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Game not launching! Alternate solution

By Trip Fisk

If you tried the other solution and Hamilton's Great Adventure is still giving you trouble, try this

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Trip Fisk
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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

Posted

7 Aug, 2014 @ 11:37am

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Guide Index

Overview

Troubleshooting

Likely Culprit

Before we begin

The fix

Thank You Section

In Closing

Comments

Troubleshooting

So you used a 90% off coupon to buy Hamilton's Great Adventure for $1. You installed the game, tried to start it, and it doesn't work. At all. No matter what you do whether it be rebooting your computer, deleting and reinstalling the game, whatever, the only thing Hamilton's Great Adventure does is give you a "Do you want this program to make changes to your computer?" message and that's all it does. Game never starts. Never gives you an error message either. It doesn't do anything!

Likely Culprit

When you install Hamilton's Great Adventure, it also installs software called Physx that it requires to run. I'm no computer expert or programming genius so I have no idea what is causing the problem exactly. I do know enough that the most common problem for Hamilton's not starting deals with this Physx program. Looking into the issue, it wasn't too long ago that certain builds of Physx were problematic and caused a lot of headaches for people.

In my case, after I installed Hamilton's Great Adventure, it corrupted Physx on my computer so badly, I couldn't install the latest version of Physx. The installer would crash immediately!

Before we begin

Check to make sure your video card has the latest driver!

The fix

Here's the step by step solution I used that both allowed me to fix my borked install of Physx and get Hamilton's Great Adventure to finally work. My OS is Windows 7 64-bit

1: go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx-9.13.1220-driver.html and download the latest version of Physx.

2. Click Start -> Type CMD -> Right click on CMD from the result -> Click Run as Administrator
Run the following commands one at a time and press enter to execute:

cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem

for %i in (*.dll) do regsvr32 -s %i

for %i in (*.exe) do %i /regserver

3. Close all windows and reboot the computer

4. Once restarted, run the physx installer. If given the option, uninstall physx.

5. Run installer again and install the latest Physx

6. Try running Hamilton's Great Adventure again.

Thank You Section

I wouldn't have been able to fix Physx and Hamilton's Great Adventure without running into the following thread:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=375401&page=2

extra big thanks to that Simtechray guy.

In Closing

I hope this helps get Hamilton's running for you.

if it works or it doesn't, let me know in the comments section. Thanks!

8 Comments

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daimonduff 5 Dec, 2022 @ 8:07am

Thanks a lot!! It really helped! :)
I've installed the latest Physx version and voila!!! :D

¤ βℓооđч ¤ Nico-Kun! 22 Aug, 2020 @ 3:03pm

Thanks for this guide! Managed to get the game running on Windows 10, with no issues so far.

Kinda dumb that I need Nvidia software to run a game when I have an AMD card, but whatever.

Trip Fisk [author] 17 Oct, 2016 @ 1:04pm

Yes, my guide was written before Windows 10 ever existed. The game not running at all is a very common problem. Developer has obviously abandoned game and won't fix it themselves. As far as I know, the game still has and attempts to install a corrupt version of PhysX that is so broken, that it will run and lock up so hard you have to do special tricks to even be able to uninstall it.

Given the game actually starts and runs for you, you obviously don't have that problem. I'd say try tinkering with compatibility options. If you try running the game as an older version of Windows, it may run properly for you.

If you need a reference on how to do this, go to http://www.windowscentral.com/how-make-old-desktop-apps-run-again-windows-10

HAKUBO★38 13 Oct, 2016 @ 12:22pm

My OS is Windows 10 and I have followed the instructions. Despite doing it right, the Physx installer tells me that I have the latest version of Physx and installation quits. In other words, I have the GTX 1070, and it seems like I didn't really need to uninstall Physx at all. No compatibility is required. The only problem I get for now is just no sound, but I found the solution that fixes the 'No Sound' issue. I guess this guide is only used for Windows 7 and/or 8 users.

But thanks for making the guide by the way. I'm happy to own the game after using a 90% coupon yesterday.

Darksoul 31 Jul, 2015 @ 10:54am

thank you

DStar7 10 Jun, 2015 @ 12:18am

thanks for the guide! i only had to go to Nvidia and download/install latest Physx version and the game run.

Trip Fisk [author] 26 Feb, 2015 @ 9:54am

holy crap, someone actually read this
holy holy crap, it actually helped someone

Ronixis 26 Feb, 2015 @ 5:58am

Thanks!
Its working now

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