Galactic Arms Race - Possible solution to crashes. ( Found a working solution - Approved by dev )

9 hours of work for me too, so you're not alone.

I think when it's released on Steam officially, the devs will probably put the installers for those stuff in the game files you download. For now, I'll see if I can run it.

EDIT: It does install the XNA framework if you don't have it.

It has to do with XNA and .Net but reinstalling them properly doesn't do it. And the demo version of the game crashes the same way, with the same error...

Found in another forum

"well it doesn't work for me either, I have installed the XNA and updated my graphics drivers. just crashes right away.

SOULTION (worked fr me): see if your regional settings differ from English(USA), specifically the way floating point numbers are formatted. if so, setting to English(USA) might help. (this is in control panel/regional settings)"

So after trying and managing to play it, I'll post my important specs and system settings here.
Core i7 first gen @2.67GHz per actual core(4 virtual)
4GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 310M
Enough free space on both the Windows drive and the intall drive
Japanese Region(Windows 7)

That's about all the stuff I need to share.

EDIT: I forgotten to state I also had Silverlight and the .NET framework at the start.

Actually, it's not XNA, it's the game triggering an unknown exception with absolutely no clue on the issue.

It seems the issue is that we have too high resolution monitor :x Mine is 2560x1440. Source : https://groups.google.com/d/msg/galacticarmsrace/ehOlGjyxWvM/oJb8etC0l4wJ

The regional setting bug is already fixed : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/galacticarmsrace/k2hSDlOc1NU

The game is not playable in France :-(
It's for QWERTY keyboard only ! We have AZERTY keyboard and it's not possible to change the keys in the game.

Apparently i fixed my issue. The thing i did was truly my last solution : Switched from my default Steam place ( D:\ ) to C:\Program Files\ where i made a new folder "SteamLibrary" ... apparently this made my game work flawlessly.

Just FYI: you shouldn't need Silverlight to run the game. I've never installed it or written a line of Silverlight code. ;)

A patch was released tonight, the game works now for me, awesome ! :D

I download net.framework 4 . Thanks :D game work

I'll have to try that when I get home. In Windows 8, I have it installed to my default Steam folder, which is on Another drive (where Steam is also installed), but when I start up it will just load a black screen (the music plays) and if I move the mouse around (it's invisible) occasionally I can hear a sound like I am passing over a button. If I alt-tab out, and alt-tab back in, it will fix it so it displays properly. Maybe if I install those updates it will help unless they came with Win 8. I have my latest video card drivers (nvidia).