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Title: Installed but won't run Post by: aurelius on May 01, 2009, 09:37:43 pm Hello, all!
I'm new to this game, but been messing with computers since the days of DOS. I've installed v.0.6.2 and when I run it, it opens a window, but goes no further. Just a black box. What am I doing wrong? System is a 1.2GHz Athlon, with ATI Radeon 9200, running W98. Thanks! Title: Re: Installed but won't run Post by: Novus on May 01, 2009, 10:00:14 pm I've installed v.0.6.2 and when I run it, it opens a window, but goes no further. Just a black box. What am I doing wrong? Is this "black box" the main UQM window or a terminal ("DOS") window? Is it entirely black? Did you install UQM by downloading the official installer and running that? Did the installer give any warning or error messages? Is a file called stderr.txt generated in your UQM directory? If so, can you post its contents?System is a 1.2GHz Athlon, with ATI Radeon 9200, running W98. In the meantime, I'll check whether UQM 0.6.2 actually works under Windows 98. Edit: Yep, it works. The Microsoft-supplied NVIDIA TNT2 drivers are totally useless for OpenGL, but everything else seems to be OK. Title: Re: Installed but won't run Post by: aurelius on May 01, 2009, 10:53:45 pm Looks like a regular old window to me. It's totally black except for the header bar and a thin gray border. No blinking cursor or anything. My mouse pointer turns to a white outline.
Here's the logfile: argv[0] = [C:\Program Files\The Ur-Quan Masters\uqm.exe] argv[1] = [--logfile] argv[2] = [logfile.txt] The Ur-Quan Masters v0.6.2 (compiled Jan 15 2007 13:56:34) This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the included 'COPYING' file. Netplay protocol version 0.3. Requiring remote UQM version 0.5.4. Initializing base SDL functionality. Using SDL version 1.2.12 (compiled with 1.2.8) Warning: %APPDATA% is not set. Falling back to "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data" Warning: %USERPROFILE% is not set. Falling back to ".\userdata" for %APPDATA% Using config dir 'C:/Program Files/The Ur-Quan Masters/userdata/uqm/' Using 'C:/Program Files/The Ur-Quan Masters/content' as base content dir. 0 available addon packs. Saved games are kept in C:/Program Files/The Ur-Quan Masters/userdata/uqm/save/. Initializing Pure-SDL graphics. SDL driver used: windib SDL initialized. Initializing Screen. Set the resolution to: 640x480x32 Screen scalers are using SSE/MMX-Ext/MMX code 1 joysticks were found. The names of the joysticks are: CH Flightstick VControl opened joystick: CH Flightstick 3 axes, 2 buttons, 0 hats. Title: Re: Installed but won't run Post by: aurelius on May 02, 2009, 12:15:53 am Well, I did some poking around and found that someone with a similar situation had success by yanking out the joystick. Voila! It works!
Title: Re: Installed but won't run Post by: Novus on May 02, 2009, 02:15:55 am This sounds like another instance of bug #202 (http://bugs.uqm.stack.nl/show_bug.cgi?id=202); in both cases having a CH FlightStick plugged in when running UQM on Windows 98 causes a lock-up in the joystick initialisation. Either UQM's joystick code has some strange problem with 3-axis joysticks or there's a library problem (SDL or DirectX). SDL bug #259 (http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259) could be related.
In any case, thanks for bringing this issue to our attention. |