Fails to open

TR1Hemi · Rookie Member Joined: Apr 21, 2011 Posts: 14

Last night I downloaded the latest version and it won't open on my Win7 laptop, or my WinXP desktop, or a friends WinVista desktop.

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

Odd, it runs on all three of those OS's that I've tested at my house.

On windows 7 / vista, Try right clicking both executables, open the properties, Compatability tab, and check the Run as an Administrator box.

Make sure XP has the .NET pack installed.

-DallanC

TR1Hemi · Rookie Member Joined: Apr 21, 2011 Posts: 14

Tried that on my Win7 laptop, and my WinXP desktop has all .net installed.

TR1Hemi · Rookie Member Joined: Apr 21, 2011 Posts: 14

It does create the backup folder, although there is nothing in it. Keep in mind these were on puters with no other version of PB installed.

TR1Hemi · Rookie Member Joined: Apr 21, 2011 Posts: 14

On the XP machine it is a filenotfound error.

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

Interesting. It sounds like you are missing files. Are you running the PBPatcher.exe program to make sure all the latest files exist? You should have at least the following files:

PBPatcher.exe
PointBlank.exe
bullets.slk
calibers.slk
cases.slk
powders.slk
primers.slk
target.bmp (plus a few more)

And a folder with HTML help files.

-DallanC

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

AH HA! Found the problem... will get a fix out ASAP. Sorry, it only happens when run for the very first time (a bug in the new data backup feature I just added).

-DallanC

TR1Hemi · Rookie Member Joined: Apr 21, 2011 Posts: 14

I ran the patcher then launch, I ran the .exe, same thing. If I delete the backups folder it will recreate it, but nothing after that.

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

Fixed. Re-run PBPatcher.exe and it will download v2.0.9.2

I am embarassed I didn't catch that bug when I tested the prior version, ah well it was a very easy and quick fix. Thanks for alerting me to the problem!

-DallanC

TR1Hemi · Rookie Member Joined: Apr 21, 2011 Posts: 14

No problem! I am eager to test drive the latest and greatest, the last version I used was 1.0 something.