Author Topic: I lost my RA2 disk... (Read 5334 times)

man manu · « **on:** January 03, 2013, 08:37:50 AM »

Hey guys, I've not been on for a few years now and I'm not sure if this is correct section of the forum to post in but anyway... I lost my disk and just want to play this game for a couple of hours for nostalgic reasons really, Is there any way I could download it for free or will I have to buy it again? I don't know if you're allowed to ask this but I genuinely have just lost the disk haha, thanks for your time :)

Naryar · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2013, 08:39:14 AM »

oh come on main menu you should know you can download ra2 off Sage's signature

or did you left before that ?

cephalopod · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2013, 08:47:05 AM »

https://gametechmods.com/downloads/Robot%20Arena%202%20v1.4.rar - Stock
https://gametechmods.com/downloads/DSL21.rar - DSL

Both full and ready to go. Good to see you back, by the way..

man manu · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2013, 08:49:15 AM »

Thanks for the quick responses, sorry for my stupidity

I searched but couldn't find anything... How come you're allowed to give it for free now?

cephalopod · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2013, 08:52:00 AM »

Pretty sure we're not really meant to, but it's abandonware let's be honest. The devs are hardly trying to milk any more money out of it, I don't think they even recognize our existence...

Jamin · « **Reply #5 on:** January 03, 2013, 08:56:56 AM »

Yeah, I think RA2 qualifies as being Orphaned at this point.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2013, 08:57:55 AM »

HOLY CRAP IT'S MAN MANU

dude, it's been forever. How's it going?

man manu · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2013, 09:06:48 AM »

Hey badnik! Heck, I recognise all of you apart from Jamin! Surprised you're all still on here! Anything of interest happen over the last 2-3 years?

Anyway, back to me being a noob. I just opened up the stock version and I'm getting incredible lag on the main menu. I entered into an exhibition match and there was no lag at all but still loads in the menus. Also the resolution is being weird... I always have massive black bars at both sides of the screen when playing fullscreen, I've tried all resolutions but none get rid of the problem. Any help? Thanks again :)

Jonzu95 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2013, 09:07:49 AM »

Jamin is Sparkey... Also hi Manu.

Jamin · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2013, 09:15:21 AM »

Quote from: Jonzu95 on January 03, 2013, 09:07:49 AM

Jamin is Sparkey... Also hi Manu.

lol I don't think Man Manu has ever been here since I joined.

Jonzu95 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2013, 09:16:49 AM »

Quote from: Jamin on January 03, 2013, 09:15:21 AM

Quote from: Jonzu95 on January 03, 2013, 09:07:49 AM
Jamin is Sparkey... Also hi Manu.

lol I don't think Man Manu has ever been here since I joined.

True, true...

Sage · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2013, 01:20:06 PM »

Quote from: man manu on January 03, 2013, 09:06:48 AM

Anyway, back to me being a noob. I just opened up the stock version and I'm getting incredible lag on the main menu. I entered into an exhibition match and there was no lag at all but still loads in the menus. Also the resolution is being weird... I always have massive black bars at both sides of the screen when playing fullscreen, I've tried all resolutions but none get rid of the problem. Any help? Thanks again :)

Maybe it didn't extract properly? Try the DSL version and see if you get the same problem.

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #12 on:** January 03, 2013, 03:08:38 PM »

Quote from: man manu on January 03, 2013, 09:06:48 AM

Also the resolution is being weird... I always have massive black bars at both sides of the screen when playing fullscreen, I've tried all resolutions but none get rid of the problem. Any help? Thanks again :)

RA2 doesn't support 16:9 aspect ratio. So if you have a widescreen monitor, just run it windowed.

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #13 on:** January 03, 2013, 06:36:50 PM »

Man Manu! You were always one of my favorite forum members to have kicking around. So good to have you back.

In the past two to three years two major things have happened:

-Hax Mode was discovered in stock and stirred a bit of controversy. It still has not been widely embraced by the community, but it is a huge discovery.

-IRL (In Real Life) building has become rather popular over the years with DSL. There are several builders that build bots in DSL that are aimed at aesthetics and accuracy rather than exploiting the unbalanced parts in DSL for a competitive edge. It is a nice alternative that allows more creativity.

man manu · « **Reply #14 on:** January 04, 2013, 06:45:05 AM »

Quote from: Sage on January 03, 2013, 01:20:06 PM

Quote from: man manu on January 03, 2013, 09:06:48 AM

Anyway, back to me being a noob. I just opened up the stock version and I'm getting incredible lag on the main menu. I entered into an exhibition match and there was no lag at all but still loads in the menus. Also the resolution is being weird... I always have massive black bars at both sides of the screen when playing fullscreen, I've tried all resolutions but none get rid of the problem. Any help? Thanks again :)

Maybe it didn't extract properly? Try the DSL version and see if you get the same problem.

Yep, exactly the same there aswell... Surely it can't just be my bad laptop or it would be just as bad in battle, if not worse?

Hey JD! Thanks for the update, I think I was there for when people first started with the DSL realism thing but hax mode is new to me, I'll go and check that out now :)

EDIT: Also, when I click the options from the main menu it works absolutely fine on that but as soon as I go back to the main menu it goes back to being laggy.

Badger · « **Reply #15 on:** January 04, 2013, 08:12:48 AM »

1) Try running it in compatibility mode for Windows XP, or 98 if that doesn't work.
If that doesn't work:
2) Try running it as an admin
If that doesn't work:
3) Disable desktop composition. This worked for similar lag problems for my version of VB6.
If that doesn't work:
Try them all together.

To change these, right click on Robot Arena 2.exe, go to properties, then the compatibility tab. Should look a little like this:

Post your results, hopefully this helps!

man manu · « **Reply #16 on:** January 04, 2013, 08:43:27 AM »

Thank you for your reply badger but unfortunately none of your suggestions worked

The only thing that made a difference was running it in compatibility mode for 98 which made it horrendously slow to start up and close down... I find it strange how it works fine in the options menu and in battle.

Also, I'm by not technical at all so don't know if there's anything in this but I went on the task manager whilst RA2 was up and the CPU usage was fluctuating between 100% and 80ish%

Badger · « **Reply #17 on:** January 04, 2013, 09:20:57 AM »

Can you post your PC specs? Have you tried it on another PC? Maybe extracting it to a USB stick and running it from there? Making a new partition on your hard-drive for RA2? Fiddling around with the in-game settings? If you have Counter-Strike 1.6 or Source, how do they run on your PC? Maybe your PC isn't good enough for RA2, although I HIGHLY doubt that.

man manu · « **Reply #18 on:** January 04, 2013, 09:28:50 AM »

I have a packard bell easynote TM80 with windows 7 64 bit. As I said I'm not technical so I wouldnt know what specs to post but you could probably google to find out? The only game I play on my laptop is Football manager 2013 and that works fine. I have done everything in the options menu of RA2 but nothing works.

I'll try extracting to an external hard drive and playing from there. Thanks for your help :)

Badger · « **Reply #19 on:** January 04, 2013, 09:32:40 AM »

To find out your PC specs, go to the start menu, then click 'System properties' at the top, then tell us your processor and your RAM, but your PC seems fine. Oh, and check that you only have 2 mouse plugged in. It may sound silly, but I had 3 mice and 2 keyboards plugged into my PC a couple of weeks ago.