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