ian, why are you getting downvotes? It did exactly the same thing with me. So I was going to download d3dx9_39.dll and put it in the same folder so it could find it. However there are a lot more reviews now and they are saying it is timed. I am sorry but there is enough stress in my life already. So, full respect to the developers, but this is not for me sadly.

Vladimir,

Hi Vladimir, the reviews for the 12 in 1 pack on Steam that includes this game also say 'generally' that the games are sub par. For £0.40 per game I wouldn't expect anything spectacular. If you want a really good HOG for free, check out the HOG called Dreamscapes: The Sandman - Premium Edition, that's being given away for free via Indie Gala

https://freebies.indiegala.com/dreamscapes-the-sandman-premium-edition/

The Dreamscape franchise is one of my favorite (older) HOG's.

Therese Shellabarger,

Hi Therese,
It seems that the giveaway server won#t allow the link to work, so I've got rid of the code and you should be able to access the page directly. You do require a Indie Gala free account. Once it's been added to your library the button changes to a button that takes you to your Indie Gala libbrary. From there you have to select from the list along the top the Showcase Tab. Thius will then take you to aall the games you've added to the library from the showcase and freebies section. redirection to your Indie Gala Library. You then have to select the Showcase tab locaated along the top of the page (it's in a black toolbar along with tabs for the store, bundles community etc. Once your in the showcase page you should see a list of all the games you've added to your IG library. click on the one you want to download and then look to the right paanel and clock on the button with a windows icon. The game should then be downloadable. It's a DRM free version so can be installed any time on any computer.

I've purchased bundles and games from the Indie Gala store since it's beginning ten years ago; and apart from some issues with bundles I received during their happy hour sessions (where you payed for one bundle and received up to five copies of the bundle to give to friends) the site is a safe and genuine site where you can be guaranteed that any game you get from them will be safe to install.

They have recently revamped the site and I had issues accessing some of the unopened bundles I#ve purchased in the past, but they have all been added to my account now. It may be that they are still updating accounts?

Thomas,

Hi Thomas, I finally got the download after over 2 hours. I ran a speed test and the results were quite good compared to yours, so it must have something to do with the giveaway servers as my broadband speed is good.


Mine taking over 2 hours to download:



Your taking 43 minutes to download



The difference in speeds doesn't make sense unless it's the distance I am from the giveaway servers?

bassethound,

Some of the mini games are timed, but to the Hidden Object Scenes, not sure?
Will check later if I have time. I'm repairing my sons main computer at the moment. Had to buy a new motherboard after messing up the bios.

Whiterabbit-uk, Just had to drop a tease. Takes a might good techie to blow a bios given that most mobo have come with dual bios/UEFI. UEFI is even more stable.
PS Windows 10 version 2004: no 32-bit versions on new PCs anymore
by Martin Brinkmann on May 14, 2020 in Windows - Last Update: May 14, 2020 - 14 comments

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/05/14/windows-10-version-2004-no-32-bit-versions-on-new-pcs-anymore/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e2467%2ezh0ao07m8k%2e2kxn

beergas,

:) it was my son who messed it up. I told him not to bother updating the bios as it was working perfectly., somehow the Windows installation had become corrupted (boot record) and he'd failed to make a note of his windows activation code (he was still using the version that was given away for free a couple of years ago). Anyway, he'd contacted a friend who suggested while he was fixing things he might as well make sure he had the latest version of BIOS. End of MoBo. I've stripped the old board, cleaned the cpu and heat sink then reassembled everything. Now we have a problem not being able to get the monitor working. I suspect the new MoBo is faulty, but haven't had time to do any tests). I bought a test kit years ago after buying a faulty MoBo, so will find out whether it needs to be replaced again. In the mean time he's using his sisters desktop as I bought her a gaming laptop when she started Uni last September and she stopped using her desktop.

Ron, I'm getting it also....

Ron,

Hi Ron, please read my comment to Sieska; she had the same issue and following my suggestion to download Direct X v9 from Microsoft, got the game to work. I've provided links to the download via my reply to Sieska. Do let us know if it worked for you too. :)

granny483,

Hi Granny, please see my reply to Sieska. She followed my suggestion and got the game to work after having the same issue.

Just want to add that I downloaded again from a link in a different one of the three emails I got, and had the same problem. I do this every week, so it ain't me :).

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Expert_Gamer, I've deleted part of your comment as it is not acceptable and goes against the rules of this forum. In future please refrain from posting derogatory comments about other community members, thank you.

Sieska ,

The error message is telling you that Direct X v9 isn't available. You can download Direct X v9.0 from Microsoft. DX9.0 is packaged with Win 10, but sometimes with older games you may need to re-download it. If installing DX9.0 doesn't fix the issue, have the installation install directly into the games installed folder.

You can download the program HERE
or HERE.

Whiterabbit-uk, Success! It worked a treat - thank you very much.

Sieska , Glad to hear. :)

It's a common issue with older games that were from the Direct X 9.0c era or later, games that were designed with DX9.0 in mind despite Direct X being improved significantly over the years since.

Whiterabbit-uk, Thank you for this info. I was having the same problem. I'm running Windows 10 on a computer that used to have Windows 7. I found that when I downloaded Direct X 9 from Windows and ran the install, I was told that I couldn't run it because I didn't have the "proper" Windows installed on my computer. I ended up downloading the Direct X End-User Runtime Web Installer, used that and now the game is working fine. I'm mentioning that in case others are having trouble with trying to install just the Direct X 9......

granny483,

Thank you for the feedback. Glad you got it working. :)

Luise O'Reilly,

Hi Luise, please see my reply to Sieska

Whiterabbit-uk, are you crazy? Installing an older version of Direct X just to run this program?
This can really mess up a system. Why not update the program to run with the latest Direct X?