How to get a refund - Now not required thanks to Pluto

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All well and good. I download the Windows version...only to find out afterwards that Vista is the base O/S requirement, and that the game installer won't even run unless you are using Vista base minimum.

I'm running XP. -_-
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Hey Moirai,

you can still play on windows XP with a little bit of patience and persistence. I had exactly your problem and GOG was advertising the game as XP compatible which didn't help .

I'm not sure where you got your version (got mine from Humble) so the instructions below might need adjustments. Also you cannot complain to Frictional about problems as XP is unsupported. It's been a couple of weeks since I did the below so instructions might be spotty but I can try to help if needed.

Anyway, first to bypass the OS check, you need to get the Inno Setup Unpacker (http://innounp.sourceforge.net/). With it extract the content of the installer. For me it was something like:

innounp.exe -x amnesia_amfp_1.01.exe

Make a folder before running the command. You should end up with a {app} folder and one file called install_script.iss.

You can move the content (install_files, manual and redist) of {app} one level and delete it when empty.

At this stage, the game cannot run because it is missing a starting config file for the Launcher.exe setup program. To fix this:

copy redist/config/default_main_settings,1.cfg

to My Documents/Amnesia/Pig as main_settings.cfg

(I don't remember if the folder was created the first time I tried to run the Launcher otherwise create it manually)

Then try to run Launcher.exe for the redist folder and it should allow you to setup your preferences. Once this is done, you should be fine...or not.

The below is only useful if you have sound issues.

I encountered a weird issue with sounds. First I had no music at the game welcome screen but still had environmental sounds in the game until I tried to answer the first "phone" call in the mansion and then game speed slowed down to a crawl. Quitting the game at that stage will leave a black screen and you'll have to CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill it.

I tried the tweaks found on the forums (adjusting number of sound channels etc...) to no avail so I tried to update the OpenAL library supplied with the game.

I used the one found at:

http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html

extract libOpenAL32 and soft_oal.dll to the redist folder AFTER backing up your original OpenAL then rename soft_oal.dll to OpenAL32.dll

Rerun Launcher to adjust your sound preferences.

Since this "upgrade" I experienced the issue not so often and was able to play the game fully with all sounds working.

Performance wise it was ok with only occasional stutterings (I have a dual core 2.53 G with 3 Gb RAM and a GS8800).

So the game is playable on XP.

Good luck and enjoy if you decide to cancel the refund !