[Ashtaroth]

Firstly, hi everyone! I was recently told about Diaspora, and from everything I've read or seen it looks really good. I downloaded it today, but can't get it running- every time I try I get the 'Initializing Systems' screen for a second, and then it crashes, returning this error:


ERANGE: String error. Please Report.
Trying to put into 127 byte buffer:
Exp_Fighter_Vapor_0000.dds
ntdll.dll! KiFastSystemCallRet
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes
kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
SHELL32.dll! StrStrW + 3558435 bytes
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
<no module>! <no symbol>
SHELL32.dll! Ordinal813 + 40832 bytes
<no module>! <no symbol>
fs2_open_Diaspora_R1.exe! <no symbol>


Sorry if there's already another thread on this- I tried searching, but didn't find anything. If anyone knows how to fix this, that'd be great, cheers 

[General Battuta]

I'm going to guess, blindly, that your install path is too long. Try moving your install to C:/Games/Diaspora.

[Ashtaroth]

I'm going to guess, blindly, that your install path is too long. Try moving your install to C:/Games/Diaspora.

..You genius, that works great, thanks a bunch I apparently am far too obsessed with organising all the files on my computer, since my install path was some 10 folders deep..
anyways, thanks for the quick response.

[headdie]

since my install path was some 10 folders deep..

say WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!

[Ashtaroth]

since my install path was some 10 folders deep..

say WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!

C:/Users/[NAME]/Stuff/Games/Space Sim/Freespace 2/Mods/Diaspora/

Ok, so 8 folders. That's totally reasonable, right, guys? right?
...no?

[RogueAvenger]

C:/Users/[NAME]/Stuff/Games/Space Sim/Freespace 2/Mods/Diaspora/

Ok, so 8 folders. That's totally reasonable, right, guys? right?
...no?

Mother if OCD ;P

[Ashtaroth]

C:/Users/[NAME]/Stuff/Games/Space Sim/Freespace 2/Mods/Diaspora/

Ok, so 8 folders. That's totally reasonable, right, guys? right?
...no?

Mother if OCD ;P

At least I can find any game, song, video, document or any other type of file on my computer in under 20 seconds... That's a good thing, right? :O
I think I need help...

[karajorma]

Part of me is annoyed at Diaspora being under Freespace/Mods/

[Ashtaroth]

Part of me is annoyed at Diaspora being under Freespace/Mods/

Yeah, I know it's standalone, but it's derived from freespace, by whatever my brain uses in lieu of actual logic, so into that folder it goes

[Ace]

At the same time if the Launcher can't read stuff that deep it needs to get fixed.

[General Battuta]

At the same time if the Launcher can't read stuff that deep it needs to get fixed.

IIRC it's not the launcher, it's the game engine itself. There's a character limit on the size of the paths it'll read.

[Echelon9]

At the same time if the Launcher can't read stuff that deep it needs to get fixed.

IIRC it's not the launcher, it's the game engine itself. There's a character limit on the size of the paths it'll read.

Correct.

[MatthTheGeek]

And it's bad practive anyway to put stuff into that many folders, so I don't think anyone is going to fix it anytime soon

[jr2]

Hmm.  If you really really wanted to, you could use mklink to find a way around this, right?

Start > type cmd > right-click cmd, click "run as administrator"

Code: [Select]

mklink /d C:\Games\Diaspora C:\Users\[NAME]\Stuff\Games\Space Sim\Freespace 2\Mods\Diaspora
Change shortcuts to point to c:\games\Diaspora

Problem go bye-bye?