The "Real" How-To Fix Luxor 2 Guide!

[DJKiltScor]

This game was a huge part of my childhood growing up. I absolutely played the crap out of it, and was so excited when I saw it on Steam. So, I went and bought the Luxor Collection with the disappointment that this game was not working. So, I went and looked into not only how to fix it, but also why it was not working.

When Steam acquired this game, they received a copy with what appears to be a ".SWF" file as like a splash screen. As some of you know, Flash reached it's End-Of-Life on December 30, 2020. This is causing anyone who is currently purchasing the game to run into some errors, and "Not being able to run as Administrator" because the executable is launching a Flash Player file and is considered "Unsafe".

The solution? This handy-dandy little guide that will get your game up and running again. I dug around the basement and found the Luxor 4-in-1 game disk that I had grown up on. I ran some tests to figure out what files we needed to run the game, and realized that Steam has all of those already.

Step 1: Open Steam, and find your Luxor 2 Game
Step 2: Right click on the Luxor 2 Icon, and under "Manage" click the "Browse Local Files" button
Step 3: Find the files named "Flash"(.ocx), "game"(.dmg), "Splash"(.swf), and "Luxor2"(.exe)
Note: You may see the part in parenthesis, you might not. It's alright either way.
Step 4: You can delete these files if you so wish, or move them to another folder, or if you do see those parenthesis, change it to .xxx2
Note: The .xxx portion is whatever portion you see in the parenthesis, if you modify the .swf file, change it to .swf2 for example.
Step 5: Go to "https://www.mediafire.com/file/2iuh5tqntkvx64l/Luxor+2.zip/file" (Copy and paste into Web Browser and remove quotations, because steam is currently blocking links) and download the (.zip) folder
Note: This contains the executable that I used during my childhood, and has not been modified in any way by me.
Step 6: Go to where your file was downloaded, right click the file, and click "Extract All...", and click the Extract button.
Note: In Windows 11, this option may be under the "More Options" button
Step 7: You're almost done! Go into the extracted folder called "Luxor2" and copy the "Luxor2"(.exe) file.
Step 8: Paste it into the folder where you deleted/changed/modified the "Flash"(.ocx), "game"(.dmg), "Splash"(.swf), and "Luxor2"(.exe) files.
Step 9: Close all of the folders, Open Steam, and click the "Play" button!
Step 10: (And I really mean this one!) Enjoy!

[FeatherFriend]

Цитата допису DJKiltScor:

Цитата допису Elonova:

Hello, for me it says:

luxor2.exe - Entry point not found

The procedure entry point ''?PhaseInitialize@Application@@SAXPBD00000@Z'' was not found in the DDL ''D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Luxor2.exe''.

Upon doing some research, it looks like there's 2 things I can recommend for help. You can try double checking your anti-virus quarantine and see if it removed any DLL's or the executable for some unknown reason, or another option is it's not talking to the x86_64 compatability layer for some reason. In that second case, make a copy of the Luxor2.exe and rename the duplicate Luxor2_x86.exe and try launching that, both through steam, and without the steam launcher. Also, make sure to try standard troubleshooting things like admin access if possible, and compatibility mode with Win XP SP3. If those few fixes don't work out, please reply again and I can look into it further.

(The only other thing I can think of is maybe something messed up when placing it on a secondary drive, I always just told it to install onto C: so that'll be something I'll look into as well.)

I have the same problem and tried all of these and the main post above, unfortunately didn't work :/ I'm on Windows 11
Have you gotten any new information about it maybe? Even if not, thanks so much for your efforts!

[Vorondanil54]

Thank you very much! Luxor 2 is my mom's childhood game and she will be really happy.

[JustEmmy]

you are the best

[Super Credit]

thanks of lot, it work,take my points

[GaoKT]

highest respect to you hero, that truly save my ass

[Zami]

I bought it today, but all the doings here were not successful. I think I have to give it back :((

[Gabriel Hadgia]

Thank you!!!