speedrun noob here. for some reason my livesplit tells me i have to update it to the new version for that new transitions rule and no matter how many times I update it doesn't work. anyone have any solutions to this? I thought I had the newest version installed but after I submitted my first run I was told that it broke that rule

Since it doesn't seem to update for you from the software itself, rather than doing that, download the latest version instead.

The assets page update only put the source code for this recent update. 2.1 was the last update to have a new .dll

Not sure what to do to install it manually

Make sure that in the load remover tab, the "Remove Transitions" box is checked.

the tab isn't giving me the option to. it's still at the previous version

Can you post a picture of the load remover tab of your livesplit?

okay. so i just pretty much deleted everything and started from scratch and now it works lol so i'm all good! thanks for your help, i now have the remove transitions box checked