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TGE compiled on Vista won't run on XP ?

by Nmuta Jones · in Technical Issues · 02/21/2009 (9:13 pm) · 2 replies

I have been running TGE on Vista for months now, have compiled on Vista, now I have transported my entire Torque project to a thumb drive that I am now trying to run on an XP laptop.

I am using AFX. The AFX-Demo_DEBUG.exe , when I double click on it, opens up that small window quickly (looks like a command line), and then quits.

From my console.log file:

Compiling arcane.fx/server/prefs.cs...
arcane.fx/server/prefs.cs Line: 1 - parse error
>>> Advanced script error report.  Line 1.
>>> Some error context, with ## on sides of error halt:
Pref::Server::AdminPasswor$ = "";

##$##Pref:8Server::BanTime = 1800;

$Pref::Servdr::ConnectionError = "You do not have the correct version of the Arcane-FX Demo or the related art needed to play on th)s server, please contact the server operator for more information."

$Pref::Server::DatablockC!cheFilename = "Arcane.fx/server/afx_datablock_cache.dbc";
>>> Error report complete.

Now, I've been running Torque long enough to know that I copied the entire folder (the one including starter.fps, aracane.fx, etc.) onto my thumb drive, and this is all that I have ever needed to run Torque.

What am I doing wrong?
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Torque Owner Nmuta Jones
#1
02/21/2009 (9:32 pm)
This is really bizarre. It looks like somehow many of the strings in that file (as you can see in my error report) have been messed up. It's a new thumb drive.... but I've never before seen something happen where a file gets totally corrupted like that! I've been going through trying to fix the strings, but it makes me wonder how many other strings may have been corrupted. Obviously it has nothing to do with the Operating system, but something related to copying files from a Vista machine to a thumb drive, to reading on another machine????

The weirdest error I think I've ever seen.

Torque Owner Nmuta Jones
#2
02/21/2009 (9:51 pm)
Ok, this seems to be an issue of a crappy thumbdrive. This thing was brand new but it's obviously corrupt already. It's just simply corrupting my files.

I used another thumb drive, and it works fine now. Nothing to see here, folks. move along...... Sorry for the waste of a thread. I should delete it.