Make Ragnarok Work With Vista

19 Dec, 2007  Ragnarok


I’ve been getting a lot of comments and even e-mails on how to make Philippine Ragnarok Online work with Microsoft Vista

Good thing Master Diwa posted the instructions on his blog. Special thanks also goes to Nicole who did the original post at the Ragnaboards.

It’s actually easy… let’s start shall we?

Hi! I was able to figure out how to make Ragnarok Online work with Vista. For more details, you can go and read this forum:

Here is how I did it:

I turned off the UAC (sorry, didn’t see the former posts) and got an idea on how to run RO on Vista (from a site about Trickster Online). Make sure that your Vista copy is genuine The following steps below won’t work if your Vista OS is pirated or a copy:

Step-by-step instructions after the jump

HOW TO VISTA-PROOF YOUR RO CLIENT

1. Locate your profile folder
* Click the ‘Start’ button.
* Type “C:/Users/” and hit enter and a window should pop up with a list of folders.
* Find the one with the same name as your Windows username and double-click it.
* You should now see a list of all your personal folders: Desktop, Pictures, Documents, Favorites, things like that.

2. Locate the profile data for Ragnarok Online.
* You need the AppData folder (which is hidden by default), so, click on the location bar at the top (it should say something like : Local Disk (C:) > Users > (your user name). Click in the blank space between that and the little down arrow.
* It should change into a normal textbox with the contents highlighted. Click in the blank space again to unhighlight everything.
* Now type or copy and paste: \appdata\local\virtualstore\program files\ragnarok online
* Hit enter.

3. Install Ragnarok online on the above location.
* If you are logged in as an account without administrator rights, and if it says something about permission, just click ‘continue’ or allow.

4. REMEMBER TO TURN OFF “USER ACCOUNT CONTROL” FIRST before patching!

5. Start RO normally!

* If your Windows crashes, just restart your computer/laptop. That happened to me, but when I restarted, everything functioned normally.

Simple way to turn off your User Account Control - but make sure that you’re the Administrator. I don’t think you can modify the settings if you’re not the Admin:

1. Click on Start.
2. Click on Control Panel.
3. Look for User Accounts. A new window will pop up.
4. Look for “Turn User Account Control on or off” and click on that. A new window will pop up.
5. Remove the checkmark on “Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer.
6. Click OK.
7. A window will pop up and will ask you to restart your computer.
8. Restart your computer.

ENJOY.

Via Master Diwa

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39 Comments so far »

  1. aLex said

    am December 19 2007 @ 5:47 pm

    astig!! I always wondered if pRO will run on a Vista OS

  2. blaqfire08 said

    am December 19 2007 @ 6:47 pm

    GM T, I’m wondering why is it that the price of a field manual box is now back to 1000 rok pts.

    Here’s a quote from ragnarok.ph:

    From December 12-26, we’ll be giving EXP BONUSES like never before! Check below for the gift that applies to you:

    Valkyrie, Valhalla - 3x Exp
    Urdr - 4x Exp PLUS Field Manual and Bubblegum Sale (400 RokPoints)
    Baldur, Tyr, Freya - 2x Exp PLUS Field Manual and Bubblegum Sale (400 RokPoints), PLUS 2x Exp on BIOLABS 2 and 3 MONSTERS!!!

    It’s only Dec. 19 today. It pisses me off because I’m planning to buy a lot of FMBs today to help my new character level faster.

  3. Vega.TK said

    am December 20 2007 @ 10:56 am

    hehe, di naman ako nagka problema installing pRO on my Vista OS. I just copied the whole Ragnarok Online folder into my Flashdrive and pasted it directly into my Vista @_@. that’s it.

  4. Blackwolf said

    am December 20 2007 @ 1:02 pm

    Don’t get me started on what I think of the evil Microsoft Empire and how they plan to subjugate humanity with their accursed OS…

    May Gates and his lackies burn in data-encoding Hell…

  5. elp777 said

    am December 20 2007 @ 9:59 pm

    help me po. sinunod ko naman po lahat ng instructions sa taas. vista rin po ako.

    pero nung klinik ko na po game start sa patch, me error pa rin po ,yung ‘game guard error 220′…

    lahat naman po eh ginawa ko na… nakakafrustrate..hayyyy

  6. joel said

    am December 22 2007 @ 1:06 pm

    yey GM Tristan thank you for posting this to your blog.. kakabili lng sa akin ng laptop.. i didnt expect na windows vista.. prob ko nlng wla ako RO CD! haha… asar.. @_@

  7. fatman said

    am December 23 2007 @ 11:23 am

    I heartily agree with Blackwolf.

    I was able to make RO work with Vista because of this post but so many things in Vista are so counter-intuitive! Next time M$ should use non-techies as ease of use testers. @_@

  8. peter said

    am February 5 2008 @ 7:20 pm

    GM…bakit ganun….ok na po…nakakapasok n q sa log-in…pero pag nakita ko na kung ilan players ung online at dinobol click ko…nag no-not-responding…help nmn poh!

  9. joel said

    am February 5 2008 @ 9:19 pm

    umm ewan q lng.. di ko follow yung instructions haha.. gumana lang xia :D

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  13. NOOBIE said

    am February 24 2008 @ 9:21 pm

    help po pag nag rro ako may sinasabi na error cannot find sprite and then some weird symbols any1 help po

  14. Rizian said

    am February 28 2008 @ 12:38 pm

    well para ma download mo R.O Valkyrie use mo Azureus. im trying it kc na kita ko na pede pala gmana R.O sa windows vista.. windows vista kc OS ko.. dami na dn gmana na laru pero im getting bored sa lahat na yun.. the following games are flyff and gunbound Wc pati Ojam.. thanks to Gm tristan. malalaru ko na R.O genuine kc OS ko.. i wished na every mmorpg ay gawing compatible with vista..

    thank you ult -Gm- tristan ^___^

  15. Rizian said

    am February 29 2008 @ 12:45 am

    may problem dn aq same kay NOOBIE

    noobie baka ito makatulong sau.

    kc aq ganyan dn prob ko

    pag lmabas na yung error hold mo lang yung enter hangang mawala yung error..

    ganyan kc dn prob ng akin.. cannot find sprite and many weird symbols.. can anyone help me and Noobie

  16. NOOBIE said

    am March 8 2008 @ 3:49 pm

    T_T tpos 1 more prob pag stastart ko na game ko may gameguard error sabi rebbot system rineboot ko na error parin tae tlaga microsoft

  17. ralphople said

    am March 20 2008 @ 4:46 am

    peter said

    am February 5 2008 @ 7:20 pm

    GM…bakit ganun….ok na po…nakakapasok n q sa log-in…pero pag nakita ko na kung ilan players ung online at dinobol click ko…nag no-not-responding…help nmn poh!

    GM TRISTAN GANITO DIN PO ANG NANGYAYARI SA AKIN>>… Pano po ito???

  18. frest2007 said

    am March 21 2008 @ 1:37 pm

    How to make private server work on vista? tell me please

  19. trying to help said

    am March 29 2008 @ 8:28 pm

    about sa mga game guard errors like “game guard error:220″ or something similar try nyo lng po i delete ung gamegaurd folder ninyo automatic na magd.download ng bagong gameguard ang ragna paglaunch nyo ulit…mawawala na ung error…sana nmn nakatulong to

  20. raymond said

    am April 4 2008 @ 9:28 am

    Guys help nman o.. ayaw kac pumasok nung sakin.. failed to initialize game guard. anu gagawin ko??

  21. raymond said

    am April 4 2008 @ 9:32 am

    error 114 po lumalabas sakin. failed to initialize gameguard daw. try to reboot your system or close other programs. Pls help me.. pamail na lang po email ad ko or leave na lang po kayo comment. salamat

  22. Bin said

    am April 4 2008 @ 2:57 pm

    Error: Game Guard

    Solution: Just turn off your User Account Control

    Start> Control Panel> User Accounts> Then Turn Off the UAC

    P.S

    whether your Operating System is a fake one, gagana pa rin po yan. fake os ko eh. /wah

  23. paul said

    am April 4 2008 @ 7:29 pm

    wahh help dami ko problem sa PRO valkyrie ko…

    1.) when i login sa mylevelup di ako makalogin di ko 2loy makua pasword ng ragnarok ko..

    2.) try ko din may forgot password baka kc nakalimutan ko lang password ko.. pero.. di gumagana ung forgot password ng mylevelup sakin.. it bring back you lang..

    3.) pag naglologin ako sa mylevelup sabi your encrypt is not updated.. plzz reinstall rencypt..
    di ko naman alaman kung saan dodownload un.. hayzz

    4.) nag patch ako ng valkyrie.. patch is finish normaly and start game.. pagka startgame ko naglogin ako normaly.. and nakalogin ako.. den diba lalabas un like this ( valkyrie(3750) )
    click ko un tapos next diba sa character select ka na.. di na umaabot saakin dun.. pagpasok ko.. di ko na nasisilayan ung select character… then freez na.. not responding na.. i try again but pauletulet talaga…

    5.) di ako nag reklamo kc sa costomer service di ako makapag send ng ticket… error lumalabas pag nagsesend ako

    (i feel so embarasing na grrrrr… )
    (> GM PLZ TAKE ACTION

  24. raymond said

    am April 6 2008 @ 10:58 am

    salamat po kua bin. hehe japanese pa 2ng vista ko next wik ko pa malalaro ro hehe

  25. KC said

    am April 24 2008 @ 10:20 am

    uhm..ask ko lang po… pag nagpapatch kasi ako ng valhalla sa vista ok naman..pero pag naglolog-in ako nakasabe na “Failed to connect to te server.” Help po..paano po yun? Dati ko pa gusto maglaro sa yaptop ko. >_

  26. NOOBIE said

    am April 26 2008 @ 9:28 am

    ibig sabihin either may problema internet mo or yung server soooo…just try after a few hours btw nag-rpivate server na ako masmaganda nlRO rules!!!

  27. KC said

    am April 28 2008 @ 2:21 pm

    aah…pero sa pc nakakapaglog in naman..at ala naman prob sa server during that time..T_T

  28. hiraya said

    am May 8 2008 @ 5:10 am

    gmtristan, i hope you can help me. I downloaded Valhalla already and everything works fine until i click on the Valhalla Icon and the game start button and other stuffs are missing on the Patch Client. It’s driving me nuts, I can’t figure it out. I hope you can help me. Thanks

  29. hiraya said

    am May 8 2008 @ 12:10 pm

    i got an error on Izlude:

    Module Name: C:\Program Files\Gravity\RagnarokOnline\valhexe.exe
    Time Stamp: 0×47a01884 - Wed Jan 30 14:26:12 2008

    Exception Type: 0xc0000005

    0×10004600 cps.dll

    eax: 0×00000000 ebx: 0×00000035
    ecx: 0×00000014 edx: 0×00000000
    esi: 0×00000007 edi: 0×00000080
    ebp: 0×00000007 esp: 0×07f5ed98

    stack 07f5ed98 - 07f5f198
    07F5ED98 : 54 1F D2 00 D4 F3 F5 07 04 00 00 00 40 1F D2 00
    07F5EDA8 : 07 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 B4 EE F5 07
    07F5EDB8 : 00 07 00 00 08 00 00 00 35 00 00 00 07 00 00 00
    07F5EDC8 : 00 EE F5 07 29 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    07F5EDD8 : 06 00 00 00 78 C2 D2 00 2A 00 00 00 0E 00 00 00
    07F5EDE8 : 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    07F5EDF8 : 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    07F5EE08 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    07F5EE18 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    07F5EE28 : 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
    07F5EE38 : 03 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 90 1F D2 00
    07F5EE48 : 18 D0 D2 00 00 00 00 00 84 EE F5 07 00 00 D2 00
    07F5EE58 : 32 07 91 7C 0B 00 00 00 98 08 D2 00 78 C2 D2 00
    07F5EE68 : F8 D6 D2 00 5C EE F5 07 A4 EE F5 07 A0 F0 F5 07
    07F5EE78 : 18 EE 90 7C 38 07 91 7C 16 00 00 00 12 00 00 00
    07F5EE88 : 17 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 15 00 00 00

    Launch Info
    00A4 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

    Job : Novice

  30. keighty said

    am May 10 2008 @ 3:30 pm

    gm tristan., my computer crashes whenever ragnarok is about to start., my vista is original., i followed the step listed on the post but still my computer crashes., please help me., I already do it 3 times….huhuhuh

  31. Ryan said

    am May 20 2008 @ 12:55 am

    GM,

    Can you help me with this. Whenever I install the CD. I do the following steps you ask for. Then when it comes to searching the address bar that’s where the trouble starts. My PC can’t seem to locate the program.

    Do you know what’s wrong with it?

    I need a reply asap.

  32. i need help said

    am June 5 2008 @ 5:46 pm

    hi gm,

    bkit po gnun ngwa ko step by step ang snbi sa taas at gumana nmn. ngeon po nag expired ang anti virus nmin nag install ako ng bago… ngeon gnwa ko ulit laht ng nasa taas pag uncheked sa UAC at ung location ng RO…
    ang prob po ay ito.. kapag patch game start na i-click ko nothing happens as in wla po…nid reply po nakapgpapalvl up na me nitong recent days!!

  33. James said

    am June 7 2008 @ 12:01 pm

    Gm bkt p0 gnun nag sprite error un skin? vista p0 OS nmin…..

  34. karl emo said

    am June 7 2008 @ 12:20 pm

    GM T galing mo pero pede paturo paggamit ng valkyrie server sa vista kc meron sya cncb na gameguard error e

  35. no imagejenny (Who am I?) said

    am August 11 2008 @ 2:45 am

    ei guyz plz help me nmn oh.. d ko alam kung pano magwo2rk ung ro sa laptop ko.. os ung vista ko.. d ko alam kung pano mag wo2rk ung vista sa ro.. lagi po kcng failed 2 get.. plz help po..paki send nlang po sa email add ng bro ko ung answer plz.. step by step po sana,,

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  36. no imagejenny (Who am I?) said

    am August 11 2008 @ 2:46 am

    awts i 4got my bro’s e add… simple_marvin11@yahoo.com paki send po dyan.

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  37. no imagenhek (Who am I?) said

    am August 13 2008 @ 2:51 am

    peter said

    am February 5 2008 @ 7:20 pm

    GM…bakit ganun….ok na po…nakakapasok n q sa log-in…pero pag nakita ko na kung ilan players ung online at dinobol click ko…nag no-not-responding…help nmn poh!

    GM TRISTAN GANITO DIN PO ANG NANGYAYARI SA AKIN>>… Pano po ito???

    GM ganyan din po problem ko kapag nag log in na me makikita ko ung loading screen pero about 2mins not responding na sya …baket po ganun..???Help..

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  38. no imagearkace (Who am I?) said

    am August 16 2008 @ 1:39 pm

    halu bago po ako rito…GM may prob po ako sa RO launcher po sa valkyrie…sabi rito, failed to get val.exe…patulong naman po plss. window vista starter gamit ko OS..

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  39. no imagevin (Who am I?) said

    am August 18 2008 @ 8:39 pm

    gm help po plss..pag mag lo log in po ako bgla nalng my error n la2bas… tapos my module 5 n cnsabi.. help nmn po pls… tell me how to fix this kind of error.. reply asap…

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