I’m aware that some people have had problems with this and also not everyone reads the TFgames thread which has provided some solutions to this so I thought it would be helpful to put up a post here. While this is primarily for Windows 10 it may well help with other versions of Windows. Not going to be helpful for those on Macs, which I don’t have any experience with myself, I have however heard from people who have got it working using Parallels Desktop running Windows 7 so it is technically possible to do.
Rags Game File Unreadable. The game is set on a group of islands in a vast sea—a first for the series. The game is set on a group of islands in a vast sea—a first for the series. The player controls Link, the protagonist of the Zelda series, as he struggles to find his sister and save the world from Ganondorf. I downloaded it but when i try to play the game it says 'sorry this RAGS game file is unreadable' Reply. Areg5 Sep 25, 2015. Try to download it again. Also, you may want to try opening rags, then opening the game from there. Supergoku15 Sep 25, 2015. I must be doing something wrong because it.
If you can’t get the link on the RAGS game site to work for 2.4.16.0 I’ve rehosted a download link on mediafire here.
There’s are two main things that you can try;
-First you can try installing the SQL which RAGS needs to run which you can find here.
-The other is that RAGS needs WMP installed which depending on your version can be found in these locations;
Once downloaded make sure WMP is actually installed and enabled. You may need to go to Start -> Control panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn a Windows feature on or off -> expand the “media” folder -> make sure Windows Media Player is checked
A couple of other suggestions;
Make sure you’re using the right RAGS version for the game you’re trying to run. As of No Haven 0.803 I believe I’ve worked out enough of the kinks so that 3.0.60. should also work and may well be more compatible with your device if everything else suggested on here fails. There will be formatting issues, and you will need to update the text to html using the in game tools, but there is an upside that the game is significantly nippier. You can get a copy of 3.0.60 player I’ve rehosted here.
Do not open the file directly from your browser, save it to disk and open from that folder separately.
Make sure it is a folder you have full rights to, say your Documents folder
If you are in a country that does not use a decimal place for number, say Germany that uses a comma (ie 1,23 not 1.23) then RAGS games can badly fail and the only solution is to change your locale to a country that uses a decimal place
I hope that helps if you’ve been having problems and thank you to weird, greyelf,
cmacleod42, anon and karazelle for this information.
Performance Improvements
Now I’ve not tried this myself as RAGS player has always been pretty responsive on my system, but if you want to take some extra steps these additional fixes could well help out.
Quoting the post by Figment on Hypnopics:
Found a huge performance improvement for .NET BinarySerializer that vastly improves the performance of Rags saves for No Haven. It sped up loading a game save from 50 seconds to 10 seconds on my computer and appears to be very safe. The main requirement is that you have .NET 4.7.2 installed which I believe you have to install separately.
.NET 4.7.2 Offline Installer
.NET 4.7.2 for Windows 7 from catalog
Here is an article about the change itself: Serialization Performance Update With .NET 4.7.2
Here is a file for that for Rags.exe config. Just replace the existing config wherever you installed Rags. Rags.exe.config [mega]
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I cannot fix everything in Rags but these seem reasonably safe. Also this should work for any Rags game and not just No Haven.
Patched Executables Download:
Rags_2.4.16_SlightlyFasterPatch_v1.7z [mega]
Warning: The patched files might cause problems that I’m not aware of so use at your own risk. Make backups and all that. The other config change should be totally safe.
Rag Files Player
To emphasise the warning no support on this will be offered and these are to be installed at your on risk. They’re also not going to be relevent I’d guess if you’re using
Rags Game File Unreadable
3.0.60. They have though be used and found to be good by cmacleod42 who is someone I trust so there’s one endorsement.