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General Support / RA2 DSL 2.1 Crash

« on: April 10, 2011, 12:56:08 AM »

I'm sure that a problem like this has all ready been posted, but I'm lazy tonight and don't feel like digging through hundreds of threads, so I'm just gonna do a new one. First off, I downloaded the DSL 2.1 directly from here, extracting it into the correct destination for the regular RA2 (for organization's sake), getting everything running nice and dandy, at least until I get to a certain critical point in the robot building process. I have Vista (32-Bit), so the problems with getting the thing going in the first place can be quite numerous. Thankfully, there's only one problem (not exactly thankfully, but in Vista's terms, you know what I mean). When I get to the Performance Test Area, the game crashes, with the usual error window that I dread: Robot Arena 2.exe has stopped working, blah blah blah. I've tried everything from compatibility mode, to running it from the desktop. it always crashes when I go into the PTA. Now, I thought that it may just be that, so I tried another instance where the robot is in a workable space, but upon starting an exhibition match, the game freezes, and the four UI stat message things (whatever you call them) appear, with the name "Peanut Botta" and exactly 8888 points on each. This doesn't happen on my other computer (this one has 64-Bit Vista), but there are a few problems on that computer which will be discussed in a later post.

Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated. ~NRL

P.S. Sorry for such a long and verbose post. It's my first time reporting an error with a game.