Exhibit A: "Dwarfs has stopped working" - The Windows Crash Screen
Symptom: The game installs fine, but crashes on startup.
Solution: Try to install .NET and XNA manually. Most likely it's the XNA upload so start with that, you can follow the link below.
XNA 4,0
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
.NET
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21
Exhibit B: "Error Code 2908" - The Missing Gatekeeper
Symptoms: You try to install XNA but get this error instead. This one is a blast.
Solution: Ten easy steps, compiled by the legendary poet Killin_Frenzy
0. Make sure you have installed the framework 4.0
1. Check out the version of mscoree.dll in c:\windows\system32. If it's 2.0.50727.4927, then continue.
2. Fiddle with permissions of this dll (Properties>>Security>>Advanced>>Change permissions>>Add>>$$Your user name$$>>OK>>OK>>OK
3. Rename it to mscoree.dll.old
(If you have windows 7 x64 then do the same in 1-3 ALSO with c:\windows\syswow64\mscoree.dll)
4. Open the file dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en) with any extractor and extract it to any folder
5. Open the folder
6. Find the file netfx_Core.mzz and rename it with netfx_Core.zip and open with extractor
7. Extract the file _003_mscoree_dll_x86 (and if you have windows 7 x64 ALSO the _003_mscoree_dll_amd64)
8a. X64: Rename _003_mscoree_dll_amd64 to mscoree.dll and copy it to c:\windows\system32
8b. X86: Rename _003_mscoree_dll_x86 to mscoree.dll and copy it to c:\windows\system32
9a. X64: Rename _003_mscoree_dll_x86 to mscoree.dll and copy it to c:\windows\syswow64
10. No restart needed. Just install the x64 prereqs and next visual studio as it was ment to be. (In this case it's XNA 3.1)
Exhibit C: "Ooops, sorry about this!" - The Eternal Sadness
Symptoms: You start the game, and it runs, but immediately or almost immediately, it crashes into the in-game crash screen. It says that you can press enter or escape to send a crash report, but it's lying -- you can't do either!
This rare startup bug is caused by bad feng shui in your machine and is very likely related to your sound card. Most common habitat is in computers with Vista64 and a sound card of Sound Blaster technology.
Solution: If you're lucky, updating your sound drivers. If you're not, switching to on-board audio.
Exhibit D: "..." - The Peek-a-Boo of Doom
Symptoms: The game 'starts', and the Dwarfs!? icon appears for a split second before disappearing without any kind of crash screen.
Solution: This error is very rare, and has no known weakness. We have top men on the job.
If you have a startup issue not related to these breeds, or have additional information for our Buggydex, feel free to make a new thread.
Symptom: The game installs fine, but crashes on startup.
Solution: Try to install .NET and XNA manually. Most likely it's the XNA upload so start with that, you can follow the link below.
XNA 4,0
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
.NET
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21
Exhibit B: "Error Code 2908" - The Missing Gatekeeper
Symptoms: You try to install XNA but get this error instead. This one is a blast.
Solution: Ten easy steps, compiled by the legendary poet Killin_Frenzy
0. Make sure you have installed the framework 4.0
1. Check out the version of mscoree.dll in c:\windows\system32. If it's 2.0.50727.4927, then continue.
2. Fiddle with permissions of this dll (Properties>>Security>>Advanced>>Change permissions>>Add>>$$Your user name$$>>OK>>OK>>OK
3. Rename it to mscoree.dll.old
(If you have windows 7 x64 then do the same in 1-3 ALSO with c:\windows\syswow64\mscoree.dll)
4. Open the file dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en) with any extractor and extract it to any folder
5. Open the folder
6. Find the file netfx_Core.mzz and rename it with netfx_Core.zip and open with extractor
7. Extract the file _003_mscoree_dll_x86 (and if you have windows 7 x64 ALSO the _003_mscoree_dll_amd64)
8a. X64: Rename _003_mscoree_dll_amd64 to mscoree.dll and copy it to c:\windows\system32
8b. X86: Rename _003_mscoree_dll_x86 to mscoree.dll and copy it to c:\windows\system32
9a. X64: Rename _003_mscoree_dll_x86 to mscoree.dll and copy it to c:\windows\syswow64
10. No restart needed. Just install the x64 prereqs and next visual studio as it was ment to be. (In this case it's XNA 3.1)
Exhibit C: "Ooops, sorry about this!" - The Eternal Sadness
Symptoms: You start the game, and it runs, but immediately or almost immediately, it crashes into the in-game crash screen. It says that you can press enter or escape to send a crash report, but it's lying -- you can't do either!
This rare startup bug is caused by bad feng shui in your machine and is very likely related to your sound card. Most common habitat is in computers with Vista64 and a sound card of Sound Blaster technology.
Solution: If you're lucky, updating your sound drivers. If you're not, switching to on-board audio.
Exhibit D: "..." - The Peek-a-Boo of Doom
Symptoms: The game 'starts', and the Dwarfs!? icon appears for a split second before disappearing without any kind of crash screen.
Solution: This error is very rare, and has no known weakness. We have top men on the job.
If you have a startup issue not related to these breeds, or have additional information for our Buggydex, feel free to make a new thread.
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