C.I has been nudging me to play the Fate/Stay Night visual novel since I can’t remember when, and he passed me a copy of the game nearly 2 months ago. I clearly forgot about it and never touched it, leaving the installation files sitting on my hard drive.
It was until today when I decided to make good use of my time during a lecture to install the game. My friend sitting beside me saw that I had the game and requested for a copy. And so, we both started on the VN installation, in the lecture hall. He complete his installation first and proceeded to start up the game. Meanwhile, my netbook’s Intel Atom processor was lagging behind him for a bit until I finally complete the installation. The moment it was done, this darn alert had to pop up.
Really? A trojan horse in Fate/Stay Night?
As you can see, I’m running AVG. My friend was running Avira, and he never got any virus alerts. In fact, he was already a few minutes into the game, happily clicking away. The alert was probably a false positive by the antivirus engine so I ignored it and tried to start the game.
Instead of the game running, I got an error stating that the Fate.exe file couldn’t be accessed. It was probably the antivirus engine blocking access to it. Maybe shutting the bugger down temporary would do the trick? However, doing so resulted in nothing but the same error. I spent the next 30 minutes uninstalling and reinstalling the game, and all I was greeted with was the same dumb error message. It couldn’t be the antivirus engine’s fault now, could it? Anyone faced the same problem before?
Anyway, the whole installation attempt was a waste of time and I couldn’t get the game running even after the lecture ended. I can only conclude that some invisible force was trying to prevent me from committing any indecent gaming (can visual novels be even considered gaming?) on the premises of an educational institute. Bah, I’ll just try installing it on my desktop instead.
I once read somewhere:
‘You are going through a story and deciding your fate based of various decisious. Isn’t that what games are about?’
So, just to make sure, in my oppinion VN are indeed games. =)
probably you can get another copy of the game?..
haha unlucky you. i sometime face this problem and it is quite annoying especially u want to play the game badly but u dunno what the error it is. anyway, good luck on ur next try ^^
You forgot to add three letters at the end of the post.
FML.
Look for the English translation patch, it fixes up the exe error.
Though I lament the loss of the original Japanese text.
Also you might have to add the game folder to your exceptions on AVG.
I’ve gotten rid of AVG and am currently using Avira. No more worries now!
Yeah it’s not really a virus, just AVG being oversensitive. I just installed the game today and had the same damn problem.
Same as me!! It’s AVG oversensitive.
BTW my recent problem is how to manage the AVG. I can’t find the way to stop AVG or give an exception of the game for this anti-virus engine without get rid of it (either AVG or the game).
T^T
Hi, i got this problem too.
No more alerts after adding the Fate installation folder to AVG’s Resident Shield’s exception list. Hope this helps.