Problems Installing Dark Radiant

[Aceyalone]

Just downloaded dark radiant 0.8.1. Installation was succesful with no error messages but try opening the editoe only results in an alert windows saying

 

"This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found"

 

Well, I tried to reinstall and redownload it from different mirrors, however the result remains same! God if its again Vista's fault I am gonna shoot Bill Gates... This OS reminds me of XP the first years... Nothing was working on it at those times... Anyhow I just wonder how can a man spend 8 billion dollars, spend 6 years of development and still there are tons of problems to be fixed! Cant imagine the beta version... honestly...

[SneaksieDave]

It's not windoze' fault. There's a known issue with that DLL missing, and it's in the process of being decided whether it should (or can) be included or if it should be required for users to get it separately. License/distribution issues, really.

 

If you really need it, it can be downloaded online from some of those DLL repository sites (if you trust them), or maybe someone could send it to you.

[New Horizon]

Yep, as Sneaksie said...it's not windows, just one of those files that some people have on their systems and some don't. If we can't distribute it, we'll document that it might be an issue. DR hasn't been Vista tested yet, so this should prove interesting.

[Aceyalone]

OK downloaded! Really thought it was a release problem or a windows prob (honestly last days I have freaked out with the new OS)

 

Anyhow Dark Radiant 0.8.1 seems to work fine on Vista (32-bit at least)! Means you made good compatibility work (at least thats what it seems )

 

PS: Irrelevant but now do really 32-bit Vista are any significant different from the 64-bit edition??

[Crispy]

PS: Irrelevant but now do really 32-bit Vista are any significant different from the 64-bit edition??

For consumer purposes, no, there's no significant difference. (Except I think 64-bit Vista has extra security-related features.) Mostly it's just another thing for programmers to worry about (and/or take advantage of).

[Redface]

I've got a weird problem with DR (v 0.9.1) - everytime I start it, and also during various actions in the editor itself, a message pops up: "Failed to create log file, check write permissions in Radiant directory" and I have to confirm it to continue. Incredibly annoying Tried reinstalling, moving to different hdd, creating radiant.log manually, but nothing works.

 

Thing is, there's nothing wrong with file permissions and there are no problems on the Windows part. I even tried the original GTK radiant and it works fine. So, how can I turn off logging or get rid of the message ?

[greebo]

You can't turn off logging. DarkRadiant tries to create the log file in your user folder, which normally is in C:\Documents and Settings\Redface\Application Data\DarkRadiant. Somehow it can't write to that folder, which maybe due to a full hard drive or wrong user permissions.

 

I can't really give any more advice at the moment, this is the first occurrence of this type of error.

[Redface]

A few months later, reinstalled windows, doom 3 & darkradiant. Same problem.

 

The darkradiant.log file is supposed to be C:\Documents and Settings\Redface\Data aplikací\DarkRadiant, but it's not created at all. I tried just adding an empty file there, but darkradiant doesn't seem to find the directory/file. However, input.xml and user.xml is there...

For the record, I also tried GTK radiant, it stores settings in the same place (..Data aplikací\RadiantSettings\1.5.0) and it works fine, logging is there.

 

 

EDIT: Ah, I see it's on bugtracker already. I'd just like to add that this might be a bit more serious issue - in my case it's not the user name that's not in english, but the Windows localization (my Czech Windows replaced Application data with Data aplikací). So this problem might potentially occur with every Windows that's not in english.