Sunday, July 27, 2014

Flash Oddities and hung games

I have had a report where a player would start the game and it hangs after selecting a slave. There were also only a few slaves shown.

After some testing and debugging this seems to have been caused by a Flash security issue preventing the game loading key files it needs to run, notably Assistants text files, and some of the slave girl files.

This can be fixed by adding the game installation to the Trusted Locations for Flash.

The below are for Windows 7, you may have some differences for Windows 8 or previous OS's. There are similar settings for other OS's but I do not know where they are immediately, you need to be able to change the Flash settings.

a) open the control panel
b) visit System & Security
c) Select the option for Flash
then
1) Check the Advanced tab
2) click "Trusted Location Settings"
3) click the Add button
4) click Add Folder, browse and locate your game installation, and click Confirm

OR
When running the game right click on the window and select "Global Settings", and do steps  1-4

You can also do this by visiting this web page
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
and do steps 1-4 above. This is probably simplest for non-Windows users

Please note:
not all players are affected by this it seems to be related to a security settings, in the OS or browser that probably makes Flash be more secure and prevent it loading some external files.

EDIT:

This may not actually help as I musunderstood the person reporting the issue and thought it was fixed when I asked them to do this. Turns out it was not.

21 comments:

  1. this is not a security issue, but a windows one

    from windows vista through windows seven through windows eight any windows with msseces . . . eats flash . . . and fails at security . . .

    msseces does not work right . . . It did not work on vista . . . it does not work right on eight . . . it does not work right now . . .

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    1. I am running Windows 7 with Microsoft Security Essentials running. I do not get this problem

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  2. Please, cmac, print this instruction for russian windows 7\8 - i search 30 minut, and not understand what.

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    1. There is no need to do anything, what I posted did not help and is not needed

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  3. So is 3.4 available now?

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    1. yes, everyone but you has it.

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    2. It is not ready yet, as I said last post probably this coming weekend

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  4. it do not work. still not all slave showen

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    1. For your case, what slaves are shown, what are missing. Do you see assistants?

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    2. I see all slaves to Nina after her all black. I can see all assistants.

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    3. I have the same problem in Windows 8-64 with the version 3.3 and 3.4.
      I see all slaves when I start the game but after a fonction Save/Load , I see only the slaves of Basic pack, pack1 and 2.

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  5. Where do i got for full download?

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    1. It is not ready yet, as I said last post probably this coming weekend

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    2. We are believing in you)
      Oh, one more thing, if anyone post a torrent file for your latest release (when it will be done, of course) can you place it in theme head/cap*, so every one can use it without having hard time searching for that?
      *in my language we call it "шапка темы", so I don't really rely on google translator support, but I hope that you understand me)

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  6. I have the problem i can´t make a translation of the city. All i translate don´t show in game and i have two times the Slave Market. One on the right spot the other on the slums spot.

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  7. Antivirus may be an issue too. They may have to add it there too.

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  8. I meant, malware protection. But antivirus does silly things too.

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  9. Will you make it this weekend? Waiting gets harder with every passing day :)

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    1. No worries, I think we're all pretty anxious to get our hands on it, but waiting just makes it all the more sweet when it does come out.

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    2. After this wait I don't think I'll have any sweet feelings on release, I will however have dehydration and a sore throat from telling people to go away when they knock on my door.

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    3. Sorry, my comment wasn't intended to annoy or offend. Rather I was just making conversation. I'm sorry if you took it the wrong way.

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