When I try to launch the game from Steam instead I get an error announcement that has a title "An exeption has occured" and in the message it reads "invalid string position". During 0.97 the game worked fine. Then I uninstalled it an reinstalled when 0.98 came which was also when I started to have this problem.

I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I did do a quick search.

Does the config still run ok?

You could send me your log files from %appdata%\Running with rifles\, that's rwr_game.log and rwr_config.log, to pasi.kainiemi@modulaatio.com.

I tried the config and it launched fine that way. It's odd because I use to get same problem from there. You might have magical powers.