Touhou Games not Installing Correctly!?!?

PinkSweets · Post by **PinkSweets** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:43 am

Has this happened to anyone else?

I used the interwebs to download some Touhou games: Subterranean Animism and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody but for some odd reason I keep getting a message saying that the dll was not found meaning the installation failed somehow. The download goes right up to 100% and I have the game icon in a folder on my desktop looking like it's really there but no luck

Anyone know if there's something I'm missing or doing wrong? Maybe the site is F'd up!

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:47 am

You probably need to update directx 9c. What's the dll it's asking for?

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:54 am

Easily solved. Just google the .dll you're missing, place it in your System32 folder, and it will run without problem.

Observer · Post by **Observer** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:11 am

What Momijitsuki said. Also, as Taylor pointed, try installing the latest release of DirectX (June or August, can't remember which one) as it usually fixes most issues.

If the game works and you suddenly notice graphical errors, ghost images or simply stuff missing, that is a videocard driver related one apparently.

Mischief Maker · Post by **Mischief Maker** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:49 am

Well when I install off the CDs I get a similar error. So what I do is just copy the folder with the game data directly to the HD. Works just fine.

PinkSweets · Post by **PinkSweets** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:59 am

Thank you so much everybody! I will try re downloading the games tonight and then try out everyone's solution tomorrow and see what works. I'll post back here tomorrow to let you guys know how it went

Momijitsuki · Post by **Momijitsuki** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:01 am

PinkSweets wrote:Thank you so much everybody! I will try re downloading the games tonight and then try out everyone's solution tomorrow and see what works. I'll post back here tomorrow to let you guys know how it went

You shouldn't need to redownload them. Just place the .dll file you downloaded in your System32 folder and it should work.

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:06 am

Mischief Maker wrote:Well when I install off the CDs I get a similar error. So what I do is just copy the folder with the game data directly to the HD. Works just fine.

Do this in general, but make sure to unset read-only permissions from what you copy over to your HD. Otherwise you can get crashing, inability to save config or score, etc.

Latest directx is probably the issue here though.

worstplayer · Post by **worstplayer** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:57 am

You usually don't have to use system32, try placing it in same directory as game's .exe to avoid cluttering your windows.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:02 pm

worstplayer wrote:You usually don't have to use system32, try placing it in same directory as game's .exe to avoid cluttering your windows.

Cluttering folders you'll never ever see, causing no slowdown whatsoever, and helping to prevent future issues like this?

Put them in the System32 folder, folks.

worstplayer · Post by **worstplayer** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:00 pm

captpain wrote:
worstplayer wrote:You usually don't have to use system32, try placing it in same directory as game's .exe to avoid cluttering your windows.
Cluttering folders you'll never ever see, causing no slowdown whatsoever, and helping to prevent future issues like this?

Put them in the System32 folder, folks.

Future issues like other application requiring different version of same dll?

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:28 pm

worstplayer wrote:
captpain wrote:
worstplayer wrote:You usually don't have to use system32, try placing it in same directory as game's .exe to avoid cluttering your windows.
Cluttering folders you'll never ever see, causing no slowdown whatsoever, and helping to prevent future issues like this?

Put them in the System32 folder, folks.
Future issues like other application requiring different version of same dll?

Don't get smart with me.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:28 pm

Don't talk back. Remember, I'm the Captain of Pain.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:30 pm

But um, this is DirectX. Its DLLs are needed for hundreds of games; it's not some obscure junk that's not supposed to be there. What point is there in not putting them where they are installed anyway?

And by the way, this isn't really relevant here, but d3dx*.dll files are backward-compatible. For instance, if you have d3dx9_36.dll, you can make its copy, name it d3dx9_35.dll, and any program asking for the latter will work with it flawlessly.

That's also the reason they don't get updated, they're just being tucked together with the new versions despite being obsolete. An awkward way to ensure compatibility, but it works.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:41 pm

We don't actually know that these are DirectX dlls missing...

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:43 pm

There are no other DLLs I'm aware of that these two games ask for and the previous ones don't.

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:48 pm

moozooh wrote:There are no other DLLs I'm aware of that these two games ask for and the previous ones don't.

Ah, alright... I'm assuming we know this person has installed the previous games?

ok we probably don't, and also how would you know which dlls he has and doesn't have?

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:53 pm

I'm assuming that if the person wanted the answer to be more precise, they would make the question more detailed, either. ;)

captpain · Post by **captpain** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:16 pm

moozooh wrote:I'm assuming that if the person wanted the answer to be more precise, they would make the question more detailed, either.

Yeah, it is generally practice to actually say which DLLs are missing...
and also not to think that you need to redownload a game to reinstall it....