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General Discussion / Re: Pre-release of PlaneShift 0.5 and ChangeLog
« on: November 27, 2009, 07:23:00 pm »
I downloaded the new client and installed on my Windows XP Pro SP2 and... it did not launch. 
'This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect'. I fixed this by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86).
It appears the C runtime DLLs packaged with the download do not work as expected. One forum I looked in suggested that from VC++ 2005 on these libraries checked whether they are actually loaded from a system directory, or not, so packing them with the application is no good. Don't know whether this is true or not.
In any case guys you obviously never really try to install this on a freshly installed system... you should really consider at least SOME compatiblity testing
I mean is it really such a big problem to install a fresh copy of Windows in a virtual machine and try to install the thing there?
Not to mention the webpage still states: Minimum Requirements: Windows (2000, XP or Vista) which is not very accurate, because the game just WON'T run on XP SP1 or lower.
Now launcher runs okay. The client crashed on first attempt. On successive attempts it crashed later and later and finally I got as far as logging in and seeing myself standing in Hydlaa.utton Then it crashes. You guys are the crash masters
Edit: Please do not double post use the modify button and you do realise 0.5 is a pre-pre release test version?
'This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect'. I fixed this by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86).It appears the C runtime DLLs packaged with the download do not work as expected. One forum I looked in suggested that from VC++ 2005 on these libraries checked whether they are actually loaded from a system directory, or not, so packing them with the application is no good. Don't know whether this is true or not.
In any case guys you obviously never really try to install this on a freshly installed system... you should really consider at least SOME compatiblity testing
I mean is it really such a big problem to install a fresh copy of Windows in a virtual machine and try to install the thing there?Not to mention the webpage still states: Minimum Requirements: Windows (2000, XP or Vista) which is not very accurate, because the game just WON'T run on XP SP1 or lower.
Now launcher runs okay. The client crashed on first attempt. On successive attempts it crashed later and later and finally I got as far as logging in and seeing myself standing in Hydlaa.utton Then it crashes. You guys are the crash masters
Edit: Please do not double post use the modify button and you do realise 0.5 is a pre-pre release test version?
