Dark Radiant no longer loads

[Springheel]

DR just started refusing to load today. Every time it gets to "initializing module xml registry", it crashes. The log file has nothing useful in it that I can see:

 

Started logging to C:/Users/Eric/AppData/Roaming/DarkRadiant/darkradiant.log

Today is: Thu Jun 27 17:18:52 2013

This is DarkRadiant 1.7.3 x64

gtkmm Version: 2.24.2

Module registered: LanguageManager

Current language setting:

 

Any ideas?

[Sotha]

Reinstall?

[Springheel]

Tried that; no change.

[Sotha]

Uninstall, delete leftover files in "program files" and saved config files in "documents and settings/username/application data/darkradiant" and then reinstall?

[grayman]

When it's working correctly, this pair of lines appears in the log file:

 

ModuleLoader: Loading module 'C:/Program Files/DarkRadiant173_060313/modules/xmlregistry.dll'
Module registered: XMLRegistry

 

So that tells us which file it's trying to load that it's failing on.

[Springheel]

I deleted the module folder, reinstalled, and tried running it. Still crashed.

 

Can I delete the entire DarkRadiant folder and still keep my preferences somewhere?

[grayman]

You could copy the contents of AppData/Roaming/DarkRadiant elsewhere, then delete the DarkRadiant folder and see what happens at load time.

 

Once it's running again, you can copy back your files to DarkRadiant. If it crashes again, do all this all over again, but bring them back one at a time to see which one's causing the crash.

[Springheel]

Thanks, that seems to work. If I copied everything from the roaming folder, it crashed. But if I just copied back colours, input and user.xml, it worked.

[grayman]

So it looks like one of the ones you didn't copy back got corrupted somehow.

[Bikerdude]

Can I delete the entire DarkRadiant folder and still keep my preferences somewhere?

Yes, but make a backup of the files in the following folder - C:\Users\b1k3rdude\AppData\Roaming\DarkRadiant.

 

Ah, got ninja'd by gman.

[Springheel]

I don't think it's considered ninja'd when there's seven hours in between messages.

[Kvorning]

Weird I just got exact same problem. I blame Windows update. And everything else.

 

For some completely unknown to me reason, the bug also put all changes I'd made into the 'Default' later, from the past 2 days. Weird.

Edited June 30, 2013 by Kvorning