Wont install

Universal · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:19 am Post subject: Wont install

My red alert 2 wont install anymore Sad

I get the following error message after i click on the install button

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-tr8er8- · Rocket Cyborg **Joined**: 16 Sep 2006 **Location**: USA

Hah! That is what I get when there is an error in my mod of some sort. But I deleted that and now it has this other thing that pops up. Delete everything that has to do with the RA2, and check if there is already an RA2.dir

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Renegade · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject:

Are you sure this is a Westwood-encoded error, and not just you having Visual Studio installed and it catching unhandled exceptions?

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-tr8er8- · Rocket Cyborg **Joined**: 16 Sep 2006 **Location**: USA

No it happens with me too, I used to have that until I uninstalled it, then there is still this other thing that pops up. There must be something else wrong with it.

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Renegade · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

And you are sure you don't have Visual Studio 2005 installed?

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m666 · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject:

Renegade, I think I do have this issue as well, but I know for a fact that I don't' have Visual Basic 2005. I think it has something to do with a WinXP update, as I had RA2 working before some update, and now it won't work.

Your guess is as good as mine.

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Renegade · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject:

Well, if RA2 or the setup program were coded with M$ Visual Studio (which I think pd hinted at before), it is entirely possible this unhandled exception handler was (accidently?) automatically compiled into the exe.

Universal: Have you tried circumventing the autostart and executing the setup directly?

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Universal · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:

Yes tried both of those methods renegade and to no sucess Sad

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Edit: my last resort worked (install ra2 from TFD) Smile

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John Galt · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:42 am Post subject:

Renegade wrote:

Well, if RA2 or the setup program were coded with M$ Visual Studio (which I think pd hinted at before), it is entirely possible this unhandled exception handler was (accidently?) automatically compiled into the exe.

It is a product of having Visual Studio/other Visual Foo installed, not of WW's coding.

1. RA2/YR was compiled with MS's C++ compiler.

2. Unless someone perfected time travel without telling me, there is no way they could have compiled a link to Visual Studio 2005 back in 2000, when RA2/YR were in the works...

3. A simple Google search for "Visual Studio just-in-time debugger" shows that same screen as a result of crashes in other programs.

This post might be useful to those getting this error.

Renegade · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

DCoder wrote:

2. Unless someone perfected time travel without telling me, there is no way they could have compiled a link to Visual Studio 2005 back in 2000, when RA2/YR were in the works...

God damn you and your fancy "logic" #Tongue

But I'll save my ass by pointing out that I asked whether they had Visual Studio installed twice, and nobody ever gave me a conclusive "yes" or "no".

Edit: Woohoo, 100th post!

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