Adez
07-04-2011, 11:15 AM
For the last few months, Puzzle Quest 2 would not start for me. The problem came on suddenly after having worked for the first couple months after purchase.
I followed all of the directions given in the stickied threads as well as any info I could find by Google and the Namco official forums. Nothing worked.
I gave up until this morning when I looked at the game sitting in my Steam library - sitting there and not doing anything but reminding me of my wasted money. So, I decided to try again. I remembered a fix that had worked for another program I was messing with a while back. Lo and behold, with a little tweaking, it worked here too.
Enough narrative, here's what you do...
1. Go to your AppData folder (ex: c:\*username*\AppData)
2. Go to Local (c:\*username*\AppData\Local)
3. Find the Namco folder, don't open it, right click it. Click "Properties."
4. At the bottom of that page, UNCHECK "Read Only" and "Hidden." Click Okay. (If you repeat Step 3, you will see that folders remain Read-Only, so you may not have to do this, but it was something I did)
5. Windows will ask you to confirm. Apply the changes to all files and sub-folders and Click Okay.
6. Start Puzzle Quest 2
The game started up without issue after I did this. And now, I don't even feel like playing it :)
Maybe I will later.
I followed all of the directions given in the stickied threads as well as any info I could find by Google and the Namco official forums. Nothing worked.
I gave up until this morning when I looked at the game sitting in my Steam library - sitting there and not doing anything but reminding me of my wasted money. So, I decided to try again. I remembered a fix that had worked for another program I was messing with a while back. Lo and behold, with a little tweaking, it worked here too.
Enough narrative, here's what you do...
1. Go to your AppData folder (ex: c:\*username*\AppData)
2. Go to Local (c:\*username*\AppData\Local)
3. Find the Namco folder, don't open it, right click it. Click "Properties."
4. At the bottom of that page, UNCHECK "Read Only" and "Hidden." Click Okay. (If you repeat Step 3, you will see that folders remain Read-Only, so you may not have to do this, but it was something I did)
5. Windows will ask you to confirm. Apply the changes to all files and sub-folders and Click Okay.
6. Start Puzzle Quest 2
The game started up without issue after I did this. And now, I don't even feel like playing it :)
Maybe I will later.