Torque2D.exe is not a valid win32 application

#1 Are you using a download manager to download it? And what OS/Service Pack are you on? You're the second person to report this and we haven't been able to replicate so that info will tell us if there are some similarities.

#2 Also, what program are you using to unzip the folder?

#3 I downloaded using Google Chrome. I have Windows XP SP3. I used the built-in Extract function of Windows to unzip the folder.

#4 I just tried downloading with IE8 and got the same result.

#5 Interesting, XP SP3 is the common factor then. I don't know if we have an XP machine in the office currently or not to check this on, I'll have to check with QA.

#6 It might be a good idea to just re-zip the file. Maybe it has an issue.

#7 We've still got an XP machine in the QA Lab, so our QA guy is taking a look to see if he can replicate it. We need to verify there is an issue to begin with.

#8 Not saying this is happening, but I have helped several people in the past who would run it from the archive view folder rather than extracting and then running it. Since it is still archived, it cannot access everything that it needs to run and throws the error. This might be something else, but I've answered a lot of questions that were similar to this.

#9 No, that's not the issue. I wouldn't make such a simple mistake as that.

#10 Ray was able to verify it happening on the remaining XP machine in the lab. The only guess we've got as to why it happened is that maybe WinRAR isn't as friendly to XP as it used to be. Mich is going to see about rezipping it differently and uploading a new zip, I don't know if he's gotten to it already or if that will be tomorrow sometime. In the meantime you can just clone the repo and build it to get going.

#11 @Scott - I use the same installer for WinRar that I used back in my XP days on Win7 without any issues. Haven't updated it and it's unregistered. Hope that helps to narrow down the issue/s.

#12 This seems to be a bigger issue than I originally thought. I have 2 machines that I'm using and my XP machine doesn't run the app as explained in this thread. However, when I extracted the whole thing onto my Windows 7 machine, it worked fine. The strange thing is, I copied the working exe file from my Windows 7 machine over to the Windows XP machine and it still doesn't run. I get the same error I see here. Very odd. This eliminates the extractor as the issue in my case. I also tried re-downloading the current zip file from here and extracting it on Windows XP and still doesn't work. Not sure if the file was updated or not since this thread began, but those are my up to date results.

#13 Is this a compiler issue then? Is it creating non-backward compatible EXEs? This would be interesting and a good thing to know.

stackoverflow.com/questions/14306675/ms-visual-studio-2012-express-for-windows-d...

Perhaps it is the compiler?

#14 This thread at post 2 - the OP has run into an issue where the T3D dll won't build correctly. It was solved by installing an update to Visual Studio. I'm wondering if this issue might be related.

#15 The first thing you should always do in those case on windows is to throw the binary at dependency walker, i would suspect that the vc redist is not installed and it had no intelligent way of telling so on XP.

#16 Sorry double post.

#17 I am presenting the same problem, I have downloaded several times but does not work, someone can help me.


Windows XP SP 3
Visual Studio ultimate 2010

#18 Who ever build this at GG need to update his visual studio... or even better build it with 2010.

@Yue you will need to build it yourself, they used a version of the crt not compatible with XP. You can try with the latest version http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679 but it wont help if they built it with one of the earlier version of 2012.

#19 Ok, log z-zip Stop / 81%

#20 http://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/134633