Hello again everyone.
By following
Tsugumi guide above, I managed to download and play Artificial Academy 2. However, I had some problems and opted to share what happened and how I solved them.
1st. regarding game download and installation.
At first, the file size 1.8 GB got me suspicious (some posts mention the game having 12 GB). Still, I gave it the benefit of doubt and all I have to say is: it works. Can't even imagine what witchcraft packed 12 GB in 1.8 GB though.
Next, the game is available through torrent networks, that means you'll need a capable client.
I've being using
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for a while now. It's light, simple but feat & func complete (for my needs at least). Give it a try, if you're looking for alternative to the famous (for good or bad reasons) clients around.
The game is packed in 7zip (.7z) format. For those the official
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app is a must.
2nd. about running the game.
I followed the steps:
1 unpack the game;
2 install vcredist if you need;
3 install .net if you need;
4 run AA2play.exe
I initially thought I had 2 and 3, then headed straight to 4. The result was a d3d9 dll missing pop up.
to solve that, I've downloaded and installed
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which apparently installed all direct x versions not already installed on my pc.
Running AA2play.exe again, brought forth the game loader panel. Then I went to scripts, selected win10fix, clicked enable, and quit the loader for the changes to take effect. (see pic bellow)
After that, I went to play the game for real, but the loader kept "stopped responding". When I checked windows event viewer, I saw that .net core dll "hostfxr.dll" was missing. That led me to go back to step 3 and install .net (Run the windowsdesktop-runtime-3.1.9-win-x64.exe in the extra folder)
After all that, the game loaded fine and, so far, no other issues have shown up. (see pic bellow)
One final thank you to
Tsugumi for pointing me in the right direction.
Best regards.
decagem.