Cannot view AGS 3.1 manual (Vista? virus? help?)

[pslim]

I suspect this is not an issue with AGS, but you guys are brilliant and I think it's likely someone here will have some idea of what's gone wrong. I've sought answers on the internet, but everything I found was tied specifically to some program not involved in producing my problem.

I just installed AGS 3.1 and I pulled up the editor and opened the demo game. When I tried to take one of the links on the startup page to look at the manual, I got the following error message:

Cannot find 'mk@MSITStore:C:\PROGRA~1\ADVENT~2.1\ags-help.chm::/ags84.htm#UpgradeTo30'. Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.

That happens any time I try to choose to view any helpfile. The viewer itself says Adventure Game Studio 3.1 at the top, even though the address there seems to be for 2.1? No idea.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Trent R]

If you have Vista, I'd avoid installing certain things in your C\Program Files folder. Because of the administrator requirements (which actually don't bother me) it can be a pain to install things in that folder that you'll constantly be changing (like your Compiled, or other files--not just AGS).

As for the help files thing... I'm not sure. Do you have 2.1 or any other previous AGS installed? Try uninstalling it first, then installing 3.1 again.


Just ideas off the top of my idea. And that first paragraph probably didn't come out right...
~Trent

[tombom62]

I install It (on vista) to C:\ags and get the .rar, not exe installer.  And the manual..... I know there's an online version if that one doesn't work.... *googles* ah... here is the Wiki Manual:
http://www.americangirlscouts.org/agswiki/Contents_(manual)

[pslim]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I tried uninstalling it and remnants of previous AGS versions, and then installing from the .rar instead of the .exe, into c:\AGS instead of Program Files, but no change. D:

Thanks for the online manual link. I'll definitely end up using it that way if I can't find a solution, but I'm really bugged by this problem.

[MashPotato]

It doesn't sound like the same problem exactly, but I used to have trouble accessing the manual as well (in XP, though) and had to unblock it.  Here's the thread: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=26782.0

[Pumaman]

I suspect this is not an issue with AGS, but you guys are brilliant and I think it's likely someone here will have some idea of what's gone wrong. I've sought answers on the internet, but everything I found was tied specifically to some program not involved in producing my problem.

I just installed AGS 3.1 and I pulled up the editor and opened the demo game. When I tried to take one of the links on the startup page to look at the manual, I got the following error message:

Cannot find 'mk@MSITStore:C:\PROGRA~1\ADVENT~2.1\ags-help.chm::/ags84.htm#UpgradeTo30'. Make sure the path or Internet address is correct.

That happens any time I try to choose to view any helpfile. The viewer itself says Adventure Game Studio 3.1 at the top, even though the address there seems to be for 2.1? No idea.

This is an issue with the ZIP/RAR distribution because you have to unblock the file, as MashPotato says. However it shouldn't happen when you use the EXE installer, which is rather strange. Has anyone else had this problem after using the installer?