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Saturniid19 - Jul 21, 2005 - 1:31 pm

I bought Aspyr's "Leave the Lights On" game pack from a secondhand bookstore (this was an overstock, though, never been played), which comes with 3 different games. Two of the games run fine, but I can't play "Clive Barker's Undying". I've tried opening it in both OS X and OS 9 on my eMac, and it gives me the same problem in both situations. It shows the opening company logos, and then I see a loading screen, which lists the functions that are being performed at the time. Then loading stops on "Opening Package Level Mechanics" and I get the error message "SetFilePointer Failed" and I'm forced to quit.

I've searched for a patch and I have not found any updates, nor have I found any similar complaints about the game. I have no idea what to do!

This game looks really cool and I want to play it! Can someone help me out?

Craig

a2daj - Jul 21, 2005 - 2:41 pm

Hi Craig,

How big is the Undying folder after installation? Mine is approximately 589.6 MBs.

Do you have Read & Write access to the Undying folder? You can find both the size and Permissions information using Finder's Get Info.

Where did you install the Undying? In /Applications? Because that game needs to write inside the Undying folder, I recommend not installing it in /Applications. Mac OS X doesn't like applications writing to anything inside the /Applications file structure. I typically recommend people install games in a separate folder such as /Games (at the same level as the Applications folder, not within it) or even a separate drive/partition.

Saturniid19 - Jul 21, 2005 - 3:50 pm

Whoa, mine is only about 2.6 MB. That's a big difference!

I have Read & Write access.

I made a separate folder and moved the game folder there, but it didn't make any difference.

It seems like there was some problem installing it correctly. Should I get rid of the application and reinstall it into the new folder?

Thanks for the quick reply!

a2daj - Jul 21, 2005 - 4:09 pm

Go ahead and dump the old application and try installing into the new folder. Then make sure the newly installed folder contains more than a couple of megabytes of data A newly installed folder won't be the exact some file size as mine since mine contains some saved data. The Undying folder should contain the following files or folder (and maybe a few more)

Maps
Sounds
System
Textures
Undying
Undying OS X
Undying Read me


I haven't installed Undying in a long time. Does it give you install options such as what files you want to install? If so, I'd recommend doing a full install.

Saturniid19 - Jul 21, 2005 - 4:56 pm

I just reinstalled it and it works! Thanks!

a2daj - Jul 21, 2005 - 5:05 pm

Enjoy the game!