All popcap games not working? (fatal error)

[EKR]

I've been playing Insaniquarium and Feeding Frenzy for some time, but I've been off Steam for a while. But now both games are not working. They just bring up endless 'fatal error' messages so that I can't even end the process. Any help?

[hwang6858]

having the same problem

[Zack]

same as well

[EKR]

maybe I should ask popcap for this issue. Seems like almost everyone's getting the same problem.

[風叔]

Because this game is too old, it will be wrong to run in full screen under Windows 10.
Then the game defaulted to run in full screen, which caused an error.

The temporary solution is as follows:

1. Enter Regedit by entering regedit.exe in WIN+R.
   
2. Find "..\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PopCap\Insaniquarium"
   
3. Set the "ScreenMode" parameter to 0
   
4. If there is no parameter, you can add a "DWORD (32-bit) value" and the name is "ScreenMode".

This just turns off the full screen and makes the game run in window mode. The game window is very small.
And this solution did not solve the error, so the full screen still cannot be used.

Happy game

※ Google translation.
※ Reference : https://forum.gamer.com.tw/C.php?bsn=17625&snA=1274

[Jimbo]

This worked great. Thanks

[Abellio89]

hello
sorry but i dont find the "popcap" ^^'

[風叔]

Because I am already using Windows 11, the following is the result of testing under Windows 11.

This operation still works on Windows 11 according to my test just now.

The possible reason why "popcap" does not appear is that the game program has not been run. So just follow the steps below.

1. Open the game program.
   
2. Wait until the game program reports an error.
   
3. Terminate the game program.
   
4. Restart regedit.exe.
   
5. Find your "popcap" category.

Hope this operation can solve your problem.

※ Google translation.