games crashes on components selection and a few stages

[scander]

yes, i do have all the patches and all the dsl upadates and yes i have read everysingle thing in the forum and even found one problem which is similar to mine. i really love this game and i have been playing it for ages but i have never actually posted anythign coz i always managed to solve the bugs i found in the game one way or another. sometimes it was my antivirus stopping it, at other times updating the graphics driver, screen resolution, cleaning up registiry, whatever it took i would do it but today i must confess, i really do feel like getting physical with the game!!its bloody fustrating, im begging for help!!this might be long but plz plz help me love this game. I have installed the game in two diff computers, both running xp pro, both nvidia, and yes both nvidia patched, plenty of memory and speed. i swtiched anti viruses off and anything else that could get in the way. but when i go to components, not only blank squares but even alot of the new components, everytime clicked on will crash the game. when im playinng for the tornies, i few stages crash after 20 secons or so, and the opponents do not even move, but then it gives a diff error, its the executable that fails when the game crashes on a stage. so i cant play around with most of the new parts in the lab and 45% of the stages do not work. how on earth can i solve this?
i tryed deleting the compponents.cfz, nothing, try doing all the things ppl suggest in this forum, nothing. is this a normal problem that everyone has or is it just me?is the game actually fully playable with minor bugs given the right enviroment or is this normal?plz help

thanks for the patience

oh yes, i have the cd version, patched 1.2, dsl 2 and installed it perfectly like told.

[Clickbeetle]

Well I don't know what your problem is, but that is definitely not normal.

Out of curiosity, did you isntall DSL2 on a fresh install of RA2, or did you update DSL 1.2?

[scander]

YES, i think that might actually be it. my version is already patched apparently, because when i try to apply the 1.2 official patch half way through the patching it gives a warning that there is a file in the game which is already patched and does not need to be patched again, but it gives me the option to patch anyway, so i let it. is it possible i already have by default the patched version of the game?i think i will try just installing dsl2 without patching it...but its a clean copy, seems already patched though

oh, and i installed dsl2 directly onto a fresh copy of the cd game..but before installing dsl 2 i patched the game to 1.2, but then i had the problem above where it says the game is already patched..im gona install a fresh copy of the game and run it to check the version on the credits and post back

[cerg]

Ïðèâ, at me the same problem throws out from game at a choice of elements
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Badly I know English:\

[Cactus]

Same problem here, it *always* performs this kind of crash on the "ocean view" (or ocean something...) Arena when in tournement mode.

I dont get any of these crashes untill i try and use the tournement thing.

CD version, 1.2 patch, and nvidia patch.

Also, your bots keep kicking my ass  :P  Is there no way to just install components and arenas?

EIDT: i wasnt very clear, i do get the same "runtime error" crash as the other guys, but i only seem to get it on certain arenas when in a tournement. After the crash it sometimes makes the robot i was using when it crashed, crash the game before even loading the arena when i try and use the robot in a tournement again.

All in all, it seems a strange glitch...