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OpenXcom => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: bloodman123726 on April 09, 2015, 11:37:02 pm

Title: OpenXcom just not working at all [FIXED]
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 09, 2015, 11:37:02 pm

I've tried everything i can think of but nope, i deleted the whole OpenXcom folder, got a clean install of Xcom from Steam and re-downloaded the milestone with no nightlies but still it just. wont. work! basically when i click on New Battle or New game and choose the difficulty the game crashes with "OpenXcom has stopped working" and the usual garbage under it. Help??? :(

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Meridian on April 09, 2015, 11:45:25 pm

Can you attach a screenshot, complete error/exception message text, openxcom.log file... and/or anything else you can find? It's hard to help without anything to start with...

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 09, 2015, 11:46:47 pm

double check any shortcuts to make sure they're not pointing to a broken install, check my documents/openxcom/ and see what's going on in there.

if you are using the nightly, you no longer need xcom1ruleset.rul and can delete it, as the ruleset is now in a folder structure.

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 09, 2015, 11:58:38 pm

ok i'll add an attachment on what happens, also i cant use any nightly as it doesnt work as well

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 10, 2015, 12:10:52 am

can i see what's in your data folder? (expanded tree view if possible)

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 10, 2015, 12:19:19 am

where's your vanilla game data?

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 10, 2015, 12:25:40 am

what do you mean i dragged everything from steam folder to this

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 10, 2015, 12:32:22 am

here's what it should look like:

if you're getting in to the main menu, then it is reading the data from _somewhere_ so the question is, where?

and in that location, is there an older (or newer) ruleset that may be overriding the one you WANT to use?

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 10, 2015, 12:36:00 am

so should i drag all of the xcom files into data

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 10, 2015, 12:37:11 am

i'd suggest locating the data that already exists somewhere else, and purging it first.

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 10, 2015, 12:41:20 am

i had a spare copy of openxcom and another folder with PirateZ installed in it, i deleted both of them, recycled them and launched openxcom yet the issue still remains. :/

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 10, 2015, 12:42:42 am

check my documents/openxcom/

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 10, 2015, 12:49:53 am

so then where is the data??

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 10, 2015, 01:10:27 am

i was looking around for the data and i found a crash report, hope this helps

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: Warboy1982 on April 10, 2015, 01:47:16 am

just a crazy theory, but maybe it doesn't like being run from the desktop?

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 10, 2015, 03:04:09 am

haha sounds funny but i'll place it in program files then

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 10, 2015, 03:05:22 am

nope :(

Title: Re: OpenXcom just not working at all
Post by: bloodman123726 on April 10, 2015, 03:17:42 am

oh my god you wouldnt believe it, i just disabled the standard mods that come with openxcom then re-enabled them, THEN IT WORKED.  :-\ Yay!