Crashing at "Loading Universe" - Non English HW2 Gamers - Fixed in 1.1

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For those of you that are from countries who's operating system has a regional setting that uses commas instead of periods for the decimal point, you may crash out of HW2 as the game tries to load a Single Player, Skirmish or Multiplayer mission.

This is because of a parsing error that occurs when HW2 reads the Driverconfig (and other) lua file. Apparently, or so I'm told, a low level MS function reads through the lua files when they're loaded, and your computer will then see numbers with a comma instead of a period for a decimal place.

The error in your hw2.log file will look something like this.

LUA 'bin:driverConfig.lua' -- parameter: malformed number;
last token read: `1.3' at line 86 in string "" 
error executing GetAssumedLatestDll() in driverConfig.lua 
error executing GetAssumedLatestDllVersion() in driverConfig.lua 
error executing AdjustForBadDrivers() in driverConfig.lua

To work around this:

Go to Start>Settings>Control Panel.

Open the Regional Settings (Regional and Language Options) applet.

Depending on your operating system, locate the area to modify your decimal symbol, and change it from a , (comma) to a . (period).

This is Fixed in Version 1.1 of HW2.