Game problem.

[PrussianPrince]

I have bought Victoria II a few while ago and I eventually lost the serial key, writen within the box, that have been borrowed to a friend and never got it back. I managed to download the patches and I eventually installed them, worked fine. But as my OS was pretty old I decided to re-place it with a new one. So I reinstalled the OS and re-installed Victoria II.

I tried to upgrade to patch 1.3 I got from their forums, but this time it didn't worked anymore, I got this error anytime I open the game.

 

See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.************** Exception Text **************System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail  at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)  at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()  at launcher.LauncherForm.ButtonFunction(Object sender, EventArgs e)  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)  at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)  at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)  at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)  at System.Windows.Forms.Button.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: 2.0.0.0   Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)   CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll----------------------------------------launcher   Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0   Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0   CodeBase: file:///E:/Victoria%20II/victoria2.exe----------------------------------------System.Windows.Forms   Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0   Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)   CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll----------------------------------------System   Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0   Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)   CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll----------------------------------------System.Drawing   Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0   Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)   CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll----------------------------------------System.Configuration   Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0   Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)   CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll----------------------------------------System.Xml   Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0   Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)   CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll----------------------------------------************** JIT Debugging **************To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for thisapplication or computer (machine.config) must have thejitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.The application must also be compiled with debuggingenabled.For example:<configuration>   <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /></configuration>When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exceptionwill be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computerrather than be handled by this dialog box.

 

 

 

Picture for any eventuality:

 

 

There's no laptop problem, nor OS problem, as it was the same as I had before. I think I need to install something, but I don't know what, or what I need to do to fix it.

Can you help me?

[Wolf68k]

One thing I might do is uninstall and reinstall the game and then run it before patching to see what happens.

However before that both that screen shot and the text you posted in the code box tells you want to do to find out more of what's going on.

The text starts off with: Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail

So do that.

 

Then it says to make a change to the machine.config file which I assume is a file in the game's folder. In there you do what is describes to turn on the debugger.

 

Their forums might be the best place to get help too. There you'll have their dev's and other more knowledgeable people that know the game can better help you.

I also noticed at their forums the 1.3 patch is a beta patch, so that could be part of the problem.

The only patch that Filefront.com has 1.2 which one can assume is the official patch out now and the latest one you need to really worry about

 

[PrussianPrince]

My topic on the forums is untouched, that's why I appealed here. And as I said, before, the 1.3b patches worked, but after the reinstall of my OS, it didn't anymore.

Edited March 23, 2011 by PrussianPrince