remains : if you get &quot;failed to register&quot; <u>from GOTD</u> even if you are in time you miss the offer?<br /> regards </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11073#post-98535 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:51:43 +0000 Johon 98535@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Graylox, thanks for the tips. Today I downloaded and activated Halotea Lite without any problem, same as I&#39;ve been doing on this site for years. So I guess the problem with Inpaint is another. Anyhow, now it&#39;s too late, since now it&#39;s too late to register.</p> <p>Johon </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11073#post-98528 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:25:42 +0000 graylox 98528@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>To understand how to activate please read and follow the FAQs:</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/faq/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6195#post-93052" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6195#post-93052</a></p> <p>Other users gave advice in the comments too.</p> <p>graylox </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/11073#post-98527 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:11:23 +0000 Johon 98527@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Today I installed and activated Inpaint 3.1, well within the time limit, following instructions in the ReadMe file. However, when I opened the program it was not fully functional and I was advised to purchase the program in order to register. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96173 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:53:36 +0000 keithdt56 96173@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I just wanted to say how impressed I was by Alawar&#39;s service in quickly giving the code for Magic Tale, a free game. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96161 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:10:36 +0000 Dragonlair 96161@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I think they&#39;re games are normally $6.99 each. You&#39;re right. I can&#39;t find the price either. I guess the trial would tell you or, you can send them an email and ask them that question. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96159 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:14:19 +0000 Pixiey 96159@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>This is great. I can&#39;t even figure out how much the games are each. Is the only way to find the prices is by playing the trial? Maybe I missed it somewhere...feel a bit blind!</p> <p>Thanks for the info about this though! I loved when it pasted it for me, that was a first! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96115 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:18:21 +0000 Dragonlair 96115@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Pixiey,</p> <p>I forgot to mention; even though you don&#39;t see a &quot;buy&quot; button on Alawar, you can still purchase them normally. You just download and install the game, make sure it works on your system (in trial mode) and THEN you purchase it from the downloaded wrapper. It&#39;s easy to do. If you have the unlock code from elsewhere (as we had to do with Magic Tale this weekend) just enter it from the &quot;Enter Registry Key&quot; link when you say you want to remove the time restriction. If you have it in the clipboard (having copied it just before you do this), it&#39;ll paste it FOR you! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96114 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:33:28 +0000 Pixiey 96114@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Dragonlair, I totally agree with you there! At first I thought it was a buck a month..lol me wishful thinking! I do not know how they will be able to keep with this though. Its a lot of money. I want to be able to play and reinstall if I get a new computer or something. I worry about digital rights. So many companies are consolidating, or closing....then you are sort of left with spent money and not much to show for it. Unless you have a ton of back ups and files. Some have keys or codes, I have started to save mine in a file like WhiteRabbit suggested a bit ago.</p> <p>I am really enjoying MyPlayCity. Are there any others besides Realore and Sandlot? I am really sad to hear about Sandlot. I tried a couple of the trials for the digital chocolate, but they are not my type and one of the demos were for 10 minutes!! I was amazed at that! Their games are not that good, unless I am missing something. I love steam too. I hope they put some more stuff on sale soon! </p> <p>I don&#39;t get the games in any other way from the sites you all suggest, I trust you guys!</p> <p>Pixiey </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96105 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:42:52 +0000 Dragonlair 96105@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Pixey - that $1/day (or some amount a month or $99/year) is to PLAY their games. You do not have the license to it and if you haven&#39;t paid, you can&#39;t play. That can result in your favorites costing far more than their normal price for them.</p> <p>I&#39;d rather get the FULL version (however legitimately - paid or free) and have it downloaded and installed for me to play whenever I get the urge to play that particular game - day or night - internet active or not - just WHENEVER! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96095 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:56:16 +0000 Pixiey 96095@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>They ended up sending me a code too. I have a question though...is it true that you pay a dollar a day for playing anything you want, but then you don&#39;t get to keep what you buy now? Is there any way to buy their games through them or do I have to buy them through places like Big Fish? Not that I mind, I just like the Alawar games, I seem to be liking the time management games, and I never thought that..</p> <p>Just wasting time waiting for Dec. 20th to get here!! LOL Star Wars: The Old Republic will be launching....cannot wait!!</p> <p>Pixiey </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451/page/2#post-96094 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:42:25 +0000 Dragonlair 96094@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>@Pixiey, I used their &quot;technical support&quot; form and had my code within about 15 minutes (if not less). It may be because today is Saturday.</p> <p>@ScarletPetal, thanks for the info. I remember starting Magic Tea but not continuing to help out someone with a question on it. I don&#39;t care for the &quot;marble&quot; (Zuma) kind of games. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96092 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:49:37 +0000 ScarletPetal 96092@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Ah, thanks for that, ZF ....<br /> Hopefully, they will fix the error soon.<br /> And, Dragonlair, 2992 seems to be the number of the last game offered, Magic Tea. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96091 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:18:30 +0000 Pixiey 96091@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I emailed them last night and still have not heard back....maybe using the form that is on the site is a bad idea...is there a different email to use?</p> <p>Pixiey </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96089 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:56:41 +0000 Dragonlair 96089@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You&#39;re right - that&#39;s not easy to find. Especially since with Vista, that xml file is in ProgramData which is a hidden file (at least for Vista).</p> <p>Question - The only key I found was for game 2992. Magic Tale is game 3041. Does anybody know what game 2992 is? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96088 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:57:18 +0000 ZF 96088@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I just tried it a little while ago. The Game Box is in fact sending the registration key with the free game, but an error in the setup file assigns the wrong path for the game ID, mixing up two different game numbers and causing it to fail. If you look at the error log in the game folder you&#39;ll see &quot;SetRegistrationKey failed&quot;.</p> <p>The error itself (as well as the key) is in page_start.xml in the GameBox folder. Pasting the key into the proper place on the game launcher is certainly an option, but not for the average user. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96087 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:38:37 +0000 ScarletPetal 96087@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hmmm, well ... I checked the Gamebox last night, but my Free Game tab (which previously had Magic Tea on it) is now blank; I didn&#39;t even get the offer for Magic Tale - which is one I would have liked! Perhaps they have pulled if off? I do hope they put it back when they sort out the problem! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96084 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:20:13 +0000 Dragonlair 96084@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>rta - even using the form, the phone number is OPTIONAL. I have never given them anything but my email address. And I don&#39;t use my normal one. They seem to have trouble with some addresses so I switched to Yahoo and those get through OK. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96083 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:04:32 +0000 rta53 96083@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I don&#39;t see why they need my phone # in order to get a code for the free game.</p> <p>Update: I remembered I could just email them directly without having to use their form. I did so and and just got my unlock key. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96067 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:21:41 +0000 Pixiey 96067@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thank you! Found it and the game..hit unlock and I get the games for sale. I guess I have to contact them too for a code.</p> <p>Thanks for all the help!! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96064 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:51:22 +0000 StevieD 96064@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hiya Pixiey, the game is available through Alawars Gamebox software. The software is still available but you will have to search for it.</p> <p>@Dragonlair, I have also received a full activation code from Alawar for Magic Tale....but no other emails from them (So far at least :) ). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96063 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:18:05 +0000 Pixiey 96063@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi!<br /> I was just on Alawar&#39;s site, how do you get the free game? I love MyPlayCity! Have found all sorts of gems there!!</p> <p>Thanks for the help, always looking out for some good free games. I love steam&#39;s sales, I hope they have some good ones soon!!</p> <p>Pixiey </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96060 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:28:01 +0000 Dragonlair 96060@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Has anybody else had this problem with Alawar today? I sent them an email about the unlock button in the Free Game not working. Within a few minutes I had a response and a code. A bit later I got an email in Russian with an unlock code in a totally different style for a totally different game. I replied to that email that they must have sent to the wrong address. I sent back in English (I used Google translate to find out what they said). I got a reply, IN English of an apology and asking if I got the code for Magic Tale. A short while after that message was sent to me, I got another Russian email for a third game.</p> <p>I only asked for one game. These codes are not the style to work for me (only about 10 digits long instead of the about 150 character codes I see normally). How am I triggering for totally different games (Farm Frenzy: Vikings and Father&#39;s Daughter)?</p> <p>The only thing I can see is that &quot;unlock&quot; button is really hosed up! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96057 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:33:41 +0000 Dragonlair 96057@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I got my unlock code - I emailed them and they apologized and emailed me a &quot;normal&quot; unlock code. That&#39;s the best solution possible. This way I KNOW the game will be able to be moved to another machine later.</p> <p>It&#39;s not a bad little match 3 either. </p> <p>It&#39;s a triple day for me - MPC has a HOG, Alawar has a Match 3 and Realore has the sequel to last week&#39;s game. Woohoo!!!!! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96055 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:24:54 +0000 StevieD 96055@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>You beat me to it Dragonlair, was just gonna post about their new unlock routine not working. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96052 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:09:10 +0000 Dragonlair 96052@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, StevieD. However, there is one problem - it won&#39;t unlock! I downloaded it from the Gamebox but the unlock won&#39;t work. I&#39;m gonna email them on this one. Something is WRONG! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9451#post-96051 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:07:08 +0000 Terri218 96051@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It&#39;s been so long since I downloaded anything from the Game Box, I can&#39;t even find it now. </p> <p>Interestingly I see they now have a subscription plan which includes a 24 hour subscription for $1. This is great for me to play a game I can&#39;t find anywhere else for free or as part of my Shockwave subscription that I just want to play once (I rarely replay games). I have been known to stay on the computer all day to finish one game. (Forgive me Dragonlair, I see you already posted about this). </p>