Q. Me husband bought me a new Gateway computer in February, running Windows 8. It came with Wildtangent Games app preinstalled, which i loved, since i played a lot of the games on old computer.
No problems for a few weeks but then suddenly the app will not load. The icon appears in the task bar, i get "the swirl" telling me it's working on opening... then nothing. If i right-click the icon and close it out, then everything is ok but if i leave the app "open" then i cannot do anything ~ cannot open another window, etc. until I close it out.
Is there a fix for this? I have even tried uninstalling WTG but it seems super complicated. I know y'all will need more info than what i've provided so please let me know what else is needed to get help with this issue and i'll provide.
Thanks ahead of time!
No problems for a few weeks but then suddenly the app will not load. The icon appears in the task bar, i get "the swirl" telling me it's working on opening... then nothing. If i right-click the icon and close it out, then everything is ok but if i leave the app "open" then i cannot do anything ~ cannot open another window, etc. until I close it out.
Is there a fix for this? I have even tried uninstalling WTG but it seems super complicated. I know y'all will need more info than what i've provided so please let me know what else is needed to get help with this issue and i'll provide.
Thanks ahead of time!
A. Hey, I think I have a workaround for you. This is going to get a bit technical, so try to stick with me. The overall thing I think you need to do is to erase bad window placement settings for the app. The window placement settings are recorded in a settings.ini file located in your user data folders. Getting to those folders for someone without moderate knowledge about navigating system files can be tricky.
Ultimately you are trying to get to:
"C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\
WildTangent\WildTangent Games\App\Settings\"
(I'm sorry but I had to put that file path in two lines because Yahoo! kept truncating it)
Here is a way to get there:
Open File Explorer (I always use the shortcut keys: WinKey + E)
Go to your C: drive.
Go to the "Users" folder.
Go to the folder for the currently logged in user. If your username has spaces in it, I think it will only be the first word. (ie If your username is "John Doe" the user folder would be "John")
Go to the "AppData" folder. This is the trickier part. Windows by default hides this folder because if you go into there and mess with things too much you can potentially cause a lot of problems for yourself. You have to manually add "\AppData" to what is already in the "address bar" in the file exporer window. It should now read: "C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData"
Then go into the following folders "Roaming"->"WildTangent"->"WildTangent Games"->"App"->"Settings"
At this point you should be in the folder I mentioned near the beginning:
"C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\
WildTangent\WildTangent Games\App\Settings\"
(Again I'm sorry but I had to put that file path in two lines because Yahoo! kept truncating it)
From here you can either delete the Settings.ini file completely or remove all the lines under "[Placement]". On my machine those lines look like this:
[Placement]
Length=44
Flags=0
ShowCmd=1
PtMinPosition=-1, -1
PtMaxPosition=-1, -1
RcNormalPosition=320, 20, 1600, 1020
Some of the numbers will be different on your computer, but you should have the same value names (ie "RcNormalPosition" etc...). Once you have removed the strings try starting the app again and the window should pop up. Hopefully this doesn't sound too scary, the app should recover from a missing settings file with no problem so if you tried just removing the strings and it seems like something is broken you can just remove the file altogether. As long as you only modify that one file nothing else should go wrong. You could help out the people working on the app by posting what values were stored in your settings.ini file when it wasn't working so they know what values caused it to get like that.
Ultimately you are trying to get to:
"C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\
WildTangent\WildTangent Games\App\Settings\"
(I'm sorry but I had to put that file path in two lines because Yahoo! kept truncating it)
Here is a way to get there:
Open File Explorer (I always use the shortcut keys: WinKey + E)
Go to your C: drive.
Go to the "Users" folder.
Go to the folder for the currently logged in user. If your username has spaces in it, I think it will only be the first word. (ie If your username is "John Doe" the user folder would be "John")
Go to the "AppData" folder. This is the trickier part. Windows by default hides this folder because if you go into there and mess with things too much you can potentially cause a lot of problems for yourself. You have to manually add "\AppData" to what is already in the "address bar" in the file exporer window. It should now read: "C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData"
Then go into the following folders "Roaming"->"WildTangent"->"WildTangent Games"->"App"->"Settings"
At this point you should be in the folder I mentioned near the beginning:
"C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\
WildTangent\WildTangent Games\App\Settings\"
(Again I'm sorry but I had to put that file path in two lines because Yahoo! kept truncating it)
From here you can either delete the Settings.ini file completely or remove all the lines under "[Placement]". On my machine those lines look like this:
[Placement]
Length=44
Flags=0
ShowCmd=1
PtMinPosition=-1, -1
PtMaxPosition=-1, -1
RcNormalPosition=320, 20, 1600, 1020
Some of the numbers will be different on your computer, but you should have the same value names (ie "RcNormalPosition" etc...). Once you have removed the strings try starting the app again and the window should pop up. Hopefully this doesn't sound too scary, the app should recover from a missing settings file with no problem so if you tried just removing the strings and it seems like something is broken you can just remove the file altogether. As long as you only modify that one file nothing else should go wrong. You could help out the people working on the app by posting what values were stored in your settings.ini file when it wasn't working so they know what values caused it to get like that.
Windows 8 computer games?
Q. Are there any games like GTA or Skyrim that will work on windows 8? I've tried GTA IV and had absolutely no luck. I almost regret buy a computer with Windows 8.
I figured it would be compatible as well, but I can't get it to play for the life of me.
In fact after looking on amazon where I downloaded it from, it even says not compatible... I feel retarded.
I figured it would be compatible as well, but I can't get it to play for the life of me.
In fact after looking on amazon where I downloaded it from, it even says not compatible... I feel retarded.
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I almost regret buy a computer with Windows 8.
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You have now found out that you can't download and install what you want with W8. You should have done some very serious research into W8 systems before you bought it. You are going to learn what W8 means to the MS Zombie the end users eventually, when you start paying through the nose for all the W8 software,
W7 software will not run on W8 systems. All software for W8 has to have the MS UEFI digital signed signature before it will install and run, and to get that you have to buy all the software from MS,
If you want to run your computer the way you want to run it, and not be controlled 100% by Microsoft then you are going to have to jail break it, MS is in business to make money, They are not in business to make the end users happy, remember that in the future.
If you want to or feel like jail breaking from W8 and Microsoft then send me a message I'll tell you how to do it.
I almost regret buy a computer with Windows 8.
Reply
You have now found out that you can't download and install what you want with W8. You should have done some very serious research into W8 systems before you bought it. You are going to learn what W8 means to the MS Zombie the end users eventually, when you start paying through the nose for all the W8 software,
W7 software will not run on W8 systems. All software for W8 has to have the MS UEFI digital signed signature before it will install and run, and to get that you have to buy all the software from MS,
If you want to run your computer the way you want to run it, and not be controlled 100% by Microsoft then you are going to have to jail break it, MS is in business to make money, They are not in business to make the end users happy, remember that in the future.
If you want to or feel like jail breaking from W8 and Microsoft then send me a message I'll tell you how to do it.
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