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MENU
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Feb 2022 (except noframes)
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* main
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Nov 2023
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* babyz/babyzplayscene
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Dec 2023
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* babyz/babyztoyz
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HOME
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* phantarella
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crashingxp
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petzfriendsite
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WHATSNEW
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">
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<!-- from source -->
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<title>For Windows XP especially</title>
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<!-- -->
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<!-- archive menu -->
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<script src="/menu.js?@root" type="module"></script>
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<script src="/polyfills.js?@root" type="module"></script>
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</head>
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<body class="brown side-padding big">
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<p class="center purple bigger">
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<b>In Windows XP; unexplained AC crashes, and sound problems</b><br>
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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</p>
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<p>
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Sound Problems with WinXP SP2<br>
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=============================
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</p>
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<p>
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Windows XP with SP2 has special new quirks, and Petz 5 apparently starts up
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with a sounds error message now. Kahlah has posted an alert about this on <a
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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060105132413/http://lesley.proboards21.com/index.cgi?boardpetforum"
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target="_top">the APKC/BCKC forum </a>, you may find more info there, but
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here's the quick fix for you: If Petz 5 won't play sounds for you, find the
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two files smapi.dll and setupapi.dll which are both where you installed Petz 5
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(probably C:\Program Files\UBI Soft\Studio Mythos\Petz 5) and delete them. If
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you cannot see .dll files on your machine, open My Computer, Choose View
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Options from the menu, and make sure that View all files is ticked on the View
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tab. Then you'll see those files and can remove them. Actually, Petz 5 will
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run just fine without most of the files which are in that main directory.
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</p>
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<p>
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Breedfiles Crashing problems<br>
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===========================
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</p>
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<p>
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Okay, I'm writing this because it seems that people -- usually with Windows
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XP, but also sometimes with updated Windows ME systems -- are getting Petz 4
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or 5 doing a crash-to-desktop when trying to bring some of my breedz out at
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the Adoption centre. Sometimes it happens with already-adopted petz when they
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try to breed. In most cases, there is nothing wrong with the breedfile. I
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always check when someone reports a problem and, if the breed does not crash
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my game, you have come up against the "XP-nasties". This is a problem that I
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am unable to duplicate because I do not have (and never intend to have) that
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operating system on my machine (or Windows ME either), and all my breedz work
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fine on my system.
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</p>
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<p>
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From what I can gather, it tends to be mostly Mutt or Dalmatian-based breedz
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which crash in this manner, and I have found that people who complain about
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this can often run the breedz fine if I remove a certain part from the file. I
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have no time now to go through every single one of my breedz to re-do them
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just in case they produce this problem which doesn't happen for me, nor do I
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want to mess them about like that, so I'm telling you here what you can try in
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order to get the pets to come out or breed for you.
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</p>
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<p>
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First of all, make sure you've downloaded the sound-stripped version of the
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breedfile as opposed to the patchfile version. I believe that people have been
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having other problems with Windows ME or XP and the patchfiles. I do not now
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have patchfiles at this site, but if you got one from somewhere else, dump it
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and grab the proper one.
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</p>
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<p>
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Now, either using <a href="http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/"
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target="_top">ResHacker </a>or a hex editor of your choice, remove the [Fur
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Markings] which are below [Ballz Info]. If this doesn't fix the problem, also
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remove the [Fur Color Areas].
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</p>
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<p>
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With ResHacker you can either delete the whole [Fur Markings] section from the
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beginning of [Fur Markings] down to directly before [Lnz Version] (do not
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touch [Lnz Version]) or simply insert a semi-colon at the beginning of each
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line (this is a "comment-out") but not the [Lnz Version] line. If you're
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removing [Fur Color Areas] also, similarly delete or comment-out from the
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beginning of [Fur Color Areas] to directly before [Lnz Version]. Compile,
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save, and run the game with the breedfile in place.
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</p>
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<p>
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With a hex editor you can replace all the part from the beginning of [Fur
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Markings] (or [Fur Color Areas]) down to and including the last number
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<b>before</b> [Lnz Version] with spaces. Save, and run the game with the
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breedfile in place.
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</p>
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<p>
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The pet should come out of the Adoption Centre now even with horrible old
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Windows XP, and if it doesn't then I can't help you -- as I said before, my
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breedz work fine in my game just as they are.
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</p>
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<p class="bigger purple center">Enjoy!</p>
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<p class="bigger purple center">Carolyn Horn</p>
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</body>
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