| Subject: No Desktop Icons/ Startup Selection |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.games |
| Date: 7/11/2008 11:51:06 AM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?UmFpblN0cnlrZQ==?= [Email Address Protection] |
Every time I install a game now I can't get a desktop icon. I try to make one through the start menu but can't find the damn thing ANYWERE. Ive had this problem with the following: Crysis Frontlines Fules of War Asassin's Creed Gears of War The only way I can run them is if I have the disk. It recognizes it when I put in the disk, but it will act as if the game was never installed if I try and look for it through the C drive. How can I fix this? |
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| Subject: Re: No Desktop Icons/ Startup Selection |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.games |
| Date: 7/14/2008 8:22:26 AM |
| From: "Andy [YaYa]" [Email Address Protection] |
"David" <not@home> wrote in news:uLQY64B5IHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > "RainStryke" <RainStryke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DC67DCD9-2C29-48E6-8ACB-8F3EF7A8E1FB@microsoft.com... >> >> >> "Frenchy" wrote: >> >>> RainStryke wrote: >>> > Every time I install a game now I can't get a desktop icon. I try >>> > to make one >>> > through the start menu but can't find the damn thing ANYWERE. >>> > How can I fix this? > Is there any reason your not using the games folder thingy? > For new games like Assassins Creed just click the Start Orb>Games.. > They should be listed in there.... You can't fix it per say, Windows wants you to use the Games Explorer. You know how your game package says "Games for Windows" thats like a marketing/licensing/development thing that Microsoft does, that is very similar to making a console game. Console games require you to follow or suggest you follow rules before the game is approved "Given Nintendo's Seal of Approval", or branded as a licensed PlayStation game or whatever. Games for Windows is like that. MS gives guidelines and recommendations to game developers that covers everything from how their installer/uninstaller should work, to how long the game should stay at the main menu before starting a non-interactive demo. If a dev company chooses to go ahead with something like this, they submit their game to Microsoft and they either approve the game if it plays nice, or they reject it and recommend fixes. When the game passes, it gets the "Games for Windows" brand and usually advertisement backing, it's basically a good way to ensure the game gets visibility. Look at Sins of a Solar Empire. EA has their own Certification that they run in house for their games, which is why EA PC games don't have "Games for Windows" on the box. So this is all important, because MS wants to organize all your games into the Games Explorer. Thus, one of the "Requirements" to get GFW approval is you can only make icons in the Games Explorer window, and not on the desktop or start menu. You can't fix it, but you can make a shortcut on your desktop, right click somewhere, choose New and Shortcut. Fill in the path to the game executeable and press finish. Or just use the Games Explorer. or install XP. -- -A. |
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