Paul44 wrote:
Summary (sofar):
Windows 7 x64 fully updated (something I do monthly normally)
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I noticed I still had a prev vs of arch_next (v2.xx?); downloaded Dec last year. (forgot to note down exact vs).
Anyways: decided to reinstall/test that vs, and indeed I got errors again. Updated to current 3.1.x vs and everything is fine...
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ASUS GPU TweakII (nvidia tweak tool):
installed pretty recently?! (jan). can't imagine, but maybe it added/updated some specific dll.
(did some minor testing with it, but had everything reset to default at the end)
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- MS VC++ 2005-2008-2010-2012-2013 (x86 & x64)
- MS .NET fw 4.6
(all updated ~ but that was already the case as far as I can remember)
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It does not seem to be the nvidia driver.
Uninstalled it completely (nvidia uninstaller guru3d), ran program with default vga giving crash, then installed nVidea v355.82_x64 (vs that definitely gave crash issues), and arch_next just works nicely..
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http://www.sereby.org/site/AiO ]: ie update all vc/directx/.net (if needed)
(I believe that i tried this as well with arch_next already, but not sure - only those 3 options; ignored the rest. Fe: i do not have Java installed... at all)
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I also recollect "forcing" to reinstall DirectX9: you need to edit the registry, but I do not remember the exact details...
Good luck.
Thanks for the post! I tried it out as fast as I saw the post. Here is what I did:
- I, also update Windows 7 every month so this wouldn't be the issue
- I keep re-installing every new version of the program, and I even reinstalled it again, I also uninstalled it with the program and then reinstalled it.
- I don't own a Nvidia card or anything Nvidia (I'll have one in my new computer, but that's going to take a while). So I wasn't being able to test out the tweak tool... it looked interesting though! Kind of reminded me of Cortex Razer, but they both are really different.
-I noticed the link you gave me had already these updates in them, so what I did was installed the necessary things, as MS VC++ (All of them, although it seemed that I didn't had 2015 at first, but that one didn't seem to be the case). I installed MS .NET fw 4.6.1. I've no idea if the '1' is a problem, but I thought it's better to have it up-to-date. But everything except for the MS VC++ 2015 seemed to be up-to-date.
- I literally re-installed my Drivers again (worst decision ever, as my screen was all messed up and had to restart in order to fix that so I could install it again.) But this time I installed a somewhat older update. My computer is basically all Intel, due the fact that I bootcamped it. So it's orignally a mac. Anyway, I updated it to a earlier version, because when I used Archive_next with the latest driver update and I wanted to see if that could have been the case.
- Same here! Don't have Java installed as well. But I guess Java isn't really needed when it comes to programs like Archive_next. I was also lucky that I can read a little bit of German, else I wouldn't have figured out what to do.
- I went searching for the Directx 9 reinstalling, and they mentioned I had to restore my system to when I didn't had Directx 9 on my computer. I wasn't going to take that risk because the Directx versions were the first thing I installed when I just bootcamped my computer to windows. But I found a site that told me to delete the folder in the registry (which wasn't the first time doing so, since I had to do the similar thing with other installed programs before.) So I did that correctly as well.
And with all that done, I restarted my computer after every update or installed program that was needed. Also with programs that didn't ask to restart my computer, like Directx. Now the error that it always gives me (which was first a driver error because I didn't had my drivers installed to see if it mattered, but it did.):
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ARchive_neXt.arxForm.arxDrawMesh()
at ARchive_neXt.arxForm.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
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ARchive_neXt
Assembly Version: 3.2.7.0
Win32 Version: 3.02.07.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/TBotR/ARchive_neXt/ARchive_neXt.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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Microsoft.DirectX
Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
Win32 Version: 5.04.00.2904
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.DirectX/1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35/Microsoft.DirectX.dll
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Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D
Assembly Version: 1.0.2902.0
Win32 Version: 9.05.132.0000
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D/1.0.2902.0__31bf3856ad364e35/Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.dll
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Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX
Assembly Version: 1.0.2911.0
Win32 Version: 9.12.589.0000
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC/Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX/1.0.2911.0__31bf3856ad364e35/Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3DX.dll
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Accessibility
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Accessibility/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Accessibility.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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System.Core
Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 4.6.1067.0 built by: NETFXREL3STAGE
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll
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ArchiveX
Assembly Version: 2.9.7.0
Win32 Version: 2.09.07.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/TBotR/ARchive_neXt/ArchiveX.DLL
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FreeImageNET
Assembly Version: 3.11.0.0
Win32 Version: 3.11.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/TBotR/ARchive_neXt/FreeImageNET.DLL
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Microsoft.VisualC
Assembly Version: 10.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 12.00.52512.0 built by: VSWINSERVICING
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualC/v4.0_10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualC.dll
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Now I know this error appears because it can't load the textures, as someone ever mentioned before. But maybe it's a bit helpful.