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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: thorn123123 on July 15, 2014, 11:56:57 AM

Title: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 15, 2014, 11:56:57 AM
So, I have been going through a bunch of old threads, and tried many of the solutions, but none seem to work. I have tried setting configuration to my resolution, and fullscreen=1, it opens from desktop, and I have tried optimizing it for many OS's. I use win-7 64 bit
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: cephalopod on July 15, 2014, 12:13:07 PM
Could you give us some information about your game? Has it been doing this since you got it, how did you get it, what mod are you using and also have you edited any other files. This can all help us determine the problem :)
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 16, 2014, 01:41:31 AM
It has been doing this since I dowloaded it, I have tried Using Sage's downloads both dsl and the game, I have edited the configuration as previously posted. I'm going to try using a virtual machine running vista and see how it works. will post solution.
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: Naryar on July 16, 2014, 03:34:30 AM
did you put all of your RA2 folder directly (or indirectly) on the desktop?
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 16, 2014, 01:09:44 PM
I put the whole folder on the desktop. 

Haven't finished with the virtual pc yet.

 It did not work. It said something about it not finding a graphical device on the virtual machine
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 16, 2014, 06:57:50 PM
virtual machine did not work. It said something about it not finding a graphical device on the virtual machine
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: cephalopod on July 17, 2014, 03:39:06 AM
I know it sounds silly but you are extracting it from the .rar right?
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 18, 2014, 01:44:29 AM
of course. I extract the folder itself from the rar to my desktop
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: Agaton on July 18, 2014, 06:01:31 AM
You can try things like disabling antivirus/firewall, check dirextx drivers, remove any second screen if you have one and so on. How does it crash, like how far do you get? Is it still in the task manager after the crash? Any messages?
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 19, 2014, 01:18:12 PM
Have not disabled antivirus, I game often so my directX drivers are up to date, no second screen.  It gets to the infogrames logo, then nothing. It just sits there and loads. All I get is my cursor giving me the loading sign. And no, I have let it load for a while, because if it takes more than 10 hours to load, I'm not bothering with it. I have let it load for 10 hours straight.
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: cephalopod on July 19, 2014, 02:38:44 PM
Try extracting it to some different locations maybe?
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 20, 2014, 03:03:19 AM
I did. Program files, program filesx86, desktop, libraries
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: cephalopod on July 20, 2014, 04:35:18 AM
I know your user folder is one some people have used which may be worth a go.
Also, you say you tried both DSL and the game, does that mean you tried both the DSL ready-to-go .rar and the Robot Arena 2 v1.4 rar?
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 21, 2014, 03:08:17 AM
Yes both .rar files.
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 21, 2014, 03:11:55 AM
just tried my user folder. It did not work
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: Trovaner on July 22, 2014, 01:16:26 AM
Are the RAR files corrupt? RobotArena2v1.4.rar should be 89.09 MB.

What are you extracting with? WinRAR, 7zip, etc.
Title: Re: Robot Arena 2 crashes on startup/black screen
Post by: thorn123123 on July 24, 2014, 05:18:33 PM
I doubt they were corrupt every single time I downloaded.  using winrar