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purbeast:
First let me preface this with I do actually own the real Friction arcade game/hardware lol.  And even with that I have a problem - it only works on one of my arcade monitors.  But that is besides the point here...

I have found 3 different versions of Friction and they all have the same problem.  I thought maybe it was related to DemulShooter but it's not because last night I found one that didn't even have DS with it and was basically the raw game, and I have the same exact issue.  And this was one that someone said it works "out of the box" for them.

What happens is I double click on the Friction.exe file, and ... nothing happens.  I get a spinner, and depending which release I do this on, it spins longer than the others, but still, nothing happens.

Nothing shows in the task manager at all, when I try to run any of the 3 versions.  It never shows anything pop up and disappear, or anything like that.  It's just like nothing at all happens.

I am on Windows 10 and I've tried running it in compatibility mode as well and it either throws a run time error, or it does the same thing and just spins, depending which version I am running.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on?  Has anyone seen this before and know what the fix is?

lilshawn:
i redid a friction machine with a new computer after it got damaged.

in my friction backup, i have:

the friction folder with the game

Nivida 368.81 videocard drivers

but also

"directx_jun2010_redist"
"dotNetFx40_full_x86_x64"


based on the files, i installed on winxp. to do so, i had to install directx and dot net to get it to work. you probably do with win10 as well, since the win10 baked in directx probably doesn't work with friction.

purbeast:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on July 06, 2023, 01:56:14 pm ---i redid a friction machine with a new computer after it got damaged.

in my friction backup, i have:

the friction folder with the game

Nivida 368.81 videocard drivers

but also

"directx_jun2010_redist"
"dotNetFx40_full_x86_x64"


based on the files, i installed on winxp. to do so, i had to install directx and dot net to get it to work. you probably do with win10 as well, since the win10 baked in directx probably doesn't work with friction.

--- End quote ---

Was your behavior that nothing happened when you clicked the executable?  I don't get any kind of error about DX or anything like that.

lilshawn:
i think initially it started out as it couldn't find DLL's and stuff like that. eventually tracked down the packs that had those files in it.

for instance, on my win10 machine right here, when it execute it right now it says it's wanting a file in the Direct3D included in DX9 to be installed.

I extracted the dx9 "directx_jun2010_redist" file... dumped them in a temp folder on the desktop... opened the folder and installed DXSETUP.

ran it again and it booted right up. apparently all the .nets are included with win10

purbeast:
Okay I will give that a try later tonight if I have time.

I am positive that one of my versions has that exact dll in the Friction directory though and it still behaves this same way.

I wish it would spit out some error so at least I would know what to look for.  But not having ANYTHING and it just doing "nothing" is making it hard to figure out. 

I've even ran it from the command prompt and it doesn't give any more info.

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