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alright, this ends now

November 14th 2017, 08:39 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
why in the hell can't i windinkedit anymore? i load up a dmod, press space to render all the squares - crash. i select an individual square to zoom into it - crash. open sprites grid? CRASH. i think there's been times i can render a screen, but making or editing anything is impossible. all versions of windinkedit do this. freedinkedit doesn't though. even a skeleton nukes itself.

maybe there's something ducked with the installation. since dink is so unpredictable about when it will bug out and take a massive shit, i've probably moved my entire dink folder to the desktop, to program files and back to the desktop. some vista thing that persisted. or if it didn't persist, some of it did. the desktop seems to be the best place to put dink, otherwise the dmods install...somewhere. just somewhere.

i'll open regular dfarc and it asks to specify where dink.exe is. every time. no idea why since the two are in the same spot. back whenever, i posted a thread about the registry. it doesn't seem to be registry related now, though. i don't even know where that registry thread i make is.

i don't even know what other information i could possibly give. it's not like it writes a crash log anywhere. i think leprochaun once said to go through and comment out everything in the dink.ini file until i find what line is causing it. but it's in every dmod. not every dmod suddenly has a faulty line somewhere.
November 14th 2017, 08:45 PM
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kerrek
Peasant He/Him United States
oao 
install gentoo
November 14th 2017, 09:15 PM
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yeoldetoast
Peasant They/Them Australia
LOOK UPON MY DEFORMED FACE! 
install gentoo
November 14th 2017, 09:29 PM
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leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
Responsible for making things not look like ass 
install gentoo
November 14th 2017, 10:05 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
install gentoo
November 15th 2017, 12:05 AM
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leprochaun
Peasant He/Him Japan bloop
Responsible for making things not look like ass 
I actually don't know what your problem is. The only issue I've ever had with WDE is the fact that it will always crash when trying to load a 24bit image. Your issue is probably something weird with the installation. I'd recommend removing all your dink stuff and reinstalling. It could have something to do with you moving the dink folder since it's trying to access things it no longer has a path to.
November 15th 2017, 12:08 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
also i can load all the default tiles. and it's not asking for dink.exe's directory anymore.

muh dink.ini
November 17th 2017, 12:42 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
fun fact, dink stuff takes up no space at all, so feel free to download all of it you can

why it's taking forever to move shit from one part of c:/ to another? who knows. my ponies folder is huge and moved instantly. welcome to windows.

edit: uninstalled, reinstalled. still doesn't work. duck it. it's over.
November 17th 2017, 02:51 PM
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kerrek
Peasant He/Him United States
oao 
install gentoo
December 6th 2017, 04:46 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
alright, let's try something new. here's the error report for windinkedit+2 from event viewer -

Faulting application name: WinDinkeditPlus2.exe, version: 2.3.2.0, time stamp: 0x4f5b2866
Faulting module name: WinDinkeditPlus2.exe, version: 2.3.2.0, time stamp: 0x4f5b2866
Exception code: 0xc0000417
Fault offset: 0x00145937
Faulting process id: 0x1e20
Faulting application start time: 0x01d36edb3c673a04
Faulting application path: C:\Users\The Kind Knido\Desktop\World of Perfect\Dink Smallwood\WinDinkeditPlus2.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Users\The Kind Knido\Desktop\World of Perfect\Dink Smallwood\WinDinkeditPlus2.exe
Report Id: 7adc308c-dace-11e7-8257-00ac9f1840b4

and now the information report

Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: BEX
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: WinDinkeditPlus2.exe
P2: 2.3.2.0
P3: 4f5b2866
P4: WinDinkeditPlus2.exe
P5: 2.3.2.0
P6: 4f5b2866
P7: 00145937
P8: c0000417
P9: 00000000
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\The Kind Knido\AppData\Local\Temp\WERA498.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\The Kind Knido\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_WinDinkeditPlus2_284ad86457e122c57fcd6a5ea214c41c5a93557_043fac36

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 7adc308c-dace-11e7-8257-00ac9f1840b4
Report Status: 1
December 6th 2017, 09:46 PM
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Default
Ghost They/Them
 
... And you've tried pressing space to render the tile display for any other Dmod/original Dink too?
December 6th 2017, 09:49 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
yus
December 7th 2017, 12:25 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
the error code, 0xc0000417 is related to misconfigured system files. but since windinkedit+2 (and other editors) aren't system files, i assume it can apply to other shit.

but, if it's the dink.ini, that wouldn't make sense. dmods load and run fine and don't crash when whatever offending sprites are called to be drawn. and freedinkedit doesn't crash when rendering screens.

the registry key is also pointing to dink's installation, so it can't be that.
December 7th 2017, 10:52 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
dinkedit works too, actually.

edit: i can't even load a new ducking screen

edit: are we sure the windinkedit+2 we have on the site isn't just corrupt? this shit used to work. there's no installation process and therefore, no registry entry to check/fix. i've replaced the .exe multiple times. there is literally no reason this should be happening unless windinkedit+2 itself it broken.

edit: OR NO, WINDINKEDIT+ DOESN'T WORK EITHER WHY THE DUCK AM I THE ONLY ONE TO RUN INTO SO MANY DUCKING ISSUES

edit: AND NEITHER DOES DUCKIN WINDUCKINDINKDUCKEDIT. WHY

edit: https://imgur.com/a/tEXLf i can load these...but again, i can't load a blank screen even though there are blank screens visible in the first one...

edit: ok, i CAN view blank screens, just not in the dmod i wanna edit...or in end of the world...or cloud castle 2..or call to greatness <_<

edit: but in bored of the rings, i can render all this before it dies and yes, i have deleted dink (moved dmods and other shit to another folder temporarily though), and reinstalled dink. i've also tried installing dink over itself. the .ini should be totally fine. i mean, dmods don't crash due to any .ini bullshit. and it's only the windinkedit line doing it..

edit: dink and the chins loads just fine...joy.

edit: i used windinkedit+2 to unpack all the dir.ff files in the original game. loaded the whole map. still crashes when trying to load the map for my shitty dmod, though...

edit: packed to dir.ff files in my shitty dmod. didn't work. unpacked. still doesn't work.
December 8th 2017, 03:22 PM
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quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
It's not broken, the dmods you listed renders fine for me.
December 8th 2017, 04:15 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
yeah, it's just the windinkedits doing this shit
December 8th 2017, 09:20 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
dink smallwood: achievement unlocked edition also doesn't load despite the original game sharing the exact same map and loading just fine.
December 10th 2017, 12:20 AM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
i found another post on here about how i moved the dink folder over to program files and it fixed everything, but i couldn't move it until recently since windows was claiming that the folder or a file in it was in use by something. i crashed for the 9001st time recently, so i could move it.

and yeah, it does fix everything. i guess now i might discover why i moved it back to the desktop before. i did go and change the registry key and override directory, though. and located the dink installation again when dfarc or windinkedit+2 prompted me. whichever it was.

still, what in the duck was going on
December 10th 2017, 12:15 PM
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Skurn
Peasant He/Him Equatorial Guinea duck bloop
can't flim flam the glim glam 
oh, the ducking horrendous anti-consumer permissions bullshit. that's probably why.