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Title: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Kanako Yasaka on December 26, 2009, 02:02:58 AM
None of the games will even start up. UFO will show the loading screen, but that's it. ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou on Windows 7
Post by: Matsuri on December 26, 2009, 02:07:34 AM
I never had any issues. Do you still have the necessary drivers, and are you using AppLocale/did you set your locale to Japanese?
Title: Re: Touhou on Windows 7
Post by: Kanako Yasaka on December 26, 2009, 02:11:17 AM
I figured that AppLocale wouldn't be necessary but I might as well try it.
Title: Re: Touhou on Windows 7
Post by: Matsuri on December 26, 2009, 02:12:13 AM
Frankly it's easier to just set your locale to Japanese and be done with it :P
Title: Re: Touhou on Windows 7
Post by: Kanako Yasaka on December 26, 2009, 02:45:58 AM
That worked, thanks. I wish I could delete my own thread.
Title: Re: Touhou on Windows 7
Post by: Matsuri on December 26, 2009, 03:12:49 AM
Why? This could actually work brilliantly for those who are switching to Windows 7 in the future. I almost feel like making this a sticky topic, but I'll leave that up to lgb for now.

Actually, I'll sticky it after all. If lgb (or anyone else, for that matter) doesn't like it, they're absolutely free to remove it.

Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: LuciChan on April 15, 2010, 09:25:10 PM
I have windows 7 and I have troubleshoot. I already put my location to japanese and everytime I open danmaku. It says that the program is experiencing troubleshoot
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: gabrielwoj on August 15, 2010, 06:16:30 PM
Same here, but only on Touhou 12.5!
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Sejha on November 12, 2010, 12:49:45 AM
You need to run it as an administrator, or turn off the function completely. You do not need Applocale for any of the Touhou games at all.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: 7TC7 on December 02, 2010, 12:41:51 PM
My english patched MoF and SA suddenly stopped working. The not patched .exe file still starts up without any issues, as do the patched and unpatched config.exe.
This happened pretty recently, not directly after me changing to Windows 7, but not too much after that either, so I consider it beeing some Win7 issue. Any ideas?

I also tried repatching the games, but that didn't change anything. All other games still work patched and unpatched.

Edit: Solved the problem by redownloading the patches and patching again after deleting all files related to the old patch.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: tockoma on February 20, 2011, 02:14:27 PM
Hello! I'm currently using Windows 7....Toshiba, and I've found that, on rare occasions, SA and UFO will suddenly not work.

The little icon at the bottom shows up, but not the actual window-in short, it starts up completely normal except for the window that I have to use to see and play on, ahaha~

Actually, it's quite funny-if you hover over the icon on the toolbar, it'll show a  small 'preview' screen as if you can 'restore it', but it won't let you. So, naturally, I've been playing 'let's play touhou without seeing where I'm going.' Fun times.

I've been deleting the cfg. file on the games, and it usually seems to fix the problem(with the downside of having to re-set the volume and the chance of it occurring again) . my question, though, is if there's a reason behind this? and has anyone else faced this problem to find a more permanent solution?

thanks guys! :'D
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Romantique Tp on February 20, 2011, 02:51:40 PM
Are you playing in windowed mode ? If so try fullscreen.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: ふとくていなねこじょおう on February 22, 2011, 01:34:23 AM
My patched EoSD freezes in the startup screen for some reason. It worked fine before, but then it suddenly stopped working. I uninstalled then reinstalled everything, but it still won't work. And don't even get me started on the unpatched one.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Cadmas on February 28, 2011, 05:32:43 PM
I got W7 and its balls.
Keeps saying I'm missing various d3dx9 files which I installed, but it won't read them or something.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc110/Cadmas/susk.png


Downloading the full direct x 9 fixed it. Downloading single dll files is really stupid. Lesson learned. 
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Radica on June 12, 2011, 11:15:35 PM
I got W7 and its balls.
Keeps saying I'm missing various d3dx9 files which I installed, but it won't read them or something.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc110/Cadmas/susk.png


Downloading the full direct x 9 fixed it. Downloading single dll files is really stupid. Lesson learned.

What file do you need from microsoft's site and install for the "full DX9"? I'm preparing to install windows 7 64 bit on a new computer in the next few days and I'm planning my reinstallation of touhou games. I plan to install them all fresh and freshly patch/english patch them. I hope that's all I have to do. I might set my locale as japanese, where is the setting for that in 7 as opposed to XP? I don't think I'll try applocale for the same reason I didn't on XP - I use the japanese typing bar within explorer / ime pad and the only way for full support of it and japanese text in a few of my programs was to set my regional language options to japanese. And does annex86 perform properly on 7 for the pre windows games?
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 12, 2011, 11:47:39 PM
Hello! I'm currently using Windows 7....Toshiba, and I've found that, on rare occasions, SA and UFO will suddenly not work.

The little icon at the bottom shows up, but not the actual window-in short, it starts up completely normal except for the window that I have to use to see and play on, ahaha~

Actually, it's quite funny-if you hover over the icon on the toolbar, it'll show a  small 'preview' screen as if you can 'restore it', but it won't let you. So, naturally, I've been playing 'let's play touhou without seeing where I'm going.' Fun times.

I've been deleting the cfg. file on the games, and it usually seems to fix the problem(with the downside of having to re-set the volume and the chance of it occurring again) . my question, though, is if there's a reason behind this? and has anyone else faced this problem to find a more permanent solution?

thanks guys! :'D

Reinstall the game, otherwise you're stuck with fullscreen. Don't know why this happens exactly.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on July 06, 2011, 04:24:08 AM
SWR English is simply not loading. The mouse shows the "loading" animation, and I can run SWR Japnese just fine. It didn't even work when I reinstalled everything from the CD. I've got both th105.exe and th105e.exe running in XP SP3 compatibility and Administrator mode, and still nothing's working.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on July 06, 2011, 12:13:12 PM
Are you sure the patch installer you have works okay?  Try re-downloading and reinstalling it (from a fresh SWR installation).
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on July 06, 2011, 06:12:04 PM
Yes, insofar as it's the exact same file that worked perfectly on XP. And I just went through reinstalling SWR and all its patches, so yes this is a fresh installation.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on July 06, 2011, 06:31:47 PM
Try (re)installing DirectX 9 (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=35).
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on July 06, 2011, 07:59:08 PM
Okay, as I said, the Japanese version works fine, but ...

Okay, that installer said "a newer or equivalent version is already installed."
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Dorakyura on July 07, 2011, 01:56:06 PM
I had the same problem...

Try (re)installing DirectX 9 (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=35).

this and try "Compatibility Mode" set to XP SP3

Every English Patch is working on my pc, except th7.5

can you take a look into the windows application logfiles? You should see some information about what is missing or crashed, when you run an application
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on July 07, 2011, 04:08:33 PM
this and try "Compatibility Mode" set to XP SP3
I've got both th105.exe and th105e.exe running in XP SP3 compatibility and Administrator mode,

As for the Windows event, here's all I was able to find:

Quote from: Error
Faulting application name: th105.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x48d7847b
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x71afff7c
Faulting process id: 0x944
Faulting application start time: 0x01cc3cbed258bac7
Faulting application path: D:\<SNIP>\10.5 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody\th105.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 11452cff-a8b2-11e0-a828-e0cb4e5afed8
Quote from: Information
Fault bucket 1405850924, type 1
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: th105.exe
P2: 0.0.0.0
P3: 48d7847b
P4: StackHash_0a9e
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: c0000005
P8: 71afff7c
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\<SNIP>\AppData\Local\Temp\WERBD00.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\<SNIP>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_th105.exe_6713ecb6159728ae87bf6df23161a10c7be742d_1372d447

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 11452cff-a8b2-11e0-a828-e0cb4e5afed8
Report Status: 0
So ... running th105e.exe is apparently causing th105.exe to silently crash ... even though th105.exe works fine by itself.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Dorakyura on July 08, 2011, 06:34:42 AM
well, that's exactly the same error I get with 7.5 english patch, I havn't been able to fix it yet
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Dizzy H. "Muffin" Muffin on July 08, 2011, 06:37:53 AM
Now that I check it, I can't get IaMP's English patch to work, either, and IaMP-Japanese works fine~

EDIT: I'm pretty much throwing science at the wall to see what sticks now, but I tried opening th105e.exe with AppLocale, and there was no change.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Aya Squawkermaru on July 23, 2011, 03:27:23 AM
Right, so I can't get Touhou 12 to start up. I've tried with my Locale set to Japan, and I've tried with both the original .exe file and the english patched version. I'm assuming that it's the same error message, so here's the error I get in English.

(http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/3232/touhou12error.png)

I looked in the file, and lo and behold, I don't have a th12.cfg file. So, I uninstalled everything, put the disc back in, and retried. Still no th12.cfg file.

So, either this thing isn't installing properly, or my disc is lacking the config file. Any help is appreciated!

Edit: Having the same exact problem with Touhou 11, except with th11.cfg instead of th12.cfg.

Edit again: Wouldn't you know it, same problem with Touhou 9.

I'm thinking this is way too many coincidences for it to be defective disks, so it's got to be my computer. But, Touhou 10 installed just fine... BUt now, even it's not working.

So, for whatever reason, my computer is destroying config files. Or something.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on July 23, 2011, 04:59:36 AM
The config file is automatically created by the game itself.  You may want to try running the game in Compatibility mode (for WinXP SP3).  Also, check in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\<progfiles>\<touhou folder>\<game folder>\ for the config files, they should be created there instead.  If you have a 64-bit OS "progfiles" should be "Program Files (x86)", if not it'll just be "Program Files".  Also, the "touhou" and "game" folders should be the same text as the folders the game installed into (could be mojibake).
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Aya Squawkermaru on July 23, 2011, 05:09:55 AM
The config file is automatically created by the game itself.  You may want to try running the game in Compatibility mode (for WinXP SP3).  Also, check in c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\<progfiles>\<touhou folder>\<game folder>\ for the config files, they should be created there instead.  If you have a 64-bit OS "progfiles" should be "Program Files (x86)", if not it'll just be "Program Files".  Also, the "touhou" and "game" folders should be the same text as the folders the game installed into (could be mojibake).

Unfortunately, I don't seem to have an AppDate file in my username file. But, the thing is, I can get to Programfiles (x86) just from the C drive, which is where the games have been installing, and the .cfg files aren't in the game folders, unless I'm somehow missing it.

Also, how does one run compatibility mode in Windows 7?

What's odd about the whole thing is that Touhou 10 was running just fine until today. I'm inclined to believe it's some sort of virus, so I've been running Avira and Mbam for an hour or so.

...Although, it would be nice if that weren't the case.  :ohdear:

I do appreciate the help.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on July 23, 2011, 05:29:52 AM
Umm, "username" is your username in Windows, then look for AppData.  This is where your config files should really be stored on a Vista/Win7 system, not in the same folder as the game program.

Right-click the game's shortcut on your desktop and click Properties, you should have a bunch of different options to mess will.  You can also try running the game as Administrator too.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Aya Squawkermaru on July 23, 2011, 05:39:16 AM
Umm, "username" is your username in Windows, then look for AppData.  This is where your config files should really be stored on a Vista/Win7 system, not in the same folder as the game program.

Yeah, that's where I was looking. There was no AppData folder.

Fortunately, however, your other suggestion of running it as the Administrator seems to have worked. Thanks!
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on July 23, 2011, 05:52:24 AM
Yay!  Glad that helped.  o/
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Kumori on August 28, 2011, 07:57:14 PM
DriverX says "Failed to create D3D device" and then I get a regular error saying "Failed to initialize". I've installed this on an XP computer the same way and it worked fine. What do I do?
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on August 28, 2011, 08:53:23 PM
Did you make sure to install the DirectX 9 installer that came with the game?  If not, you can download it from here (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=35).
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Kumori on August 29, 2011, 06:29:25 AM
When I try to install it, it says:

"DriverX setup has determined that a newer or equivalent version of DirectX has been installed already. No installation is necessary."

Should I just uninstall my DriverX and then replace it with that one?
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Skyler on October 09, 2011, 01:37:49 PM
So my English patched version of EoSD was working fine until I switched it to windowed mode to record something. I recorded it and then quit the game afterwards, but since then I haven't been able to open it properly; it gets to the loading screen and then crashes. This means I can't switch it to fullscreen either. Help?
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: MasterProX on December 30, 2011, 01:58:05 AM
[REDACTED]
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on December 30, 2011, 01:44:06 PM
Delete the configs (th11.cfg and th12.cfg) and try again.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: MasterProX on December 30, 2011, 08:09:41 PM
[REDACTED]
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Momiji on December 31, 2011, 04:11:04 PM
Running them from your flash drive is a totally different setup, you should probably copy your configs into the game folders on the flash drive.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Karisa on January 13, 2013, 10:07:13 AM
For some reason if I load TD in Windows 7, it has no music, just sound effects, and certain actions, such as pausing, cause the game to crash entirely. So it's basically unplayable. It also displays a "Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?" message before loading, when the other games don't.

This occurs with both the original Japanese and English-patched versions. I've already tried removing the .cfg file, removing the entire AppData th13 folder, running it as administrator, and loading in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP3 and a few others. Nothing seems to make a difference.

Any idea why this is? All the other Touhou games I have run without any problems.

Edit: Seems the thbgm.dat file vanished when I transferred the Touhou games over. No idea why. I retrieved it from the old computer and it's working now.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Amethyst on February 18, 2013, 08:04:06 PM
Well, this might be irrelevant and also really easy to solve, but I've been having a problem getting any of the games to load after I recently got them on my new Toshiba laptop.

The game starts, but they only start in fullscreen. I see the loading screen flicker, but then it all goes black and I'm sent right back to my desktop with the icon on the taskbar as if the window was open. I can't figure out what to do, and I was really looking forward to playing Touhou again on my new laptop because my old one decided to break. When I opened TH08, I heard the title screen music playing, and I heard one little *blip* that you hear when selecting an option, but try as I might I just couldn't open it.

Does anyone have any advice on this? It's been bugging me all day.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Drake on February 18, 2013, 10:16:52 PM
If I'm to guess, if you're using Windows Vista and on you can alt-tab and you will probably see the window in there. Clicking the icon doesn't do anything. Switching the the application from task manager doesn't do anything.

Just try reinstalling them first. I've had this problem once, a few other people have had this problem, but none of them have ever had the same solutions so it's hard to tell what will work.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: zemoo on February 19, 2013, 03:03:29 AM
I'm having trouble running any of my games on my laptop. I'm using the bootcamp partition of my mac, Windows 7 64bit.
EoSD loads the background of the game menu (where it says start, extra start, practice start, etc.) but I don't see any words. I can get to character selection, but I only get the background of the character selection screen, even when I start the first level all I see is the character selection background. I can hear all the sound effects, but from what I can hear it seems the game is running really quickly. I can hear the menu switch to the demo immediately after taking my finger off of any button and the demo runs really quickly too, the screen doesn't change when it goes to demo mode either.

7-9 are similar graphically as 6 (only see backgrounds and no gameplay), but seem to be running at the normal speed

10 onward just stop responding while loading. 

They have all worked on my desktop, which is also windows 7. I am probably just missing some drivers, but would like to know if there is a precedent for this kind of error before I shell out for Bootcamp drivers, which apple does not offer freely.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Imosa on March 15, 2013, 03:49:32 AM
My computer has started crashing while playing Imperishable Night. It never did this until last weekend and now it's doing it consistently.
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Komotz on July 10, 2015, 02:43:47 AM
Anyone have the issue of massive screen flashing while even trying to start up?
Title: Re: Touhou not working on Windows 7? Click here.
Post by: Lunatic_Reimu on September 04, 2015, 08:25:32 PM
Hello,
I'm planning on buying a stronger laptop this month so I can start recording my 1CCs (such precious memories :)), and I was planning on getting either Windows 7 64 Bit, or Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit. Will all the Touhous (PC98 included), Seihous, and Danmakufu work with both these versions of Windows? Thanks for any help!  :3
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Post by: Lollipop on September 04, 2015, 08:57:52 PM
Hello,
I'm planning on buying a stronger laptop this month so I can start recording my 1CCs (such precious memories :)), and I was planning on getting either Windows 7 64 Bit, or Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit. Will all the Touhous (PC98 included), Seihous, and Danmakufu work with both these versions of Windows? Thanks for any help!  :3

It'll work on Windows 7, but I have no idea for Windows 8.
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Post by: Lunatic_Reimu on September 06, 2015, 03:54:19 PM
Thanks Lollipop, I'll play it safe and go with Windows 7 then :)