+ In Windows XP; unexplained AC crashes, and sound problems
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+ Sound Problems with WinXP SP2
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+ Windows XP with SP2 has special new quirks, and Petz 5 apparently starts up + with a sounds error message now. Kahlah has posted an alert about this on the APKC/BCKC forum , you may find more info there, but + here's the quick fix for you: If Petz 5 won't play sounds for you, find the + two files smapi.dll and setupapi.dll which are both where you installed Petz 5 + (probably C:\Program Files\UBI Soft\Studio Mythos\Petz 5) and delete them. If + you cannot see .dll files on your machine, open My Computer, Choose View + Options from the menu, and make sure that View all files is ticked on the View + tab. Then you'll see those files and can remove them. Actually, Petz 5 will + run just fine without most of the files which are in that main directory. +
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+ Breedfiles Crashing problems
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+ Okay, I'm writing this because it seems that people -- usually with Windows + XP, but also sometimes with updated Windows ME systems -- are getting Petz 4 + or 5 doing a crash-to-desktop when trying to bring some of my breedz out at + the Adoption centre. Sometimes it happens with already-adopted petz when they + try to breed. In most cases, there is nothing wrong with the breedfile. I + always check when someone reports a problem and, if the breed does not crash + my game, you have come up against the "XP-nasties". This is a problem that I + am unable to duplicate because I do not have (and never intend to have) that + operating system on my machine (or Windows ME either), and all my breedz work + fine on my system. +
+ ++ From what I can gather, it tends to be mostly Mutt or Dalmatian-based breedz + which crash in this manner, and I have found that people who complain about + this can often run the breedz fine if I remove a certain part from the file. I + have no time now to go through every single one of my breedz to re-do them + just in case they produce this problem which doesn't happen for me, nor do I + want to mess them about like that, so I'm telling you here what you can try in + order to get the pets to come out or breed for you. +
+ ++ First of all, make sure you've downloaded the sound-stripped version of the + breedfile as opposed to the patchfile version. I believe that people have been + having other problems with Windows ME or XP and the patchfiles. I do not now + have patchfiles at this site, but if you got one from somewhere else, dump it + and grab the proper one. +
+ ++ Now, either using ResHacker or a hex editor of your choice, remove the [Fur + Markings] which are below [Ballz Info]. If this doesn't fix the problem, also + remove the [Fur Color Areas]. +
+ ++ With ResHacker you can either delete the whole [Fur Markings] section from the + beginning of [Fur Markings] down to directly before [Lnz Version] (do not + touch [Lnz Version]) or simply insert a semi-colon at the beginning of each + line (this is a "comment-out") but not the [Lnz Version] line. If you're + removing [Fur Color Areas] also, similarly delete or comment-out from the + beginning of [Fur Color Areas] to directly before [Lnz Version]. Compile, + save, and run the game with the breedfile in place. +
+ ++ With a hex editor you can replace all the part from the beginning of [Fur + Markings] (or [Fur Color Areas]) down to and including the last number + before [Lnz Version] with spaces. Save, and run the game with the + breedfile in place. +
+ ++ The pet should come out of the Adoption Centre now even with horrible old + Windows XP, and if it doesn't then I can't help you -- as I said before, my + breedz work fine in my game just as they are. +
+ +Enjoy!
+ +Carolyn Horn
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