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[Meierhans]

Finally I found the time to dive into vvvv again.

As I am now running a fresh installed W10 x64 I also made the switch vvvv 50beta35 64bit, and learned how to use VPM. So many great changes!
Hope to see more constributions that can be installed in such a painless way.

When wanted to try the new PerfMeter2 I ran into issues with Text (DX11.Layer Advanced). The DLL seems to be in place, this is what I get from TTY:

00:00:09 : adding disabled path D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to available plugins. already watched by: D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins
00:00:09 : adding disabled path D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to available plugins. already watched by: D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins
00:00:09 : adding disabled path D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to available plugins. already watched by: D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.Hosting.FreeFrameFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.Hosting.VSTFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.Hosting.Factories.EditorFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.Hosting.Factories.EffectsFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.Hosting.Factories.PatchFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.DX11.Factories.DX11CompImageEffectFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.DX11.Factories.DX11CompEffectFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.DX11.Factories.DX11GeomEffectFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.DX11.Factories.DX11EffectFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.DX11.Factories.DX11ImageEffectFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.DX11.Factories.DX11StreamOutEffectFactory
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to DX11
00:00:09 : adding D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\ to VVVV.VL.Factories.NodeFactory
00:00:10 ERR : Exception during extracting node infos from file D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll: Der Typ “VVVV.DX11.IDX11LayerProvider” in der Assembly “VVVV.DX11.Core, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null” konnte nicht geladen werden.
00:00:10 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.
00:00:10 * : Node Text (DX11.Layer Advanced) (D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll) is missing.
00:00:10 * : couldn’t connect pins of nodes TextLayout (DirectWrite) and Text (DX11.Layer Advanced).
00:00:10 * : couldn’t connect pins of nodes Text (DX11.Layer Advanced) and PixelBillBoard (DX11.Layer).
00:00:10 * : couldn’t connect pins of nodes HSL (Color Join) and Text (DX11.Layer Advanced).
00:00:10 * : couldn’t connect pins of nodes Transform (Transform 2d) and Text (DX11.Layer Advanced).
00:00:10 ERR : Corrupt link-message in Patch D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\Text (DX11.Layer Advanced) help.v4p. srcViewPin or dstViewPin is nil!
00:00:10 ERR : Corrupt link-message in Patch D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\Text (DX11.Layer Advanced) help.v4p. srcViewPin or dstViewPin is nil!
00:00:10 ERR : Corrupt link-message in Patch D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\Text (DX11.Layer Advanced) help.v4p. srcViewPin or dstViewPin is nil!
00:00:10 ERR : Corrupt link-message in Patch D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\Text (DX11.Layer Advanced) help.v4p. srcViewPin or dstViewPin is nil!
00:00:10 ERR : Exception during extracting node infos from file D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll: Der Typ “VVVV.DX11.IDX11LayerProvider” in der Assembly “VVVV.DX11.Core, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null” konnte nicht geladen werden.
00:00:10 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.
00:00:10 ERR : Exception during extracting node infos from file D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll: Der Typ “VVVV.DX11.IDX11LayerProvider” in der Assembly “VVVV.DX11.Core, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null” konnte nicht geladen werden.
00:00:10 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.
00:00:10 ERR : Exception during extracting node infos from file D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll: Der Typ “VVVV.DX11.IDX11LayerProvider” in der Assembly “VVVV.DX11.Core, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null” konnte nicht geladen werden.
00:00:10 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.
00:00:10 ERR : Exception during extracting node infos from file D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll: Der Typ “VVVV.DX11.IDX11LayerProvider” in der Assembly “VVVV.DX11.Core, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null” konnte nicht geladen werden.
00:00:10 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.
00:00:10 ERR : Exception during extracting node infos from file D:\vvvv_50beta35_x64\packs\dx11\nodes\plugins\VVVV.DX11.Nodes.Text.dll: Der Typ “VVVV.DX11.IDX11LayerProvider” in der Assembly “VVVV.DX11.Core, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null” konnte nicht geladen werden.
00:00:10 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.

“VVVV.DX11.IDX11LayerProvider” kinda sounds like an important thing I should not miss…

[readme]

maybe related to this one?

Text DX11 is red on some systems - 0.71 release

ello, i have some pc’s with a freshly installed vvvv and dx11 pack 0.71 where the text node just doesn’t work and i can’t find the reason. looks like some dependency is missing but i wonder which since vvvv is not giving any hint. anyone with an idea ? vvvv.exe-exception-2016-09-12.log (29.8 kB)

should be covered by crac…errr setup.exe though.

[Meierhans]

Thank you for the link @readme!

I searched for Text (DX11.Layer Advanced), but this post did not show up.

So, for anybody running into the same problem:
You need to install this:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

Just an idea: All these C++ runtimes are static and do not change. Its quite annoying to install them one by one, especially because they are all named vcredist.exe after download, so its easy to get confused.

Maybe we could create a zip with all of them inside folders, and a batch that installs them silently?
Or maybe even better - as the batch might not show errors - do this via VPM? Or even via Setup.exe?

http://asawicki.info/news_1597_installing_visual_c_redistributable_package_from_command_line.html

edit: This might help as well:

http://downloads.techradar.com/downloads/all-in-one-runtimes-64-bit
Edit: Stay away from this one, it breaks things in a very bad way…