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1.0.1 Torque Toolbox crash on fresh Windows install

by Josh Engebretson · in Torque 3D Professional · 10/28/2009 (8:27 am) · 3 replies

The Torque Toolbox won't start on a fresh install of Windows.

I needed to install the VS2005 runtime package in order for it to work. The included version of the runtime doesn't appear to be setup properly. The runtime should probably be installed (silently) by the SDK installer package. (This is how Steam and other installers handle it)

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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
10/28/2009 (10:26 am)
Interesting. I had the runtime installed because I had installed the latest Beta of TrueSpace, so I hadn't noticed it.

Is this Windows 7, Vista, XP (or all three)? I didn't have the problem on a fresh VirtualBox install of XP--Torque 3D wouldn't load on VB, but Toolbox will.

Associate Josh Engebretson
#2
10/28/2009 (10:36 am)
Hey David, are you sure you didn't have anything else installed on the Virtual Box installation? This was on a copy of XP, but other versions of Windows are likely affected.

For reference, the reason that the runtime is needed is due to Qt requiring it. You cannot link against the VS runtime statically with Qt (It is documented and I have tried it from source).

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
10/28/2009 (11:07 am)
I most likely did, but I'm not seeing anything under the usual VS2005 runtime paths and its hasn't been added to my ENV vars. Of course, that doesn't mean that it's not in a custom path on there. But I didn't see anything with a cursory glance.

EDIT:
Found it. Custom path for Office 2007 plugin development. Wouldn't you know that I'd find it seconds after posting?