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Offline Sage

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TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« on: March 25, 2014, 06:35:49 PM »
A lot of people are reporting a quick fix to this.

Go to your main RA2 folder. Find the file named "ra2.cfg" (make sure it's not ra2.cfz).
Right-click > edit with notepad.
Find the line "fullscreen = 1" (should be the second one down).
Change it to "fullscreen = 0"

Let me know if that works for you.
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2014, 10:01:05 PM »
how does one open the cfz file is there software which opens it if so can you put it on this page? Been trying to get this working for 2 weeks  :vista:
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2014, 10:02:44 PM »
cfz is something else, don't tamper with it.  cfg will open just like a txt file in Notepad++. 

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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2014, 10:04:52 PM »
i apologize i meant to enter cfz. when i try to open it windows says it doesn't have the correct program. is there a program i should launch it with.
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2014, 10:05:35 PM »
*cfg
i messed that up twice
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2014, 10:13:08 PM »
yes, use notepad
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2014, 10:14:28 PM »
i apologize i meant to enter cfz. when i try to open it windows says it doesn't have the correct program. is there a program i should launch it with.

It only says that because it's never seen a cfg file before.  That dialogue box should  let you choose the program to open it with, so choose Notepad, and tick the "always use this program for this file" box for good measure.

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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2014, 10:20:33 PM »
 I opened up the cfg file with notepad and it was already set to 0 for fullscreen.  any other suggestions on how i could fix this problem. if there is another page dedicated to fixing this problem , if so could you link it?
« Last Edit: March 29, 2014, 10:21:42 AM by El Chickenado »
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powers of three lost in the first round but to clickbeetle so yeah
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2014, 02:38:36 AM »
That's the only fix I know. Try re-installing? I don't know. It's hard to troubleshoot when all you give us is "the game crashed."
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2014, 09:45:09 AM »
windows 7 64 bit
download version
Robot Arena 2 v 1.4
downloaded off the link on this website
no mods
i get a black screen and then it says
" Robot Arena 2.exe has stopped working "
if there is any other information you need?
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powers of three lost in the first round but to clickbeetle so yeah
battlebots 9... i dont want to talk about it
father and son tournament: wait i won something...?
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2014, 10:29:53 AM »
Are you launching the game through a folder? If you try opening the game through winrar it will usually crash.

Try re-extracting the game and see if it works. If none of the above work PM me and i can send you the working game.


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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2014, 06:19:41 AM »
My RA2 is crashing on startup, but it's only just started. I was AIing and I had to delete the bindings for a robot.I copied the robot's bindings from a seperate copy of RA2 and pasted them where the robot's old bindings were before they were deleted.
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Re: TO EVERYONE WHOSE GAME CRASHES ON STARTUP
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2014, 09:41:11 AM »
It sounds like you are getting a syntax error in your Bindings.py. The most likely culprit is that you forgot to use 4 spaces at the beginning of the line that you pasted.