SM5 - Where To Report Bugs, and Windows Installation Issues

Where exactly should any newly discovered bugs in SM5 be reported?



I'm sure the answer to this question is out there somewhere, but as I was unfamiliar with stepmania.com even before the new changes, I'm currently a little lost. I figure a few other people might be equally curious.

Would forum posts be the preferred means of communication for reporting bugs?

Are there any aspects of SM5 which are known to be less stable than others?

The primary bugtracker lives here but requires registration because I was wary of spambots. (Apologies for that.)

It's been a long while since I've looked at mainline StepMania, so I wouldn't be able to answer your question regarding stability.

Perfect. Thanks for the quick response!

Would questions or "bug" reports regarding the different installers for SM5 belong in the bugtracker? Here's an example that just came up for me.

I'm running Windows 7. SM5 won't open for me after a clean install. Error message: "The program can't start because d3dx9_43.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." What's interesting is that I already have DirectX 11 installed on my machine. In any case, it would be great if all of the required files were included in the installer, if possible.

I'm not sure if DirectX 11 actually includes the DirectX 9 DLLs and such anymore...

As counter intuitive as it is, you need to update DirectX.

This should actually (hopefully?) be solved in a future release and the installer seriously should pack in the DX/VS redistributables so this doesn't happen to people.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 This should fix the DX thing.

DX thing fixed. Thank you!

I'm apparently lacking an additional file:
MSVCP110.dll

Pretty sure I could tackle this one with some web searching, but I figure the answers might as well all go in one place.

This should fix that up: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679

If that one doesn't, it's this one: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

I forget which version the release was built with, but there actually has been work done to make this issue go away (the installer should be fixed, probably, though).

Wonderful. Thanks again!

That first link did the trick. I initially tried the first link but downloaded the x64 version (I was like hey I have a new-ish OS and okay hardware, that must be what I want!) with no luck, tried the second link but no dice, then went back to the first and grabbed the x86 one.

All set. :)