PLEASE HELP ME

[ScOrPiO ZaiB]

I reinstalled the game and I checked the files which you told me all files are present but its still coming ........what the hell is the problem with my computer :?

[thelusiv]

Hmmm, could you try setting your texture size to large instead of medium in VDrift.config and tell us if that fixes the problem?

[btd]

I just downloaded the minimal Windows installer today, and encountered exactly this problem (a blocky mess where the menu text should be). In my case it turned out to be a missing dll: libpng13.dll (the installer seems to have libpng12.dll instead?)

[FFuser]

I just downloaded the minimal Windows installer today, and encountered exactly this problem (a blocky mess where the menu text should be). In my case it turned out to be a missing dll: libpng13.dll (the installer seems to have libpng12.dll instead?)

so it works for you if you hace the libpng13.dll?

[btd]

so it works for you if you hace the libpng13.dll?

Yes, if I put libpng13.dll in the VDrift folder, everything works perfectly.

It also works without libpng13.dll, if I replace SDL_image.dll with the one from the zip you posted in this thread. So my guess is that it's just a mismatch between the versions of SDL and libpng in the installer, and replacing one library or the other seems to fix it.

[thelusiv]

btd, great work finding this. What made you think to change libpng?

[btd]

What made you think to change libpng?

Process Monitor I was actually trying to figure out where the game was looking for the textures, but noticed the "file not found" errors for the missing dll instead.

[thelusiv]

Interesting, I've never played around with that before. Thanks again!

[thelusiv]

So, should we repackage the Windows version with this libpng? Or is there a better solution? It seems folks are having problems installing on Windows more often than not. Of course, it's hard to tell because people don't always report when things work well...

We need to either come up with a package for Windows that will work for everyone, or at least figure out the best way to reliably fix the packages that we have up for download now, and write down instructions we can point people to when they have these problems.

[IanR]

I'm having this same problem...Where do I find the correct file in order to get the game to work?

[Kobra]

where do you get the .net framework????

[thelusiv]

http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+.net+framework

From Microsoft's site, which is linked from the google search...there are two different versions, I'm not sure which one you need. wmd772, who originally figured out that this fixed things for him, said that he used version 2.0. Here's the post regarding that:

http://vdrift.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=4549#4549

[ScOrPiO ZaiB]

Hello everyone ............ actually i was so busy in my work that i didnt had time to read the posts ........... But now im very happy that you people got the solution .............. the game is running perfect in my computer ............ Im very much excited to play this game .............

Thankyou all of you who took interest in this topic specially thelusiv and btd .......

whoever has this problem just change libpng12.dll with libpng13.dll file and you are done