Early Nancy Drew games not working on windows 7
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I installed all of my early ND games on windows7 and only Ghost Dogs Of Moon Lake works. Among those that don't play are Treasure In The Royal Tower, Stay Tuned For Danger, The Haunted Carousel, and Danger On Deception Island. I haven't tried any others yet. I get an error message. Does anybody know why? Is there a fix?
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Re: Early Nancy Drew games not working on windows 7
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I think that if you post this in the Glitches, they can help you more  You might need to tweek the PC settings for those games tho They'll help you there
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Early Nancy Drew games will not work on my windows 7
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I installed all of my early ND games on windows7 and only Ghost Dogs Of Moon Lake works. Among those that don't play are Treasure In The Royal Tower, The Final Scene, Stay Tuned For Danger, The Haunted Carousel, and Danger On Deception Island. I haven't tried any others yet. I get an error message. I also get an error message on Direct X. Does anybody know why? Is there a fix?
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Marlene aka Penny Lane (Paul McCartney fan)
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Re: Early Nancy Drew games will not work on my windows 7
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From your description it sounds like the DirectX 9.0c libraries weren't installed with the game (or were bypassed). DirectX 11 and 9.0c can both be installed on a Windows 7 PC, so there's no need to worry about corrupting it. You can download the Web installer at the link below - DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
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Re: Early Nancy Drew games not working on windows 7
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Very good news, Marlene!  Apparently there are some folks on Windows 7 who can't get Secrets to Kill or Stay Tuned for Danger to run well or at all (sound problems included). The other games should present no problems. Her Interactive has discontinued Stay Tuned for Danger due to its incompatibilities for a lot of folks with Win 7 - if you can't get that one to run, know that you are not alone; you might need to use an older computer on that one. You should be good to go on the rest; you can always play the Remastered version of Secrets Can Kill.  I started Stay Tuned For Danger (only the opening sequence) and it seemed to run ok but I haven't gotten into the game yet. As for Secrets Can Kill I don't care about that one since I purchased to new updated version.I haven't installed the old one and wasn't planning on doing so.
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Marlene aka Penny Lane (Paul McCartney fan)
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Re: Early Nancy Drew games not working on windows 7
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01/18/12 01:46 PM
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I started Stay Tuned For Danger (only the opening sequence) and it seemed to run ok but I haven't gotten into the game yet. Do you have 64-bit Windows 7?
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