All known XP problems with AGI Studio and games

[Kon-Tiki]

As it seems alot of people have problems with XP, both with AGI Studio in it and playing the AGI games in XP, it seems like a good idea to make a sticky thread with all the known problems and their solution. Kinda like a database, which'd save alot of frustration and searching for XP-users that're new to the AGI scene. So, post the problems you know of here, along with the solution you know of, or point a problem or bug out that hasn't been mentioned before.

[gennadiy]

These errors and problems appear on Windows 2k, too.

I can't save logics in AGI Studio, so I save them "manually", I mean I edit logics in Notepad and save them there. You have to compile them in AGI Studio, though.

It's kinda annoying though, but I don't know any other solution to it.

[robingravel]

I heard from people that agimouse, an agi hack let you to use mouse in the game like Naturette 2,3, Serguei's destiny 2 demo, does not work on XP users.

And the new computer owners has in their computer xp is installed.

The only way to play some agimouse games is to use Nagi.


Robin Gravel

[Allen]

I can't even open AGIStudio, apart from v1.34.

[Chris Cromer]

Well you could also use dosbox as well to run the AGI games without NAGI or Sarien.

[robingravel]

You're right Chris. But Dosbox runs many games even slower
than on the older computers.


Robin Gravel

[Allen]

That's easy to fix. CTRL-F12 should do it. Set it to 7000 and it should be fine.

[ikachu]

I've tried 1.37 and 1.38 beta and always get the same error when I try to create a new game:

Error: Invalid directory "C:\first\".

(Or whatever directory I choose to start my game in)

[Chris Cromer]

There is a problem with creating a game in the main drive. You have to make it in a subdirectory.

For instance:
C:\Games\first\ works

C:\first\ does not work

[robingravel]

That's easy to fix. CTRL-F12 should do it. Set it to 7000 and it should be fine.

Dosbox is still too slow to play some games. I have a 500 mhz.
Peharps a faster computer will work better.


Robin Gravel

[ikachu]

There is a problem with creating a game in the main drive. You have to make it in a subdirectory.

For instance:
C:\Games\first\ works

C:\first\ does not work

I just tried C:\Games\first\ and it gave me the same problem.  Any more suggestions?

[Chris Cromer]

Well there can be other causes behind that error as well besides what I just mentioned. I think there was a topic somewhere about it... you could use the search button at the top to find it.

[Ron]

Theres another problem, you cant paste a cel in the view editor..
It paste it right but after you save it it turns black.

[Kon-Tiki]

That's a problem with the versions of AGI Studio after Peter Kelly's last version. It's nothing with XP or so. Just get AGI Studio 1.31 and do the views in that one. It ought to work fine Nailhead is aware of this bug and tried to fix it in version 1.38b, but it's still in there last time I tested it. Safest bet is 1.31.

[Joel]

I heard from people that agimouse, an agi hack let you to use mouse in the game like Naturette 2,3, Serguei's destiny 2 demo, does not work on XP users.

And the new computer owners has in their computer xp is installed.

The only way to play some agimouse games is to use Nagi.


Robin Gravel

Interesting. I have personally never had problems doing anything AGI on XP (and I have tried on several XP computers), aside from having to be a bit more careful with large fill spaces. I think most problems that people have must have something to do with hardware or settings. But it does appear on my own machine that the AGI Mouse hack doesn't work. Or at least I don't see a mouse cursor on the language selection screen for 'rette 3.

'Course, I guess there's a reason we call it an AGI Mouse hack and not "standard AGI Mouse support." It's always possible a hacked program will stop working.

On the other hand, using NAGI is not a huge burden or anything (I actually have come to prefer it to running in DOS mode), so it's not like using AGI on XP is a big hassle or anything.