Overview
Windows 10 fullscreen and bugfix step by step guide.I’ve noticed many people having issues here and I put together this step by step guide to help you all. This will get the game running in fullscreen and the screensaver without the broken resolution, distorted colors, or the crash to desktop. I can only confirm this works on Widnows 10 on 4 different setups that I have but please let me know If it works on 7,8,8.1 as well. Sorry if this is long winded but I wanted to be as clear as I could.
Step by step instructions.
Edit: Before attempting these steps backup your save files in case of data loss. This is normally located in “C:ProgramDataSteamInsaniquariumuserdata”
Step 1. Go into your install location, default (SteamsteamappscommonInsaniquarium Deluxe)
Step 2. Right click the “insaniquarium delux.exe” and select “Properties”.
Step 3. Go to the compatability tab and select the checkbox “run this program in compatability
mode.”
Step 4. Select “Windows XP (service pack 2 or 3 depending on your Windows 10 update, choose the higher number.)” from the dropdown box.
Step 5. Below “Settings” click the checkbox and enable “Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by.”
Step 6. Select “Application” from the drop down box.
Step 7. Next select “Disable fullscreen optimization”
Step 8. Select Apply then close.
Step 9. Rightclick “WinFish_Scr.exe” and select “Properties”
Step 10. Repeat steps 3-8 for this .exe (This is the screensaver).
Step 11. Go back to the base steam folder “Steam” and copy “Steam.dll”
Step 12. Paste “Steam.dll” in the Insaniquarium install location “SteamsteamappscommonInsaniquarium Deluxe” With the .exe’s you edited.
Step 13. Rightclick “Insaniquarium Delux.exe” Select “send to>” and pick “Desktop” (Create shortcut)”
Step 14. Play with the Shortcut on the desktop.
Step 15. Go to “Options” and turn on “Fullscreen.” and turn off “Custom cursors” confirm with “OK”
(OPTIONAL)
If fullscreen still is having issues.
Step 16. Go into your install location, default (SteamsteamappscommonInsaniquarium Deluxe)
Step 17. Right click the “insaniquarium delux.exe” and select “Properties”.
Step 18. Check on run in 640×480 screen resolution.
Step 19. Confirm with “apply” then close the window.
Step 20. Rightclick “WinFish_Scr.exe” and select “Properties”
Step 21. Repeat steps 17-19 for this .exe (This is the screensaver)
If you are still having an issue, launch the game and go to “Options”
Step 22. Ether turn on or off “hardware acceleration” and confirm with “OK”
Step 23. Enjoy!
Notice:
As of November 2019 I am able to launch the game from the steam launcher with the fix remaining in place, minus Steam’s overlay support. I am unaware if this is due to the current version of Windows 10 Pro, Steam, or various driver updates but back up saves and try at your own risk if not continue using the .exe shortcut.
Solution for: “Invalid partner properties signature”
This was posted by user “SiLeX” in discussions and I take no credit in the original writing or dicovering this fix it appreared to help many people so I wanted to include it in this bug fix guide.
Solution for: “Invalid partner properties signature”
There are 2 ways to workaround this:
Workaround A:
– Change the language of the game (to english for example)
– Start the game. Game will work.
– If you feel lucky, try changing it back and try again. This did not work for me.
Workaround B:
– Go to your Steam folder
– search for and copy “steam.dll” to SteamApps/common/Insaniquarium Deluxe/
– change the name of “insaniquarium.exe” to something else.
– make a copy of “insaniquariumdeluxe.exe” and call it “insaniquarium.exe”
– Start game in any language.
If save file is deleted.
If this method removes your save and is making you start over this might recover the file.
Step #1: Navigate to “ProgramDataSteamInsaniquariumuserdata”
(This folder may be hidden and is normally located under the C: drive)
(Or use the copy of the save you made at the very start)
Step #2: Copy the multiple .dat files that are located in the folder.
Step #3: Navigate to “SteamsteamappscommonInsaniquarium Deluxeuserdata”
Step #4: Paste the .dat file in the folder overwriting the files as needed.
Step #5: Launch the game and hopefully your progress has returned.
Fatal Error/Direct Draw
Insaniquarium! Deluxe must be set to English if you are receiving one of the Fatal Errors.
Step #1. In your steam browser right-click the “Insaniquarium! Deluxe” link in your “Library”.
Step #2. Select “Properties”.
Step #3. Select the “Language” Option and choose “English” from the dropdown.
If this is still giving you issues after the change you may have to change your computer’s system language to English-US for this to be fixed.
Step #1 Select the Start button, then select Settings > Time & Language > Language.
Step #2 Choose English (United States) from the drop down in the Windows display language menu.
The other two Fatal Errors I know of are a driver issue and can be fixed by reinstalling DirectX or “Microsoft Visual C++ 2008” depending on the error.
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For Direct Draw errors you likely need to enable it within Windows 10. This should help more than I will be able too.
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