When I try to play this game I get - A Sirius Game has encountered problems and needs to close. Sorry.
Any advice on how to get this game to play?
Thanks, Debbie
A Sirius Game
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mikiem2
ModeratorAfter seeing Whiterabbit's post on the Game GOTD page I took a look & just posted what I found out about installing A Sirius Game. In your case, Debbie. I'd *guess* it's not liking your graphics hardware, but maybe the easiest way to find out for sure is to use Windows Event Viewer, which itself unfortunately isn't always that easy.
To find & start Event Viewer go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -- then basically it's a matter of looking for errors, & hoping that they make sense. In win7 I started with the default view [Event Viewer (Local)], looked in the Last Hour column, expanded Error, then scrolled down the Last hour column until I saw a line with something besides a zero, then double clicked that to find out what that error message said. Then I clicked the Back arrow [just below the Event Viewer menu], & looked for the next error that didn't have a zero in that 1st column.
Sorry I couldn't give a better answer... between .NET 4 & XNA & DX there just are a LOT of possibilities.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Whiterabbit-uk
Games GuruThere were nearly seven thousand downloads of this game; unfortunately it seems quite a few community members had problems installing and getting the game to work. I believe this was 'primarily' caused by one of three factors:
1) ... Not having XNA Framework v4.0 installed
2) ... Not having the latest graphics drivers installed
3) ... Not having a good enough graphics chip to support the game. You needed a minimum of one with pixel shader 2.0 which if memory serves goes back to cards like the NVIDIA 7500 and cards of that ilk which are several years old now. I know my oldest cards now have pixel shader 3.0 and they are a few years old (NVIDIA GTX 275 and NVIDIA GTX 450)The installation process didn't help either because it was different from most installations we've had via the game giveaway project. I can only apologise to all of you who didn't managed to get this game. It has turned out to be one of the best pirate games I've played. :)
Posted 12 years ago # -
mikiem2
ModeratorYou needed a minimum of one with pixel shader 2.0 which if memory serves goes back to cards like the NVIDIA 7500 and cards of that ilk which are several years old now. I know my oldest cards now have pixel shader 3.0 and they are a few years old (NVIDIA GTX 275 and NVIDIA GTX 450)
I think, FWIW, that a lot of PCs/laptops nowadays come with much lower powered graphics hardware than what many of us are used to. There are a lot of PCs/laptops that are just lower powered overall, & there are many that use on-board video rather than a separate, dedicated graphics card to minimize costs. And they work fine for a lot of stuff, until someone tries to play whatever game, & that's where I've read the most complaints [often on the order of "why didn't someone tell me before I bought this?"]. The lucky ones can open the case & add a graphics card [which start around $25] -- those that aren't so lucky have a PC where a dedicated card won't fit, or a laptop which won't take add-on cards at all.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Whiterabbit-uk
Games GuruYes Mikiem, I've noticed that. It's one of the reasons why I always build my own computers. I've only ever purchased two desktop off the shelf, the first back in the day of the 286 and 386 cpus with 4MB of memory and one about 10 years ago when I was in desperate need of one quickly (I only used to have one computer at a time back then) and immediately upgraded the graphics card and power supply then added more Hard Drives.
It's become very easy to build your own as everything (well almost) everything is plug and play. At least I know what I'm getting for my money and it does tend to work out cheaper in the long run because although you can purchased an off the shelf model relatively cheap; if you were going to use it to play high end games like I do, you'd end up upgrading at least the power supply, graphics cards (at least two if you are a dedicated gamer - you can pay around $1500 for the best and most recently released graphics cards and that's just for one - some MoBo's will accommodate up to four graphics cards). You'd probably also need to add a couple more Hard Drives including a Solid Sate Drive (SSD) . The best thing I've ever done with a computer is to install an SSD specifically for the operating system - the boot up speeds are blazingly fast.
I've not got the top of the range cpu, mines a i7 2600K 3.4GHz Quad core Sandybridge with 16GB of RAM and I can cold boot to being able to open a browser or start a game in 25 seconds or re boot (that's closing down then restarting) from say a frozen program in 45 seconds, and with the better cpus I'm sure that will be faster. Also, unless you'd purchased from a dedicated gaming manufacturer such as Alienware, you'd probably need to purchase a new case as well. Basically the off the shelf computers (generally) are only decent for the cpu and the motherboard (MoBo) and even then I'd be tempted to buy a more game oriented MoBo. Oh yeah. then you'd want to add extra cooling, especially an upgrade for the cpu fan. The one that comes with the i7 for example looks puny; if you were thinking of overclocking (the i7 2600K Sandybridge which is already unlocked and easy to overclock up to 4.8GHz (so long as you have superb cooling) ...... and the same goes for the graphic chips. (Gainward Graphics cards using the NVIDIA chip are good for overclocking) You'd certainly need a beefier air cooler or possibly a water cooling system. Water coolers have become much easier to install now , with self contained units available, for example the Corsair H series - {I purchased the H100}, are so easy to install (though you do need to make sure you have a decent full sized case with either 2 x 120mm exhaust fans at the back or on the top of the case (ceiling) so that you can fit the radiator - I wasn't able to use mine (well not yet) as my exhaust fans are 140mm - I'd need to fabricate some brackets, but I've decided to keep the water cooler for my next build (next year), where I'll make certain the exhaust fans are 120mm. Of course all of the above is academic if all you want your computer for is to use it for Emails, browsing the internet or playing the odd arcade game. :) 'Xcuze the waffle my drugs do this, (i.e get me writing loads of drivel, lol)
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