Help (unrecognized File Format)

deathmaster · Post by **deathmaster** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:19 pm

uhhhhh, can someone help me. I downloaded i demo of a game today, and it is in a "unreconizable format" anyone know what format is generally used, like what program is used to read it so i can install it? i know its not damaged files, i tried it in a different format and it opened, but it was a text document or something and wouldn't give me an option to install it

CarbineImpulse · Post by **CarbineImpulse** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:20 pm

what extension does the download have? for instance .exe or .zip or .rar etc... knowing that will enable us to tell you what you need.

Raptor522 · Post by **Raptor522** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:50 pm

Or what game, maybe?

Post by **ShadowHawk** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:26 am

ooookkkk. Definately need more info. Look at it from our point. You have a problem opening or installing some program with some extention on some operating system, but you were able to open it under some other extention with some other program. Pretty broad subject there to ask for specific help. That's like when my wife asks me where I've been and I say "Out with a person in a vehicle at sometime during the day somewhere in Texas. I told someone to tell you."

Blackcurrent · Post by **Blackcurrent** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:27 am

LOL, usualy installers are .exe files and they open them selfs. But there are some files that i don't know the extension of that can only be opened using Windows instaler, i think it's something like .msi, and this could be a problem if you'r using mac or linux

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:25 pm

Windows Installers are *.MSI files... But if you can't open that sort of files on Linux or MacOS, you might use InstallShield products to extract their contents and install them "manually"...

deathmaster · Post by **deathmaster** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:52 pm

OKAY, i think its an exe., and i can open it as a text document but what program needs to open it so it can be installed? i am sorry if i am stringy on information, its because i am not sure what is happining, which is why i am asking you

JAFFA · Post by **JAFFA** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:55 pm

.exe files automatically open themselves...i dont think there is a program to d/l to extract them...

deathmaster · Post by **deathmaster** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:42 pm

well then winrar is Diet Dr. Pepper stupid and i am getting it off my mechine. because thats the program thats can't open it

Darth-Derkie · Post by **Darth-Derkie** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:17 pm

You're trying to open a .exe with winrar?

Trans · Post by **Trans** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:32 pm

what game demo is it?

JAFFA · Post by **JAFFA** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:33 pm

that MAY be a slight problem...ur comp is buggred if u cant open .exe files.
WinRar is used for opening .zip or .rar compressed files.

CarbineImpulse · Post by **CarbineImpulse** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:34 pm

try just double clicking on the .exe

BeBop · Post by **BeBop** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:09 pm

Yeah, just double click on it. Don't have any program try to open it. .exe are exactly that. Executables. They run on their own. If your computer can't run an .exe then you may have bigger problems then a game demo.

If it's a .zip or .rar then its one of those manual installs (Like the Rome: Barbarian Invasion demo.... just gives you a bunch of files in a zip to be placed into certain directories you have to make..)

If you don't have a clue what it is, just right click it and click the properties tab. It should say Application under file type if its a .exe.

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