RUNNING WITH RIFLES
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[Fixed] Unable to play without administrator rights
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Author:  dwi [ Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:55 am ]
Post subject:  [Fixed] Unable to play without administrator rights
Hello,
I played RwR at home, but I don’t have that much powerful HW, so I want to play it elsewhere (let’s call it PC2). Unfortunetly I don’t have Administrator rights on PC2, so I tried some workaround.

1) Installed RwR on my computer and copied whole folder to PC2, but when I tried to start the game.
2) rwr_config.exe: I got problem, because of d3dx9_42.dll was missing. PC2 is Windows 7 with i3 CPU with integrated Intel HD Graphics 2000 with DirectX 11 installed (according to dxdiag).
3) rwr_game.exe: OpenAL32.dll missing. Obviously, I had no rights to install OpenAL, so I copied OpenAL32.dll and wrap_oal.dll from elsewhere and tried to run the game again.
4) Now both executables are throwing error with missing of d3dx9_42.dll.
5) I tried to put in RwR directory of d3dx9_42.dll and all others of d3dx9_*.dll but with no luck.
6) Game “launches”, but after few seconds of black screen in RwR windows I get “Application stopped responding” window with only one available option -> Terminate App

Tried to solve compatibility issues inside windows, but with no luck.

So my question is: Is there any way, how to make Running with Rifles working on Windows without Administration rights/Portable app)?

Including rwr_game.log from C:\ProgramData\Running with rifles\ directory.

Thanks for answer!

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Author:  pasik [ Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Unable to play without administrator rights
Executing RWR should be possible without admin rights. Obviously it is still dependent on having 1) the latest DirectX 9 2) OpenAL 3) MSVC++ 2008 runtime 4) working graphics drivers installed.

The earlier cases of getting a crash at rendering the first frame were about graphics driver issues; I'm fairly sure you'd need admin rights to update the driver though.

Other than that, 3-5 could be ok basically, but I'd still recommend updating DirectX 9 on the computer the usual way: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... aspx?id=35, no need to have a separate d3dx9_42.dll around in the game folder.

I guess this doesn't help you much in the end, if you really can't get the admin person to update PC2.
Author:  dwi [ Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Unable to play without administrator rights
So there is no way how to play RwR on Windows with fully working installed Directx 11? Ouch, thats bad. There is no easy way to make it working with newer directx? I found some game with RenderSystem_Direct3D11.dll and RenderSystem_Direct3D10.dll so they did it.

Sorry for this post, I'm not game developer and I have absolutely no idea, how much work this takes or how this directx thingies even works :)
Author:  pasik [ Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Unable to play without administrator rights
dwi wrote:
So there is no way how to play RwR on Windows with fully working installed Directx 11? Ouch, thats bad. There is no easy way to make it working with newer directx? I found some game with RenderSystem_Direct3D11.dll and RenderSystem_Direct3D10.dll so they did it.

Sorry for this post, I'm not game developer and I have absolutely no idea, how much work this takes or how this directx thingies even works :)


No need to be sorry :) People that have GPUs that can do DirectX 10 or 11 usually also have DirectX 9 runtime installed, or at least can install it when needed; the different versions can coexist.

So, I'm fairly sure RWR won't have support for DirectX 11. I started working with RWR back in early 2011, when the latest stable Ogre3D build had just DirectX 9 and GL support out of the box -- not sure what would be the case with Ogre3D 1.8 now. I have no intention to upgrade to newer render systems as they don't really provide functionality RWR would hugely benefit from, as far as I know, and I'm sure I would face a bunch of compatibility issues with the existing implementation and I really don't want to go in there.

Also, a lot of people are wanting to play RWR with their "crappy old laptops" which surely don't support anything beyond DirectX 9 so it certainly seems like a good overall target for RWR.
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