Riley_Kadin

The beta patch... I think the issue was that I hadn't disabled auto-turn, so a unit I had trapped and unable to move was causing my "end turn" button to reject the command. Although I do occasionally have the images on the troop quantity and quality buttons drop to the bottom of the troop training window... Odd. [e digicons]:P[/e]

Just thought I'd mention, Elemental is working like a charm on my desktop. ^_^ I occasionally have certain UI buttons go unresponsive, but restarting the program clears that up fine... Yay! :D Thanks for your help, guys! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Nah, the desktop is 32-bit Vista... 64-bit processor, but that doesn't change anything software-wise. :)

Well, when I finally managed to cheat my way past Windows and rename the folder, it caused Windows to crash on startup. I rolled it back to my restore point, and it's all fine now... I've also installed Elemental on my other computer and have it updating now... no errors during the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 install on that one, so it looks like it's gonna work.

Well, it's gonna take a while for Elemental to finish downloading, so there'll probably not be any news for a bit. One of the results from Google said to restart the comp after renaming the folder, so I assume that's not a problem...

Heh, you know that's right. I ended up cheating my way past the up-tight Windows security; I just created a new folder named winsxs.old and am currently moving the contents of the winsxs folder into it. [e digicons]}:)[/e] EDIT: crud, there are some that won't move. Ok, trying something else then... Argh, it's denying me access trying to rename it via command prompt as an administrator. OK here's the plan... After Elemental is done downloading and installing, I'm

UGH. Windows is currently locking me out of being able to rename the winsxs folder. It's even locking me out of setting the permissions on the folder. So, I'm going to have to figure out a way to outwit Windows and reconfigure the permissions...

Well, Elemental is currently reinstalling... it has to re-download, though, so it's gonna take a while. :( In the meantime, I'll try to get those other fixes going.

Ugh. Ok, here goes, reinstalling elemental again...

Ugh, I seem to be getting another error when trying to install the C++ 2005 redistributable: "Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.VC80.CRT,type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",processorArchitecture="amd64". Please refer to Help and Support for more information. That can't be good. EDIT: more specifically, the ATL update. The SP1 installs fine as far as I can tell...

Ah, here's the thing about those suggestions; I'm running 64-bit Vista on an x64 processor, so most x86 versions won't work.

Hehe, "out of your ELEMENT" huh? :P Yeah, if this one doesn't work, I'll check to see if Vista is completely up to date. EDIT: Ok, quick update here... my Vista install is indeed at SP2. I downloaded the .net framework 4, but it didn't fix the problem. And, finally, I think I the root of the problem is the missing microsoft.vc80.crt file... I can't seem to find it on my computer. Running a file search only found security logs and manifests for the file, but not the file it

Great, just woke up and ready to take another crack at it. :) Ok, I'll try the .net framework 4

Ok, got it. This is what the log says for that particular entry: Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Elemental\Elemental.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.4053" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis. And btw, I'm fairly well-studied in computer tech, so don't be afraid to get technical on me

This is an HP Pavilion laptop, with a Turion X2 64-bit processor, running Vista 64-bit. I disabled my antivirus and firewall before downloading and installing Elemental. I just got the game yesterday, and the problem manifested itself just as soon as I tried to run it.

Just like it says in the title. I've already uninstalled Elemental and reinstalled via Impulse, and no dice. I've downloaded at least 3 different versions of Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable, and even tried the fix that involves directly downloading the related DLL. Help?