I'm aware that some people have had problems with this and also not everyone reads the TFgames thread which has provided some solutions to this so I thought it would be helpful to put up a post here. While this is primarily for Windows 10 it may well help with other versions of Windows. Not going to be helpful for those on Macs, which I don't have any experience with myself, I have however heard from people who have got it working using Parallels Desktop running Windows 7 so it is technically possible to do.
For people getting the 'Sorry, this RAGS game file is unreadable'. Download SQL Server CE 3.5 and try running the game again. With this game, I wanted to get the game mechanics hashed out first, try some new things and get the gameplay great before getting the actual plot and player paths through the game. One bonus of having some other RAGS projects, I can add some of elements I liked from my other games and plop it down in this one. File hasil download di nicoblog terpisah-pisah jadi Cara Menggabungkan File Yang di Pecah Dengan Winrar baca di Tempat Download Game PS3 ISO – Free itulah beberapa situs untuk download game psp, ps2, ps3 sampai jumpa di postingan selanjutnya gan. Articel menarik lainnya.
If you can't get the link on the RAGS game site to work for 2.4.16.0 I've rehosted a download link on mediafire here.
There's are two main things that you can try;
-First you can try installing the SQL which RAGS needs to run which you can find here.
-The other is that RAGS needs WMP installed which depending on your version can be found in these locations;
How To Run Rags Games
Once downloaded make sure WMP is actually installed and enabled. You may need to go to Start -> Control panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn a Windows feature on or off -> expand the 'media' folder -> make sure Windows Media Player is checked
A couple of other suggestions;
Make sure you're using the right RAGS version for the game you're trying to run. As of No Haven 0.803 I believe I've worked out enough of the kinks so that 3.0.60. should also work and may well be more compatible with your device if everything else suggested on here fails. There will be formatting issues, and you will need to update the text to html using the in game tools, but there is an upside that the game is significantly nippier. You can get a copy of 3.0.60 player I've rehosted here.
Do not open the file directly from your browser, save it to disk and open from that folder separately.
Make sure it is a folder you have full rights to, say your Documents folder
If you are in a country that does not use a decimal place for number, say Germany that uses a comma (ie 1,23 not 1.23) then RAGS games can badly fail and the only solution is to change your locale to a country that uses a decimal place
I hope that helps if you've been having problems and thank you to weird, greyelf,
cmacleod42, anon and karazelle for this information.
Performance Improvements
Now I've not tried this myself as RAGS player has always been pretty responsive on my system, but if you want to take some extra steps these additional fixes could well help out.
Quoting the post by Figment on Hypnopics:
Found a huge performance improvement for .NET BinarySerializer that vastly improves the performance of Rags saves for No Haven. It sped up loading a game save from 50 seconds to 10 seconds on my computer and appears to be very safe. The main requirement is that you have .NET 4.7.2 installed which I believe you have to install separately.
.NET 4.7.2 Offline Installer
.NET 4.7.2 for Windows 7 from catalog
Here is an article about the change itself: Serialization Performance Update With .NET 4.7.2
Here is a file for that for Rags.exe config. Just replace the existing config wherever you installed Rags. Rags.exe.config [mega]
…
I cannot fix everything in Rags but these seem reasonably safe. Also this should work for any Rags game and not just No Haven.
Patched Executables Download:
Rags_2.4.16_SlightlyFasterPatch_v1.7z [mega]
Warning: The patched files might cause problems that I'm not aware of so use at your own risk. Make backups and all that. The other config change should be totally safe.
Rags Download
To emphasise the warning no support on this will be offered and these are to be installed at your on risk. They're also not going to be relevent I'd guess if you're using
Rags Game File Unreadable
3.0.60. They have though be used and found to be good by cmacleod42 who is someone I trust so there's one endorsement.
I'm aware that some people have had problems with this and also not everyone reads the TFgames thread which has provided some solutions to this so I thought it would be helpful to put up a post here. While this is primarily for Windows 10 it may well help with other versions of Windows. Not going to be helpful for those on Macs, which I don't have any experience with myself, I have however heard from people who have got it working using Parallels Desktop running Windows 7 so it is technically possible to do.
For people getting the 'Sorry, this RAGS game file is unreadable'. Download SQL Server CE 3.5 and try running the game again. With this game, I wanted to get the game mechanics hashed out first, try some new things and get the gameplay great before getting the actual plot and player paths through the game. One bonus of having some other RAGS projects, I can add some of elements I liked from my other games and plop it down in this one. File hasil download di nicoblog terpisah-pisah jadi Cara Menggabungkan File Yang di Pecah Dengan Winrar baca di Tempat Download Game PS3 ISO – Free itulah beberapa situs untuk download game psp, ps2, ps3 sampai jumpa di postingan selanjutnya gan. Articel menarik lainnya.
If you can't get the link on the RAGS game site to work for 2.4.16.0 I've rehosted a download link on mediafire here.
There's are two main things that you can try;
-First you can try installing the SQL which RAGS needs to run which you can find here.
-The other is that RAGS needs WMP installed which depending on your version can be found in these locations;
How To Run Rags Games
Once downloaded make sure WMP is actually installed and enabled. You may need to go to Start -> Control panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn a Windows feature on or off -> expand the 'media' folder -> make sure Windows Media Player is checked
A couple of other suggestions;
Make sure you're using the right RAGS version for the game you're trying to run. As of No Haven 0.803 I believe I've worked out enough of the kinks so that 3.0.60. should also work and may well be more compatible with your device if everything else suggested on here fails. There will be formatting issues, and you will need to update the text to html using the in game tools, but there is an upside that the game is significantly nippier. You can get a copy of 3.0.60 player I've rehosted here.
Do not open the file directly from your browser, save it to disk and open from that folder separately.
Make sure it is a folder you have full rights to, say your Documents folder
If you are in a country that does not use a decimal place for number, say Germany that uses a comma (ie 1,23 not 1.23) then RAGS games can badly fail and the only solution is to change your locale to a country that uses a decimal place
I hope that helps if you've been having problems and thank you to weird, greyelf,
cmacleod42, anon and karazelle for this information.
Performance Improvements
Now I've not tried this myself as RAGS player has always been pretty responsive on my system, but if you want to take some extra steps these additional fixes could well help out.
Quoting the post by Figment on Hypnopics:
Found a huge performance improvement for .NET BinarySerializer that vastly improves the performance of Rags saves for No Haven. It sped up loading a game save from 50 seconds to 10 seconds on my computer and appears to be very safe. The main requirement is that you have .NET 4.7.2 installed which I believe you have to install separately.
.NET 4.7.2 Offline Installer
.NET 4.7.2 for Windows 7 from catalog
Here is an article about the change itself: Serialization Performance Update With .NET 4.7.2
Here is a file for that for Rags.exe config. Just replace the existing config wherever you installed Rags. Rags.exe.config [mega]
…
I cannot fix everything in Rags but these seem reasonably safe. Also this should work for any Rags game and not just No Haven.
Patched Executables Download:
Rags_2.4.16_SlightlyFasterPatch_v1.7z [mega]
Warning: The patched files might cause problems that I'm not aware of so use at your own risk. Make backups and all that. The other config change should be totally safe.
Rags Download
To emphasise the warning no support on this will be offered and these are to be installed at your on risk. They're also not going to be relevent I'd guess if you're using
Rags Game File Unreadable
3.0.60. They have though be used and found to be good by cmacleod42 who is someone I trust so there's one endorsement.
In short, Rags is a free game engine to create visual novel and text based adventure games. Lately we have seen quite a few games made on this engine. It is probably easier to access compared to Ren'Py. I dont know. Anyway, this is a small tutorial that is about how to play a file with .rags extension. Here is everything you need to play Rags games.
Prerequisites: These are windows components you need to run Rags games properly. Those are usually provided with Rags installer but we are just including them to be safe.
- .NET 2.0 Service Pack 2 – All versions included
- Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 – It comes as both x86 and x64 versions (in the same package), but if your windows is 64bit then you have to install both 64bit and 32bit versions.
Rags Download Links: The download links can be found in official site listed below. However we have also added some mirror in case the site is down or something.
- Download from official site.
- RAGS Suite Beta 3.0.59 ZIP Installation file.
- RAGS Suite Stable 2.4.16 ZIP Installation file.
- Rags Non-Install Portable Versions.
Then Run the Rags program and open your .rags files.
Now here is some instruction for the error 'This RAGS game is unreadable '. I found this in a forum and it is 3 years old. I dont know if they fixed this problem or if this method solve the issue. Let me know in comment section.
- Turn on Control Panel > Programs > Turn Feature on and off > .Net framework 3.5.1
- Turn on Control Panel > Programs > Turn Feature on and off > Media Features > Windows Media Player
- Download Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 2 for Windows Desktop : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=5783 First install x86 then x64, as instructed.
- Reboot.
- Download RagsSetup.2.4.16.zip from mirror link http://www.4shared.com/postDownload/R-ami31Cce/RagsSetup2416.html
- Click on RagsSetup.
- First error message: 'This setup requires the .NET Framework version 4.0'. Install dotNetFx40_Client_setup.exe, reboot computer, click on RagsSetup.
- Same error message. Click on 'setup' rather than 'RagsSetup', and it installs .NET Framework on its own.
- It should Say that it's installing Rags x86.
How To Run Rag Files
So there you have it
