[r62] crashed when started in XP/SP2/IE8

I downloaded construct2_62 and installed.

However, when I started it, it ran and crashed, a pop window showed as follows:

"Construct2 (free edition test build) - Start page: Construct2.exe - The Application error"

"0x00448f47" by reference of address "0x00000004". It can't be "read"

Press OK to stop the application

Press cancel to debug

I clear my cache and tried to reinstall the setup file, but the result is the same. I tried 61, 60, 59, .... only 53 is OK.

My system is XP/SP2/IE8/

My pc is Intel celeron 550 2.0G / Ram 2G/ Mobil Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset Family

What might be the problem? I tried many days.

And How can I solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Best wishes!

I guess updating to SP3 could be a good start. Not sure if it is absolutely necessary but it can't hurt to have your OS fully up to date. (and I can assure you C2 works with SP3)

Ashley will be able to tell you more.

Yeah, I'm not sure all C2's features work on SP2. Upgrade to SP3 and see if that fixes it.

Thanks for your answering.

However, after I update to sp3, the problem is still the same.

Is there still any solution that I can try?

Best wishes!

I tried again, and I found that

starting from r56, I can't start the software correctly.

Under 55 (included), all the versions are OK.

And I found from r56, the size of the software becomes 9mb larger. Is that because of the updating?

Thanks!

Hmm - r56 introduced the new welcome screen. (It's a larger file just because we included more examples.)

You could try disabling it. Open regedit, and open

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scirra\Construct2\Preferences

Right click the space on the right and select New > DWORD value. Name it HideStartPage, and set its value to 1.

Does that help?

Thanks to Ashley. <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

It really works.

After I hide the start page, everything goes well.

Thanks.

I tried this software for about 4 days. And I found this software is really very potential. For I used yoyogames game maker for several years and I found construct2 is more user-friendly. However, it seems that the reference books are still in lack. Hope that we can have more detailed reference books.

Anyway, this software is excellent. Thanks for your hard-working.