Hey, ive recently bought the game.
Downloaded it fine, installation seemed to be fine aswell.
But when i try launch it, nothing happens at all.
Ive tried as administrator, or launching it directly after installation with the "Launch running with rifles now" option.
But norhing happens, tried reinstalling it. And updated direct x and my graphic card driver etc.
I actually have an ATI Radeon.

When i try run the config, it shows all the options completely empty.
So it doesnt say anything next to video mode, full screen, atnialias etc.

Hope someone can help me,
Chalker

First of all - thanks for pre-purchasing!

The options being empty in the config usually points to problems with DirectX 9.0c version or graphics card drivers. Did you try this yet http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=35?

Which Windows do you have? On Vista and Windows 7 you can access the RWR log files at "C:\ProgramData\Running with rifles", there's rwr_config.log; could you paste the file on the forum? On Windows XP, the log files are in something like "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Running with rifles" or "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Running with rifles".

EDIT: misread your post about updating DirectX.. I'm starting to skip lines, bad habit. Ok, the next thing to look at is still rwr_config.log file.

I just searched through my e-mails, and there was one occasion where a problem like this was solved by creating a config.xml file in the aforementioned folder manually. I've copied an example at http://www.modulaatio.com/runningwithrifles/config.xml with the most basic settings, I'd be curious what happens if you copy that file to the "ProgramData\Running with rifles" folder or the one for Windows XP, and launch the game.

Thanks for the reply.
Im running windows 7 64x, here is my rwr_config.log:
13:11:40: Creating resource group General
13:11:40: Creating resource group Internal
13:11:40: Creating resource group Autodetect
13:11:40: SceneManagerFactory for type 'DefaultSceneManager' registered.
13:11:40: Registering ResourceManager for type Material
13:11:40: Registering ResourceManager for type Mesh
13:11:40: Registering ResourceManager for type Skeleton
13:11:40: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ParticleSystem' registered.
13:11:40: OverlayElementFactory for type Panel registered.
13:11:40: OverlayElementFactory for type BorderPanel registered.
13:11:40: OverlayElementFactory for type TextArea registered.
13:11:40: Registering ResourceManager for type Font
13:11:40: ArchiveFactory for archive type FileSystem registered.
13:11:40: ArchiveFactory for archive type Zip registered.
13:11:40: DDS codec registering
13:11:40: FreeImage version: 3.13.1
13:11:40: This program uses FreeImage, a free, open source image library supporting all common bitmap formats. See http://freeimage.sourceforge.net for details
13:11:40: Supported formats: bmp,ico,jpg,jif,jpeg,jpe,jng,koa,iff,lbm,mng,pbm,pbm,pcd,pcx,pgm,pgm,png,ppm,ppm,ras,tga,targa,tif,tiff,wap,wbmp,wbm,psd,cut,xbm,xpm,gif,hdr,g3,sgi,exr,j2k,j2c,jp2,pfm,pct,pict,pic,bay,bmq,cr2,crw,cs1,dc2,dcr,dng,erf,fff,hdr,k25,kdc,mdc,mos,mrw,nef,orf,pef,pxn,raf,raw,rdc,sr2,srf,arw,3fr,cine,ia,kc2,mef,nrw,qtk,rw2,sti,drf,dsc,ptx,cap,iiq,rwz
13:11:40: Registering ResourceManager for type HighLevelGpuProgram
13:11:40: Registering ResourceManager for type Compositor
13:11:40: MovableObjectFactory for type 'Entity' registered.
13:11:40: MovableObjectFactory for type 'Light' registered.
13:11:40: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardSet' registered.
13:11:40: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ManualObject' registered.
13:11:40: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardChain' registered.
13:11:40: MovableObjectFactory for type 'RibbonTrail' registered.
13:11:40: *-*-* OGRE Initialising
13:11:40: *-*-* Version 1.7.2 (Cthugha)
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Launcher started
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Opening dialog
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Init dialog
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: config file load ok
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Paint event
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Loading bitmap
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: DC
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Select
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Stretch
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: destwidth=276
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Delete
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: End paint
13:11:40: .\Launcher.cpp: Paint ended
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: videomode=
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: antialias=
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: fullscreen=-1
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: vsync=-1
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: Creating config.xml
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: Closing dialog
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: Dialog closed
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: Destroy event
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: Exited from dialog
13:12:54: .\Launcher.cpp: Deleting root
13:12:54: *-*-* OGRE Shutdown
13:12:54: Unregistering ResourceManager for type Compositor
13:12:54: Unregistering ResourceManager for type Font
13:12:54: Unregistering ResourceManager for type Skeleton
13:12:54: Unregistering ResourceManager for type Mesh
13:12:54: Unregistering ResourceManager for type HighLevelGpuProgram
13:12:54: Unregistering ResourceManager for type Material

And dont worry about the skipping lines.
With all the work you have to do i cant even understand how you find the time to do everything.
All i can say is keep up the great work!

Victory!

The problem was actually solved by opening the config.xml file with notepad++ and changing it to:
<options>
<videomode>1024 x 768 @ 32-bit colour</videomode>
<fullscreen value="0"/>
<vsync value="0"/>
<antialias>0</antialias>
<audiodevice value="0"/>
</options>

I can now play the game. Thanks for the help!
Edit: You might want to add a section to the forum with known issues and ways to fix them.
If you find ANY free time that is
Thanks for the help and keep up the great work!

Glad that it works now, although there's still something wrong in the config that it does this on some PCs. For some reason the rendersystem doesn't get properly initialized in the config for getting the graphics hardware capabilities, certain important lines on the log don't show up, and so all options end up empty. The funny part is that the rendersystem manages to initialize just fine in the actual game on the same PC.

Good idea about collecting the issues and workarounds to a single place, maybe I'll add a sticky post on the Suggestion forum at some point with the problem-fix -pairs. There's hope most of them will eventually become unneeded as the game becomes more robust.