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Posted March 28, 2011
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reaver894: That was my first thought but did full scans after a forced anti-virus update and turned up ONE tracking cookie.
Also all other games work fine its just the file for JE. I also scanned the HDD incase of bad sectors or something, but its fine.
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DrakeFox: Just out of curiousity. If it works to drop it in there for one go, then it disappears. Have you tried dropping it into your Windows\System32 folder? Lots of DLL's go in there. The game should definately check if the DLL is in that folder if it isn't in the game folder.
If you're running Vista or 7, the game would also have a hard time deleting the .dll unless you give it administrative privileges.

I recall the Quake collection I got on CD. Quake 1 would refuse to startup hardware accelerated. Turns out the shipped opengl.dll file is in fact a 3dfx version of the file. Deleting it from the game folder will make Quake read the file in system32, which works for your computer. Just a suggestion.
Just tried dumping a copy of the file there aswell, same issue. (although when I check the System32 its still there?)
Posted March 28, 2011
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DrakeFox: Just out of curiousity. If it works to drop it in there for one go, then it disappears. Have you tried dropping it into your Windows\System32 folder? Lots of DLL's go in there. The game should definately check if the DLL is in that folder if it isn't in the game folder.
If you're running Vista or 7, the game would also have a hard time deleting the .dll unless you give it administrative privileges.

I recall the Quake collection I got on CD. Quake 1 would refuse to startup hardware accelerated. Turns out the shipped opengl.dll file is in fact a 3dfx version of the file. Deleting it from the game folder will make Quake read the file in system32, which works for your computer. Just a suggestion.
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reaver894: Just tried dumping a copy of the file there aswell, same issue. (although when I check the System32 its still there?)
Well it could be that the game doesn't check the system32 folder, though that's kind of weird behaviour seeing how that's been a fairly standard place to dump dll's for use.
You could try to put the DLL in the jade empire directory, as you've tried, but before launching the game, make it read-only (right click file, properties, check read-only)
Posted March 28, 2011
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reaver894: Just tried dumping a copy of the file there aswell, same issue. (although when I check the System32 its still there?)
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DrakeFox: Well it could be that the game doesn't check the system32 folder, though that's kind of weird behaviour seeing how that's been a fairly standard place to dump dll's for use.
You could try to put the DLL in the jade empire directory, as you've tried, but before launching the game, make it read-only (right click file, properties, check read-only)
Yeah, that was one of the first things I tried when it was deleting it, it seems wierd.
Posted March 28, 2011
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DrakeFox: Well it could be that the game doesn't check the system32 folder, though that's kind of weird behaviour seeing how that's been a fairly standard place to dump dll's for use.
You could try to put the DLL in the jade empire directory, as you've tried, but before launching the game, make it read-only (right click file, properties, check read-only)
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reaver894: Yeah, that was one of the first things I tried when it was deleting it, it seems wierd.
Wow, persistant. Maybe it's Bio's way of trying to afflict consequences to the decisions in game outside the game?

And removing your own privileges to delete or modify the file, leaving read only access isn't an option I guess?
Posted March 28, 2011
It is aan option i think but how would that do anything?
Posted March 28, 2011
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Thanks for the tip about not installing to the default Program Files if having problems - i never realized that could be a problem.

Also, as for a file or driver disappearing I would suspect that a cleaning utility or antivirus is deleting or quarantining the file.
Posted March 29, 2011
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StingingVelvet: I hate all these older games that require weird video codecs or even players. That's going to be a real pain in the ass when trying to run these 20 years from now.

The original Mafia requires some video player that is no longer freeware and you have to download some ancient XP version.
See Tex Overseer...
Posted March 29, 2011
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reaver894: It is aan option i think but how would that do anything?
Well it is a very far shot, but removing or overriding read-only should be easy for the game.
If the user the game runs under hasn't got any privileges other than read on the file, not even the ability to grant itself more privileges, then it should be impossible for the game to delete the file.
If it still disappears then I'd say it's not the game removing the .dll file.

Then you could use something like ProcMon and filter it to only show things relating to the dll file in the background while you start the game and then quit it. Should show you all processes which poke at the file.
Posted March 29, 2011
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carnival73: Also, as for a file or driver disappearing I would suspect that a cleaning utility or antivirus is deleting or quarantining the file.
That's a possibility. The .dll file would get picked up (as a true of false positive, I don't know) by the antivirus when it's used, ie. when you run the game. I would check the antivirus logs if I were you.

In last resort, create a script that copies the .dll file into the game folder and runs the game. Then every time you want to play, launch the game using the script. A .bat file should be able to do that in 2-3 lines.
Posted March 29, 2011
THANKYOU ALL

The first issue MSE has thrown up. According to the logs it has deleted the .dll 17 times as a trojan. Ive added it to the exceptions list and its fine for now. I gather JE is about 25 to 35 hours so itll proply only last another ten hour before its uninstalled but i have stuck a post-it in the case as a reminder for next time.
Posted March 29, 2011
There we go all finished, its 3.30am so ill update the games completed list after a wee sleep
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