Comments on: American McGee’s Alice

By: dewdrop

dewdrop — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:23:57 +0000

In reply to Bri. same here. did you ever find out a solution?

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:48:45 +0000

In reply to vago90210. thanks a lot it workedd

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:13:02 +0000

I keep getting this at start up.

American McGee’s Alice win-x86 May 5 2011
—– FS_Startup —–
Current search path:
C:\Users\ABSfo\Downloads\American-McGee-s-Alice_Win_EN_Remastered\Alice1\bin\base\pak5_mod.pk3 (30 files)
C:\Users\ABSfo\Downloads\American-McGee-s-Alice_Win_EN_Remastered\Alice1\bin\base\pak4_english.pk3 (44 files)
C:\Users\ABSfo\Downloads\American-McGee-s-Alice_Win_EN_Remastered\Alice1\bin\base\pak3.pk3 (9 files)
C:\Users\ABSfo\Downloads\American-McGee-s-Alice_Win_EN_Remastered\Alice1\bin\base\pak2.pk3 (71 files)
C:\Users\ABSfo\Downloads\American-McGee-s-Alice_Win_EN_Remastered\Alice1\bin\base\pak1_large.pk3 (3368 files)
C:\Users\ABSfo\Downloads\American-McGee-s-Alice_Win_EN_Remastered\Alice1\bin\base\pak0.pk3 (7723 files)
C:\Users\ABSfo\Downloads\American-McGee-s-Alice_Win_EN_Remastered\Alice1\bin/base

———————-
Config: config.cfg
execing default_pc.cfg
Can’t find menu.cfg
couldn’t exec menu.cfg
Can’t find config.cfg
couldn’t exec config.cfg
Can’t find localized.cfg
couldn’t exec localized.cfg
Can’t find autoexec.cfg
couldn’t exec autoexec.cfg
…detecting CPU, found Intel Pentium III

——- Input Initialization ——-
Initializing DirectInput…
iDirectInputCreate failed
Falling back to Win32 mouse support…
joystick not found — no valid joysticks (a5)
————————————
—– Client Initialization —–
—– Initializing Renderer —-
—– R_Init —–
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
…initializing QGL
…calling LoadLibrary( ‘C:\Windows\system32\opengl32.dll’ ): succeeded
…setting mode 0: 1920 1080 W
…registered window class
…created window@0,0 (1926×1115)
Initializing OpenGL driver
…getting DC: succeeded
…GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
…35 PFDs found
…GLW_ChoosePFD failed
…GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 0 )
…35 PFDs found
…GLW_ChoosePFD failed
…failed to find an appropriate PIXELFORMAT
…WARNING: could not set the given mode (0)
…shutting down QGL
…unloading OpenGL DLL
…assuming ‘3dfxvgl’ is a standalone driver
…initializing QGL
…WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
…shutting down QGL
—– CL_Shutdown —–
———————–
GLW_StartOpenGL() – could not load OpenGL subsystem

By: Mila

Mila — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:06:57 +0000

In reply to vago90210. Hey OP I ran into the same problem and your comment helped so thank you so much!!!

By: Orb

Orb — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 02:10:22 +0000

No clue how active this thread still is but I got the game running perfectly fine outside of audio issues. I have seen users say that some sounds do not play, however my install has no sound entirely. It does not show up in audio manager. Has anyone else run into this issue?

By: abby

abby — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:31:17 +0000

here’s how i installed and made it work on my windows 10 computer:
step 1: extract the ZIP file into your Program Files (x86)
step 2: open C:\Program Files (x86)\American_McGees_Alice_Win_Preinstalled_EN\Game Files
step 3: run the “alice” application file as administrator
step 4: let it run, and enjoy the game!

By: nacho

nacho — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:34:36 +0000

In reply to BooplesnootGrl. Place the pre-installation folder to (programs files x 86) and it should work. Like one of the above comments says.

By: vago90210

vago90210 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 01:39:53 +0000

In reply to BooplesnootGrl.

1) This should solve your installation issue…
you can usually fix this by deleting the “config.cfg”
file located in the BASE subdirectory where you installed Alice.

2)
Also make sure to install the game under your Programs files (86X) folder ; it should liike like this
(c:)//ProgramFiles(86X)/American_McGees_Alice_Win_Preinstalled_EN

This should solve the issue with character voices..

Follow these steps and you should be good to go …
Also if you need another copy of the game check out : https://archive.org/details/ALICE01_201803

Good Luck

By: BooplesnootGrl

BooplesnootGrl — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:01:47 +0000

In reply to Mika Lawliet. How did you get it to work?

By: BooplesnootGrl

BooplesnootGrl — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:01:07 +0000

Im having an issue where it said
American McGee’s Alice win-x86 Nov 13 2000
—– FS_Startup —–
Com_sprintf: overflow of 130 in 128
Com_sprintf: overflow of 131 in 128
Current search path:
C:I(nformation redacted becuase it contains personal computer info) \American_McGees_Alice_Win_Preinstalled_EN\American_McGees_Alice_Win_Preinstalled_EN\Game Files/base

———————-
Com_sprintf: overflow of 136 in 128
—– CL_Shutdown —–
———————–
Couldn’t load default.cfg

By: SamG

SamG — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:11:07 +0000

Have the original game discs and didn’t play it enuf. Then Windows OSs changed every year and controllers drivers changed, etc. Want to still play the game!

By: shkg

shkg — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:17:19 +0000

the game isnt working at windows 11 what could i do
i think there was a file corruption or something like that