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When i try to load 4.3, it come up fine, until i try to play, as soon as i load its just black, running fine, no graphics
When i try to load 4.1, it says "The program cant start because MSVCR100.dll is missing from your... and so on
with 4.1 i have tried the wiki page, and got C++ 64bit, i have the card: AMD Turion X2 Ultra 64 in the ATI Radeon series.
I've looked at a lot of solutions, but nothing works.
3.1 works, but i am in no big rush to play it.

Help?

(Newbie error alert)

You need to install the latest version of the Microsoft C++ Distrubution Pack

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5555 i believe

rubenwardy wrote:(Newbie error alert)

You need to install the latest version of the Microsoft C++ Distrubution Pack

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5555 i believe

Thanks alot, i got the Visual C++, and 4.1 works! 4.3, im not sure yet.

Thanks!

Ugh, new problem. this time, its says in the console bit, "Error opening chunk metadata"
also, i have two computers,
a stationary windows XP and a laptop running windows 7
4.1 works on stationary (secondary) computer
4.1 loads on laptop (primary), but after, 2-3 seconds i get the metadata error,
4.3 doesn't work on stationary computer.

Help!

Your map is screwed, you are best off making a new one, since this happens between releases.

Problem is, when i click the new map button, it opens new map gui, and try to make a new map, click create, nothing happens.
i just want to get a stable MT version going without bugs so i can start getting mods, :|
im going to try 4.3, since 4.1 isn't quite stable, hopefully, black screen doe not appear.


Thanks for the Answers

Lol, come to think about it, ive probbaly had the most minetest errors of Anyone. 6 now.

... I Just looked at it, tried to open 4.1, and the one and only map i have worked, load properly, no datawhacko stuff
i can never get servers to join, if i type it wrong, it gives me errors and if i type it right, it stops responding and says, "Minetest.exe is not working(responding whatever). Windows is searching for a solution." in another window.
Just some new information.


-Partly Problem Solved-
It was where i put 4.1 that caused it to crash, and the was the map button problem, Almost there!

COMPLETION!
that was the bug(s),
The map create didnt work becuase i had it in the wrong place.
4.3 Showed up blank becuase i didnt have Microsoft C++ Distribution Pack.
The map problem happened to both 4.3 and 4.1 becuase they were both in the same directory.

Thank You, Jordach and rubenwardy for helping me,

:D

I seem to have a few issues with loading as well. Online servers will load just fine, but when I try to play my single player map I just made, the game gets stuck on the black loading screen. My version is 0.4.3 if that helps.

try this http://minetest.net/packages/win32/ use 0.4.dev 603 it works fine