Installer Error
by Chris Elliott · in Torque X 2D · 12/11/2006 (8:09 pm) · 9 replies
Hi, when I installed the Torque X open beta at the end it has an error:
Failed to open visual studio express registry key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VCSExpress\8.0
The reason for that I believe is it looks in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE where my VCSExpress key is in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
So I copied the key from HKEY_CURRENT_USER into the same place in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and it came up with a different error:
'Unable to find Path registry key in SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VCSExpress\8.0'
There is no Path key in there. I tried creating one but it didn't work.
The result is it didn't install the starter kits into Visual Studio Express so I cant create a project from them.
A possible reason could be that I have Visual Studio 2005 installed as well as C# Express.
I cant figure out how to install the starter kits manually, I put them in the seemingly right place but they don't show up so if you could fix it that would be great.
Failed to open visual studio express registry key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VCSExpress\8.0
The reason for that I believe is it looks in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE where my VCSExpress key is in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
So I copied the key from HKEY_CURRENT_USER into the same place in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and it came up with a different error:
'Unable to find Path registry key in SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VCSExpress\8.0'
There is no Path key in there. I tried creating one but it didn't work.
The result is it didn't install the starter kits into Visual Studio Express so I cant create a project from them.
A possible reason could be that I have Visual Studio 2005 installed as well as C# Express.
I cant figure out how to install the starter kits manually, I put them in the seemingly right place but they don't show up so if you could fix it that would be great.
#2
12/11/2006 (8:27 pm)
Hmm the only other thing could be I have Windows x64.
#3
12/11/2006 (8:28 pm)
We've had some initial reports in the closed beta regarding the 64 bit registry, and are looking into the issue.
#4
I tried reinstalling visual c# and xna game studio 1.0 but it did not help.
12/12/2006 (12:07 pm)
I can confirm this problem, I am running winxp 64 bit and have the same installation problem.I tried reinstalling visual c# and xna game studio 1.0 but it did not help.
#5
12/12/2006 (2:26 pm)
We'll be posting an updated installer today that fixes the win64 issues.
#6
12/20/2006 (11:17 am)
Is the updated installer available for download for x64 users? 
#8
You can work round the vast majority of the "issues" the missing keys cause:
To run the Templates:
Copy (the template files):
C:\Program Files (x86)\TorqueXOpenBeta-1.0.1.1\*.zip
To
My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
This will make all the TorqueX demo templates appear under "My Templates" in XSE
To run the examples on the PC
Remove the "broken" reference and add:
C:\Program Files (x86)\TorqueXOpenBeta-1.0.1.1\Bin\References\x86\GarageGames.TorqueX.Framework.dll
This allows the PC Demos to compile and run fine.
To run on the XBox 360
Although i'm not sure this is 100% correct, but if you run "Xbox Project Generator" on a demo project created as above. Open it in manually XSE (the button doesn't work) and then add
C:\Program Files (x86)\TorqueXOpenBeta-1.0.1.1\Bin\References\Xbox 360\GarageGames.TorqueX.Framework.dll
They deploy and work fine.
Using the above tricks you can adapt all the tutorials examples etc.
It's a great product, can't wait to buy the Pro version!
01/01/2007 (11:16 am)
It doesn't seem to have been updated (come on it's Christmas / New Year)You can work round the vast majority of the "issues" the missing keys cause:
To run the Templates:
Copy (the template files):
C:\Program Files (x86)\TorqueXOpenBeta-1.0.1.1\*.zip
To
My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#
This will make all the TorqueX demo templates appear under "My Templates" in XSE
To run the examples on the PC
Remove the "broken" reference and add:
C:\Program Files (x86)\TorqueXOpenBeta-1.0.1.1\Bin\References\x86\GarageGames.TorqueX.Framework.dll
This allows the PC Demos to compile and run fine.
To run on the XBox 360
Although i'm not sure this is 100% correct, but if you run "Xbox Project Generator" on a demo project created as above. Open it in manually XSE (the button doesn't work) and then add
C:\Program Files (x86)\TorqueXOpenBeta-1.0.1.1\Bin\References\Xbox 360\GarageGames.TorqueX.Framework.dll
They deploy and work fine.
Using the above tricks you can adapt all the tutorials examples etc.
It's a great product, can't wait to buy the Pro version!
#9
01/03/2007 (3:12 pm)
There was supposed to be an installer uploaded a long time ago that fixes this issue. I'll check to see why that didn't happen. In any case I think Gareth's steps pretty much outline what needs to be done.
Torque Owner Trent