GE game demos?

[Mordekai]

I can't get GE Rally or Abuse game demos to run. I keep getting a loading error for both. I am currently using the GE 1.3.2 demo version.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[willg101]

I'm sorry, this may sound obvious, but did you unzip the files before loading the game?

[Mordekai]

Yes the files were unzipped by using Winzip.

Is there a particular file or location that these files should be placed in?
Do I need the paid version of GE to run these?

Thanks.

[Joshua Worth]

No, that's what the demos are for.

[makslane]

What's the error message?

[Mordekai]

For abuse its, File not found: data\laserShot*.bmp
For GE Rally its, Image load error: 'couldn't open data\red rally car turns right.gif' on 'data\red rally car turns right.gif' file

[ken tankerous]

Is there a particular file or location that these files should be placed in?
Do I need the paid version of GE to run these?

No, you can run them with the demo . . . well it works with my demo.
Another possible stupid question - did you keep the directory structure intake when unzipping (i.e. \GE Rally\data <- holds all the graphics and sound files)?

Ken

[Mordekai]

So I uninstalled/re-installed GE. Then I downloaded GE Rally again.
This is how it looks: Game Editor\GE Rally\data

I still get the same error message.

[Joshua Worth]

try going into the data directory and check if there is a file called "laserShot(anything).bmp"

[Mordekai]

A-ha!!!

Finally got them to run.

Thanks everyone.

[makslane]

How?

[Mordekai]

I was creating a folder, then unzipping the file, then I would drag/drop the unzipped files all at once into the folder that I created; this method doesn't work. So, by unzipping the file, then using the 'extract' function it works.