Warning: I am not a gamer. I have no idea what I'm doing. Please bear with me.
Anywho, my friend emailed me a link to a place on Origin's site where I could download Plants vs Zombies for free, since she knew I liked the trial version when I had it on my computer. Anyway, I've never used Origin before and I had no idea how it worked, but I followed all their instructions and signed up for the site, downloaded and installed Origin, then downloaded and installed the game.
Problem is, due to issues which are not even consistent, I haven't been able to play this game even once since installing it yesterday. (And after a few Google searches, I realized I am not alone, and also this program is apparently a piece of shit, but since nothing else ever offered PVZ for free...)
At any rate, I was hoping some people in Spam might be able to help me out. As for what the actual problem is, well it seems there are several. Firstly, Origin rarely opens when I click it. Yesterday the program wouldn't launch at all unless I clicked the "launch" button straight from my browser where I downloaded PVZ, and today I got it to open once, but I've since closed out of it for reasons I will elaborate on in a moment. Secondly, even when I am lucky enough to get Origin to open, I can't play the game. Clicking "play" causes... nothing to happen. I see the little loading wheel next to my cursor for about a second like it's trying to do something, but then it all stops and it's as if I never clicked it at all. No acknowledgement; not even an error message. I tried looking up help to get the game to play in such a situation, and EA's help site told me to exit Origin, run as administrator, and try again. Not only did that not work, but now I've closed out of Origin and can't open it again at all - whether running as an administrator or otherwise.
I just wanna play a dumb little game about growing a garden to battle the undead that my friend was nice enough to share with me. D: Help?
Anywho, my friend emailed me a link to a place on Origin's site where I could download Plants vs Zombies for free, since she knew I liked the trial version when I had it on my computer. Anyway, I've never used Origin before and I had no idea how it worked, but I followed all their instructions and signed up for the site, downloaded and installed Origin, then downloaded and installed the game.
Problem is, due to issues which are not even consistent, I haven't been able to play this game even once since installing it yesterday. (And after a few Google searches, I realized I am not alone, and also this program is apparently a piece of shit, but since nothing else ever offered PVZ for free...)
At any rate, I was hoping some people in Spam might be able to help me out. As for what the actual problem is, well it seems there are several. Firstly, Origin rarely opens when I click it. Yesterday the program wouldn't launch at all unless I clicked the "launch" button straight from my browser where I downloaded PVZ, and today I got it to open once, but I've since closed out of it for reasons I will elaborate on in a moment. Secondly, even when I am lucky enough to get Origin to open, I can't play the game. Clicking "play" causes... nothing to happen. I see the little loading wheel next to my cursor for about a second like it's trying to do something, but then it all stops and it's as if I never clicked it at all. No acknowledgement; not even an error message. I tried looking up help to get the game to play in such a situation, and EA's help site told me to exit Origin, run as administrator, and try again. Not only did that not work, but now I've closed out of Origin and can't open it again at all - whether running as an administrator or otherwise.
I just wanna play a dumb little game about growing a garden to battle the undead that my friend was nice enough to share with me. D: Help?
