Hello!
Well. . . right now this is the reason I registered myself to that community
But. . . I noticed that there is a huge area filled with fan fiction (and stuff), so don't expect get rid of me verry soon
Anyway.
Whats wrong?Opening the game and hitting F9 in the. . . menu-only-bar-part of the game (where it name the games title, the date and your empire) create an error.
Well, there are many other Error-Messages at all, but this one make it impossible for me to create a custom race start as described in the wiki.
What happens?Well. . . I could make a screenshot of that errormessage, but I'm too lazy to upload it
ehm. . . it says this:
Error in LaunchSystemWindowError 339 was generated by Aurora
Component 'COMCTL32. OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered:
a file is missing or invalid
Please report to hxxp: auroa2 and so onWell, here I am.
What did I do?I took the v5 Maininstallation, pasted the two patches to get v6. 21. All of this was placed far away from anything Windows would take care about.
Speaking about Windows - its Windows 7 Pro 64
Before this, I installed the installer-package, which is responsible for placing all the system-files somewhere they should be of use. I kept the newer files the installer named, as described in the wiki.
Unfortunally, it says that the file that cause some trouble to me is already existent. Anyway, if I search the Windows/system32/ folder for it. . . nothing is there.
But, after let Windows perform a full scale search at the system-partition the missing file was sighted somewhere like Windows/SysWOW64. Verry well.
I tried to copypaste it into system32, but. . . that didn't help.
After this I asked google for help. And the search-function of this forum. Second one just referred to a single-post-fred, that wasn't useful at all.
Google led me to serval windows-communities, or programs that use this file too. And encounter the same problems. Their solution of choice was reregistering that file. After unregistering it at first place.
some CMD-command (run as admin). . . uh. . . regsvr32 or something like this. Trying this without the file availabe in system32 just create an error. Try this with the file copypasted over, get me an "may not be compatilbe"-blabla.
Changing CMDs shown path to that SysWOW64 and using that command again, provide a was-sucessful-message. A. . . a light at the hyperjumps end?
No. Same error.
That was the point I really got pissed of. All good games seems to refuse to work at my PC. Dwarf Fortress was pain in the ass to get running properly too. And now. . . Aurora.
Okay. Next thing I tried. Some absolute-low-level-skills of PC-beating send some kind of memory-flash trough my head.
Oh, say it simple: I remember about a place, somewhere inside windows, where you can define a standard-path for about. . . everything. Hard thing was to find it again in Windows 7. Did I mention that I fuc*ing hate that new system-settings layout? No? Well.
So. that had to be said.
Where was I? Ahh. . . after finding the envoironmental variables place again, I added a entrace for COMCTL32. OCX.
Needless to say, that didn't help.
Last thing I hope it could help was the portable installation of Aurora. At the very end, there is that damned file available just in the same directory! This MUST work.
Wel. . . It didn't. Same Error as every year, Miss Sophie.
Now I reached the point i will beg for help.
Just for the protocol: I did reinstall all of that stuff over and over again. I even permitted the installation of all older files that are not a . dll. Most annoying about this: They won't show up in the system32 directory after this. And yes, the installer was granted with admin-rights.
So. . . anything I miss here?
EDIT: Ah, I forgot to say that I installed that simple shutdown timer (and deinstalled it) too. Didn't chance anything.