ADVAPI32.DLL and RepoRtEventW

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February 22, 2009 9:55 PM from

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As another beta is out for Entrenchement I went to install it. However you have to uninstall first. (VERY BAD, ITS A HUGE DOWNLOAD!) OK no problem, so I uninstall and reinstall. Then I go and try to play and I get an error "The procedure entry point RepoRtEventW could not be located in the dynamic link library ADVAPI32.dll". So I went ahead and uninstalled and removed the folder and reinstalled the game again, (Another HUGE DOWNLOAD) but I get the same error. This happens when I play either entrenchment or click on the original game exe. The launcher can come up when I click on that but I then get the error the moment I click on play.

I looked up the DLL, it is part of the windows API. The procedure RepoRtEventW shouldn't have a caps R in the middle of it, but I don't know the API enough to know if it is case sensitive.

OK, so any idea what else I should do about that error?

I have:

Windows Vista 64 bit up to date. AMD Phenom II 940 @ 3 GHz. 8 Gigs 1066 DDR2 Ram. 2 x nVidia Geforce 9800 Video cards. Lots of HDD space. Asus M3N-HT Deluxe Mobo. Soundblaster gamer Xi-Fi.

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Reply #1 February 23, 2009 5:01 PM from

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have you cleraed out both the C:\Program Files(x86)\stardock games\Sins of a solar empire and C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Ironclad games\sins of a solar empire folders after uninstalling?

sins & entrenchment do work on vista 64, trust me.

Reply #2 February 23, 2009 8:21 PM from

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I have had it working all this time so I know it works. In fact I have not had any issues with Vista 64 or Sins in the year that I have had it.

My sins is in drive D: but yes I cleared both. Though I didn't erase the AppData folder until after the last install attempt. I can erase them and try it agian, it is just that it takes a long time to download and install it so I was hoping for something better then try again.

Thanks for the reply though.

Reply #3 February 24, 2009 12:24 AM from

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my other guess is that there's suddenly an issue with the VC++ redist, but i sorta doubt it. could try reinstalling it though if you like

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BA9257CA-337F-4B40-8C14-157CFDFFEE4E&displaylang=en

Reply #4 February 26, 2009 5:05 AM from

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do you have vanilla sins up to date?

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