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[Freeorion-programmers] [ freeorion-Bugs-2974261 ] Game crashes on startup
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2010-03-26 00:23:28
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Bugs item #2974261, was opened at 2010-03-21 15:06 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by geoffthemedio You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=544942&aid=2974261&group_id=75752 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Paul Robinson (rfc1394) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Game crashes on startup Initial Comment: I just downloaded the game today. It installs fine, so when the installer suggested running the game, I did. It got to the main full earth "blue marble" screen, I selected single player, and took the defaults as specified. It gets to "creating game and AI" and crashes, with a Micxrosoft ,"do you want to report this error" box. I also received a firewall warning it was attempting to access the internet. I told that warning it was ok. Run the program again and it crashes the same way. My computer is an HP Pavillion A300, 2.6 ghz with 512mb memory and over 30GB free disk space, running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Does the game have a "debug" mode allowing the crash point to be tracedback? I'd be willing to run it to help figure out why it crashes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Geoff Topping (geoffthemedio) Date: 2010-03-25 17:23 Message: generalmjc: The bad font file crash is likely a different problem from the one causing rfc1394's crash. It is discussed in this bug report, which has a link to a freeorion forum thread about it. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2898808&group_id=75752&atid=544942 That thread was about the crash on a linux system, but the discussion should be applicable to you if the equivalent directories are used. Also, If you've previously installed or built freeorion on your system in a different location, you might just need to delete you config.xml file. Its location is discussed on this page: http://freeorion.org/index.php/Config.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Matt (generalmjc) Date: 2010-03-25 17:16 Message: 2010-03-25 17:11:28,531 ERROR Client : main() caught exception(GG::Font::BadFile): Face object created from "g:\Program Files\FreeOrion\default\DejaVuSans.ttf" was invalid thats what I get when it crashes on me kind of wierd how it just crashes cause of a bad font file... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Geoff Topping (geoffthemedio) Date: 2010-03-21 15:09 Message: The firewall warning is normal, although it's not actually connecting to the internet. The most likely cause of the crash is that your computer has insufficient OpenGL support. With default options, v0.3.13 would probably require GL 2.0 to run. If you go into the options screen, galaxy map tab, and disable optimized system rendering, fog of war scanlines, galaxy gas and background starfields, and try starting a new game, it might work. There is no "debug mode", but a log file might indicate part of the problem. Please attach to this bug report, zipped, the .log files in (on Windows XP) C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\FreeOrion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=544942&aid=2974261&group_id=75752 |