#36 Creation of FireFX crashes on some machines

[Anonymous]

When i try to create a either sun the game crashes and
when i make an aserroid crash on tot he planet.

[Dave Kerr]

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Please try updating your graphics card drivers, and report
back to see if this still occurs.

Likely an incompatibility with GLFireFX and your graphics
drivers.

[Dave Kerr]

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Both suns and explosions use GLFireFX. Explosions arise
when an asteroid impacts the planet.

[Dave Kerr]

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Possibly an issue with ATI graphics cards. Update your
drivers.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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my drivers are up to date. It doesnt crash when moon collide
and hit the planet causing explosions.

[Dave Kerr]

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Seems to be a GLScene issue. Other GLScene developers are
reporting the same problem.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Is there anything i can do or is it something you have to do.

[Dave Kerr]

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We'll have to wait until there is a fix in GLScene. It works
fine on my computer and everyone else... If I cant reproduce
the bug then I cant fix it.

Until then the only thing you can do is try updating any
relevant drivers (gfx card, directx, etc)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Once when i was running the program, I was switching
windows and multi-tasking. I noticed the arrow keys were not
moving the planet, so i decided to make asteroids hit the
planet. It didnt crash, so tried to make a sun and it crashed.
I've been trying to recreate this.

[Zach Parker]

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i figured out how to create suns and not crash. if i turn
satellites make a sun and turn them back on it works 90% of
the time.

[Dave Kerr]

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This is very strange because the suns were working before
and nothing changed with the Sun code, except for adding
shadow support.

To anyone having this problem, please try: Try using version
0.9.1 and see if the suns crash your system.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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When i try try to run any 0.9.1 series, i get this error message
"context deactivation failed". i can see a sun though

[Dave Kerr]

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What kind of graphics card do you have?

What version of DirectX and Windows are you running?

If you haven't done so, please update your graphics drivers.

[Zach Parker]

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S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR

DirectX 9.0b

Windows 2000 Professional with service pack 4

I have updated my drivers

[Dave Kerr]

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Added a button to version 0.9.7 to disable the creation of
FireFX.

Should fix this problem, but the user must press the button
before any fires are added.