String error on startup

[JamesMiller]

Hi Guys,


I did originally report this a month ago here: viewtopic.php?p=36628#p36628 but it seems my string error is not being caused by FMOD like the OP in that thread so i thought it best to start another one.

Basically, when launching the game i get this:



Hitting retry gives me this:



my log.txt consists of this:

  Code:

Starting initialization process...
Loading User Settings
Loading Player Settings...
Player Name is: JamesMiller
No Unit Settings, Defaulting to Metric
Loading Display Settings from XML
--------------------------------------
Display Settings: 
Loop!
Loop!


and my DxDiag is attached. I've not been able to play automation for the last month. I'm a Sad panda

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks,

[Pleb]

Try uninstalling, deleting your Documents/Automation folder, and reinstalling and running the cleaner tool. It seems to work for most people .

[JamesMiller]

Nope, tried all that. I've used the cleaner, tried manually deleting the folders, tried installing it elsewhere. nothing seems to work it's been like this since the last update pretty much.

[JamesMiller]

Hi Guys,

Still unable to play this I installed the b1623 patch and i get this error:



any ideas guys? anyone?

[JamesMiller]

Oh,

I've just figured it out! It was my MY documents folder. Standard location (windows 8.1) is c:\users\[user name]\Documents but I'd moved mine to my server (mapped to z:). It seems automation doesnt like this as it works once i restore the default location


Obviously i cant leave it like this but at least i know what to do to get automation running!

[Killrob]

I assume you have tried deactivating all kinds of gfx options in the launcher?