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Post by ✬MsWildiful✬ on Aug 12, 2019 7:57:58 GMT -5
Hi lovely Petz peoples, the other day I got a delightful Windows 10 laptop as an early Birthday Present ^_^ I got Petz to work initially by running it in compatibility for Windows XP Service pack 3, and it worked pretty well yesterday! however this morning my game will load 3/4th of the way and task manager says it's not responding, it freezes D: Any idea what caused this and how I can fix it? I changed my display scaling from 125% to 100% but it makes no difference. There's also another problem I had on this PC as well as my Windows 8.1, it's where I press the space-bar to photograph my Petz, the first time is always okay, but whenever I click "take picture of other pet" or whatever it's called my game will most of the time have an "unhandled exception" error, and it forces me to abort the game. Any advice would be appreciated, it's a blessing to have some tech support available for a 21 year old game
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Post by smonikkims on Aug 12, 2019 8:47:20 GMT -5
Not sure about the unhandled exception, I get it too occasionally but it isn't related to photos. As for the loading I also get that, especially when it's the first time opening the game after starting up the computer. I find that if you close it after it freezes and try it again, after a long time loading it will open on the second try. Pretty sure you will already have tried that though...!
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Post by Thor on Aug 12, 2019 10:02:30 GMT -5
The "Take Picture of Other Pet" button does not work when there are more than 2 petz-- I think that is just the nature of a game that was only meant to have 2 petz out at a time. It doesn't always crash, but more often than not, I just use the "Take All Petz" button instead and then edit the image to include the one or two I want. (My solution)
As for Windows 10, you don't have to run in compatibility mode if you have PetzA. Just run as administrator should work.
Try removing all extra breeds, toyz, clothes, and petz etc from the game and then open it. See if it loads quicker?
Also Windows 10 does not like plants at all. Try removing the seed toyz (this will make them not be planted anymore) and then opening the game. You can add them back in after the game loads and all is fine.
I did observe longer load times in Windows 10 than Windows 7, but if you wait a really long time, it will eventually load if you wait. It's not that its "not responding"-- Windows defines a program that is hung as one that is "not responding" even tho its not exactly true and its still loading/working on stuff. Nowadays properly programming for Windows means loading a bit and then checking in with the OS, so when older programs don't do this (or when I am lazy and make a Windows app that doesn't do this), Windows will think the program is not responding even tho it very well could still be doing things.
My fix for Windows 10 is I don't have many toyz and clothes and playscenes. I have them in organized folders and when I want a playscene, I'll move it into the game. Or when I want certain clothes, etc. I do the same thing for breeds. Its annoying but it keeps my game quick to load AND I can plant a garden.
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Post by Michigane on Aug 12, 2019 13:13:23 GMT -5
^ As Thor said above. Here's a screenshot you can find on Petz A's download website:
For Petz not loading, it sometimes have trouble loading on my windows 10 and stops itself, but if I wait long enough and don't click on it, it loads fully. If this is not the cause, then you could try removing any potentially corrupted files. The compatibility mode could make it glitch as well.
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Post by ✬MsWildiful✬ on Aug 12, 2019 19:39:19 GMT -5
Thank you everyone! I didn't know that was an official bug stated about PetzA! This will save me so many crashes Also thank you Thor, I will try and remove my seeds from the game, in-fact last night I did install some growable corn and radish to grow a garden with my Petz and planted a few seeds so maybe my crops have some bugs xP
EDIT: It works! running Petz as an administrator with all seeds removed (including PF Magic seeds) starts up fine and I'm also really chuffed to be aware of why my game would crash when I took pictures, that's a life-saver Thanks again everyone, have a great week!
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Post by Buck on Aug 17, 2019 8:47:49 GMT -5
This is all so good to know! I also recommend not leaving the game on the clothes or the toyz closets cuz that can cause extra loading time too.
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