Author Topic: Crashing before battles and sometimes after :( (Read 2303 times)

hal · « **on:** August 31, 2010, 01:56:00 PM »

Hey, my game crashes quite regularly when i start or end a battle.

I'm using the downloaded version of the game from Sage's sig. DSL 2.1 I think it is.
Only alteration I have made is replacing the DSL AI bots with the original game's AI.

Using windows 7

error message is somethink like: Robot Arena 2 has stopped working, windows is checking for a solution to the problem.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

cephalopod · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:02:40 PM »

It'll more than likely be the AI. Did you change the entire AI folder (including bindings, teams.txt etc)?

Or, it might be the components in the stock AI bots. But definately something AI-related.

hal · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:03:48 PM »

I basically just dragged the AI folder from the original game to the DSL version.
Is it a more complicated procedure than that?

cephalopod · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:05:52 PM »

No, that sounds like the way you would do it. If you were to do it and it were to work. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but the components of the stock bots you're battling may not be in the DSL mod.

hal · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:12:33 PM »

Do you reckon that could be it?
I bet that's not easy to sort out :|
any ideas how?

Naryar · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:17:45 PM »

Stock bots work in DSL. Normally.

but you're fighting Stock AI with DSL bots ? *laughs*

hal · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:24:28 PM »

Yeah, I just wanted to try out all the bots on the old AI before diving into the big DSL pond.
The crashing is preventing me from doing so though :/

Badnik96 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:25:44 PM »

Well first of all, welcome back! :) I remember you posting that massive post of RW reps.

Anyway:

1. Has this game worked before with the same AI?
If yes, then just stop playing for a while. It happens on my grandma's computer sometimes.
If no, then I would re-install the game.

hal · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:31:52 PM »

Ha thank you very much!
Wish I still had those bots ha

I've just got a new laptop and fancied going back to play the game, i remember it used to crash when I used the disc on my old PC,
So i downloaded the copy in Sage's sig hoping things would be better, sadly not.

I must be doing something wrong surely, but I can#t think what :/

G.K. · « **Reply #9 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:32:44 PM »

Must be the AI

hal · « **Reply #10 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:43:06 PM »

Any suggested solutions? :)

J24 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:48:33 PM »

not really a solution but,...
it happens to me sometimes (about once every two days actually)
i use windows 7 but i havent touched the ai at all so it probably isnt the ai

G.K. · « **Reply #12 on:** August 31, 2010, 02:51:55 PM »

Just use the regular DSL AI.

hal · « **Reply #13 on:** August 31, 2010, 03:21:01 PM »

I'd rather not just yet.

Would it be anything to do with the DSL teams having 6 bot slots and the stock teams only having 3 bot slots?

G.K. · « **Reply #14 on:** August 31, 2010, 03:22:20 PM »

hal · « **Reply #15 on:** August 31, 2010, 03:24:29 PM »

Ok.

Know of any possible solutions G.K. ?

G.K. · « **Reply #16 on:** August 31, 2010, 04:00:26 PM »

Unfortunately not.

hal · « **Reply #17 on:** August 31, 2010, 04:17:42 PM »

Just been running the original copy of the game from Sage's sig, turns out i'm having the same issues with that.
Could windows 7 be the problem?

Somebody · « **Reply #18 on:** August 31, 2010, 07:55:18 PM »

It could be. RA2 was obviously not meant for Windows 7.

SKBT · « **Reply #19 on:** August 31, 2010, 08:54:48 PM »

RA2 runs fine on my Windows 7 computer.

Offtopic: I didn't know Hal9000 ran windows.

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