[Vista user] My friend and I are having problems with RO2...

So, I've downloaded the whole thing and the client and all that. When we go to the updater, it says everything is there. We hit the start game and it says that files are missing and the like. So I looked in the common problems thread and found that my RagII file was missing, so I put it in. Now its saying that my "Core.dll" file is missing. Now, I don't know what I did wrong, but it seems like I'm missing a lot of files. Did I install it wrong or something? Help would be greatly appreciated.

sounds like your antivirus removed some parts

Indeed. Please refer to this thread. =) You might find the answers there.

https://aegisn.forumotion.com/client-support-f9/vista-can-t-get-past-the-launcher-screen-t341.htm#2687

antivirus wont touch anything bug ragii.exe...

my mcaffe deleted ragii.exe once but when i looked at closer, it said it deleted 2 dll's too

Well, apparently I'm missing entire folders worth of stuff, and I used the downloads that you had on the download page. In the directions for the things that Vista users have to do (the changing of file names and all that) the folder that's for the HackShield stuff is totally missing, and I've dug through the other folders to try and find it. So either the way I unpacked the rar files was totally wrong or something, because for the record, I don't really have an antivirus program to eat things...
I'll delete the unpacked stuff and try again, but if I could get a list of things that I should have and where they go that might be extremely helpful, you know?

i am going to make a fullinstaller, so when it still fails next sunday you can download the new one ^^.

still, i hope you can resolve it this way ^^

It's all okay now! My friend who managed to figure it out helped me replace files and make sure it all worked. So I'm all set with playing!

Thanks for helping!

have fun playing