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   Dragonlair
   Member

   With the monthly game supposed to be changed soon (today, I think), I thought it was time to post that I think I finally figured out the odd and obnoxious problem I have been seeing for AGES with this game manager - full games tagged as "demo". It appears to be a Vista problem. It mainly went away with the disastrous username change a few months ago but has popped up a few times since then (temporarily) in a minor way.

   The solution? ----- Run Gamebox as administrator. This does not mean run it from an admin id (I do that by default) but right-click and select "Run as Administrator". You can also, right click and select "Properties" and under the Compatibility tab, set it to run this way all the time. It's not really needed since it only needs to be set once for each game. Once it knows a game is full, loading it in standard mode does not cause that game to "revert" to the other list. I have no idea if this problem occurs with Windows 7. I guess I should let Alawar know what I've discovered!

   Along this same line, most likely as a result of the disaster several months ago, I have been trying to match up the numbers Alawar uses instead of game names when using the Gamebox and I've got 2 numbers I can't identify.

   Can anybody tell me what games 2799 and 5611 are? I've figured out the rest of the numbers I have (27). I would really appreciate it!

   thanks,

   Diane

   Posted 14 years ago #
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   Dragonlair
   Member

   I finally figured out that 2799 is Fizzball. That is one strange breakout game! Does anybody know what game is 5611?

   Posted 14 years ago #
3. 

   NolafromNZ
   Member

   5611 is Hyperballoid 2.

   I really love Fizzball, played it right through when I got it, and still go back to it now.

   Posted 14 years ago #
4. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Both those games are excellent. I've still to create some levels in Hyperballoid 2. :)

   Posted 14 years ago #
5. 

   Dragonlair
   Member

   Thanks, Nola! That was what I needed to know! When you do, create some levels, WR, let me know. I'd love to try them out!

   Posted 14 years ago #
6. 

   Dragonlair
   Member

   BTW - after checking with a friend who also has Vista and has the same problem with the Gamebox, there seems to be a little "trick" to use to get older monthly freebies to show as full. Since the "unlock" button no longer works on those games, you may have to enter the game and then immediately exit back out again. When you go in, it looks at the registry and then updates it's "records". Again - you only have to do it once for each game that is improperly tagged as "demo".

   It worked for all the older games for my friend (3 or 4 of them) and just using the Admin mode corrected this months game.

   Posted 14 years ago #

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