MCell Problem

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Saka
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MCell Problem

Post by Saka » June 23rd, 2017, 2:36 am

Hello, I installed MCell installer and saw the glorious old-fashion download thingy. But now I can't open it because of this error:

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Exception EOleSysError in module MCell.exe at 000FD8D1
Error accessing the OLE registry
Please help me. I want to try out MCell's features, especially Larger Than Life, Margolus, and Special Rules.
System specs:
Windows 10 Pro
Version 1511
OS Build 10586.589
Processor is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3317U CPU @ 1.70 GHz
RAM 4.00 GB
64-bit OS, x64-based processor

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Re: MCell Problem

Post by wildmyron » June 23rd, 2017, 3:46 am

Saka wrote:Hello, I installed MCell installer and saw the glorious old-fashion download thingy. But now I can't open it because of this error:

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Exception EOleSysError in module MCell.exe at 000FD8D1
Error accessing the OLE registry
Please help me. I want to try out MCell's features, especially Larger Than Life, Margolus, and Special Rules.
On my Win7 system I run MCell in compatability mode (specifically Win XP SP3). I tried running natively again and it works now, so I can't confirm if I had the same error, but I remember something about the registry causing the problem. May be there's something MCell does the first time it runs which causes the problem.
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Re: MCell Problem

Post by Saka » June 23rd, 2017, 3:56 am

Oh I found the solution! Just run with administrator mode!

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