Oolite Bulletins

Hi, this is my first post here. I just found out about Oolite a few hours ago, and i HAD to get hold of it and have ago.

I've installed it using the windows binary installer (1.62).

What happens is as follows:

1. I start it up, and get the normal intro screen
2. I press 'N', then space, as prompted
3. I press 1 to launch.
4. I get the image of flying through a tube, but then Oolite crashes. So I never actually get to see outside the space station.

I've tried saving a commander, and reloading it on startup. I've had a look at the suggestion for replacing the C:\Program Files\Oolite\oolite.app\Contents\Resources\AIs fiels, but the offered files were the same as the files that I already had.

I've tried running in both fullscreen and window mode.

I've also tried changing various openGL settings on my graphics card.

My system: Windows XP pro sp2. AMD Athlon XP 1800+, graphics GeCube Radeon 7000.

If anyone can help me get this going it would be great - my appetite has been well and truly whetted!

Thanks very much.

Here's stderr:

2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] initialising SDL
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] init: numSticks=0
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] CREATING MODE LIST
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Unknown architecture, defaulting to 1024x768
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 2048 x 1536
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1920 x 1440
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1856 x 1392
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1800 x 1440
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1792 x 1344
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1600 x 1200
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1280 x 1024
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1152 x 864
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 1024 x 768
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 800 x 600
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 640 x 480
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 512 x 384
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 400 x 300
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Added res 320 x 240
2006-03-11 18:46:24.000 oolite.exe[3968] Found mode {Height = 600; RefreshRate = 0; Width = 800; }
2006-03-11 18:46:26.000 oolite.exe[3968] drawRect calling initialiseGLWithSize
2006-03-11 18:46:26.000 oolite.exe[3968] Creating a new surface of 800 x 600
2006-03-11 18:46:26.000 oolite.exe[3968] no universe, clearning surface
2006-03-11 18:46:26.000 oolite.exe[3968] ---> searching paths:
(oolite.app/Contents/Resources, AddOns)
2006-03-11 18:46:26.000 oolite.exe[3968] Vertex Array Range optimisation - not supported
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] Populating a system with economy 5, and government 3
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 5 trading vessels
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 0 sun skimming vessels
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 8 pirate vessels
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 0 sun skim pirates
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 2 law/bounty-hunter vessels
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 0 sun skim law/bounty hunter vessels
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 0 Thargoid warships
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... adding 2 asteroid clusters
2006-03-11 18:46:27.000 oolite.exe[3968] ... for a total of 17 ships
2006-03-11 18:46:28.000 oolite.exe[3968] OPENGL_DEBUG GL_ERROR (1280) 'invalid enumerant' in: Universe before doing anything

I don't have any particular suggestions, except to try the latest build, available at http://nic.dnsalias.com/oolite-1.63gust ... -win32.exe .

Hope this helps.

Bob

rbird wrote:

I don't have any particular suggestions, except to try the latest build, available at http://nic.dnsalias.com/oolite-1.63gust ... -win32.exe .

Hope this helps.

Bob

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Same thing happens again

I start oolite, press 'n', press space, press '1' and go through a tunnel, then it crashes.

I tried it without my video card driver installed, and it worked, but was very slow. I came out of the tunnel and there was a planet right in front of me. That's not practical, though, because then I can only use very slow refresh rates for my monitor, and all the other things the video driver takes care of.

ho hum.

Any more ideas?

seems to be a problem with opengl

Try this:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/ent/gld_home.php
(the download for it is at the bottom of this page:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/pro ... nload.html )

That replaces your OpenGL drivers with drivers that wrap around Direct3D ones. It's only a demo, so eventually will time out, but should let you play the game in the mean time.

(It helped my machine display the intro screen correctly)

-Nic