# Experimental dated 7/25 9:33Pm won't start up

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [July 26, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416 "2013-07-26T05:31:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whitelight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whitelight](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Whitelight)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/1 "2013-07-26T05:31:35Z")

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So yeah, grabbed the latest experimental today, as I do every day, and it crashes on startup.

“This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way… Please contact the application’s support team for more information”

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**Author:** ![TheTinCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@TheTinCat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheTinCat)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 5:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/2 "2013-07-26T05:42:58Z")

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Same here. I don’t get any error, simply closes to desktop.

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**Author:** ![Savidiy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Savidiy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Savidiy)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/3 "2013-07-26T05:57:57Z")

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I download Windows Curses and SDL version. They crashes at startup.

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**Author:** ![1942rob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/1942rob/32/979_2.png) [@1942rob](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/1942rob)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 10:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/4 "2013-07-26T10:46:24Z")

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Ill have a look into it.

In the meantime use the latest successfull (runnable) builds:  
[Windows - Curses](http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Win32/174/)  
[Windows - SDL](http://ci.narc.ro/job/Cataclysm-Win32-SDL/162/)

Aaand…  
[GitHub issue](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/2206)

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**Author:** ![ejseto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@ejseto](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ejseto)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/5 "2013-07-26T11:29:42Z")

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Did you clear your save folder? Sometimes an update will incompatible with old worlds, and since worlds are loaded before you even get to the main menu, you won’t be able to delete it from there.

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**Author:** ![Morrigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Morrigi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Morrigi)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/6 "2013-07-26T12:23:09Z")

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Does not work from clean install. It is not a save problem.

EDIT: And the latest functional new version still doesn’t have the smoke fix, which is a major problem IMO.

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**Author:** ![Mate](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mate/32/73_2.png) [@Mate](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mate)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/7 "2013-07-26T12:24:33Z")

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Doesn’t work for me either, thanks for the link.

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**Author:** ![1942rob](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/1942rob/32/979_2.png) [@1942rob](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/1942rob)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/8 "2013-07-26T14:14:48Z")

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A fix has been made, but it’ll take a day or so some minutes for it to be applied.

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**Author:** ![GalenEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f04885/32.png) [@GalenEvil](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GalenEvil)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/experimental-dated-7-25-9-33pm-wont-start-up/2416/9 "2013-07-26T15:09:51Z")

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PR fix merged into main branch – seems the color array was not resized when the additional colors were merged in. Sometimes the buffer overflow doesn’t cause a crash, and that may be why the problem was not caught earlier. Thanks for reporting the issue!