trouble running inquisit session in medialab (case 4905)

[jarvis24]

Well, that's one way to solve it! If anyone else runs into this problem and ends up seeing this thread in search of an answer, please let me know and I expect Sean would be willing to help work it out.

[MatthewHunsinger]

I am also having trouble running Inquisit 3 with Media Lab. I have the Inquisit file in the same folder as the Media Lab files. I noticed that the Inquisit file opens as a Media Lab file since they have the same 'exp' extension; is this part of the problem? The error I get when I try to run the Media Lab experiment file with the Inquisit file is: 'Run Time Error 53 File not Found'.

Any suggestions?

[jarvis24]

Can you zip and attach or send us your whole experiment folder. Actually, a reduced version with just enough content to demonstrate the problem would be ideal. If we can replicate the problem here, we can probably figure out what the source of the issue is.

[jarvis24]

Thanks to the users who sent us their MediaLab+Inquisit folders to play with. We think it has something to do with Inquisit 3 and the way MediaLab calls Inquisit sessions. It used to be that MediaLab could automatically detect the location of Inquisit.exe, but now it can't--this results in the file not found error. I think it has something to do with registry entries that are made during the Inquisit 3 installation. Consequently, the version of MediaLab you have probably won’t make any difference. I just emailed Sean Draine and he said he would look into it and see if he can find a fix. As I mentioned above, he's usually pretty quick to take care of stuff like this once we figure out what's going on.

[jarvis24]

Here is a temporary fix offered by Sean. I just tried it and it seems to work--thanks Sean!

You should be able to work around this problem by adding the Inquisit program folder to the system PATH variable. Specifically, do the following:

1. Right click the My Computer and select Properties
2. Click the Advanced Tab
3. Click the Environment Variables button
4. Scroll down through the System Variables list until you see Path
5. Double click the Path variable to edit it
6. Append the following to the end of the variable value (Important: do not delete the existing value--just add the following!!)

   ;C:\Program Files\Millisecond Software\Inquisit 3

7. Note: If you've installed Inquisit to another drive (e.g., D, E, F, ...), then replace C with your drive letter.
8. If you have Media Lab running, shut it down and restart it so that picks up the new path value. At that point, it should be able to locate the Inquisit.exe file from this point on.

[MatthewHunsinger]

The path modification worked! Many thanks to both of you for finding this solution.

[jarvis24]

Glad to hear it did the trick.