I'm not sure what happened. I was once able to play this game. Then, I reinstalled my system. Now I can't play it at all. Same computer, same windows version.
I execute the houseguest.exe file and a option dialog come out. <Wave to me>, <you are beautiful>, <take off your pants>, <skip>, these are the only 4 option I can see. only up, down, w, s 4 keys can work. all other keys do not responding. I can move mouse to see surranding but mouse buttons do not work. I even tried to change region to US and still not work.
Anyway, I don't think DEV is reading this post at all. I am just here to complain.
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Fuck DEV, I finally solved your problem.
to all players:
if you have never run this game on your computer before, you are lucky.
just remember to turn off the microphone on your computer before you execute the houseguest.exe game file.
if you have run this this game, follow the below steps to make sure to the game has a fresh start.
first, delete the settings, usually under c:\users\<your user name>\AppData\LocalLow, find a folder called HFTGames and delete it.
you don't need to erase this folder from recycle bin. just delete it from the location above would do the job.
then, this is the tricky part:
WARMING:
THIS COULD DO <UN-RECOVERABLE> DAMAGE TO YOUR WINDOWS SYSTEM IF DO IT WRONG
PLEASE DOBLE CHECK, EVEN TRIPLE CHECK BEFORE YOU EXECUTE THE DELETE COMMAND
1. type regedit in the search box. This should bring out a search result call reg editor or something similar.
(I'm not using english windows, sry)
2. go to the exact location down below to find the data
COMPUTER\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE
3. find a folder called HFTGames and right click on it
4. check you are in right location and click on the correct folder
5. make sure you have done step 4
6. choose delete
7. check again
8. execute the delete
9. restart your computer
10. turn off your computer microphone
11. execute the houseguest.exe and enjoy the game.
Once you can see the <new game> menu, you can exit the game and turn on your computer microphone if you want to. The game will can run without any trouble from voice recognition .