help GREEN HORN WITH NEW OOLITE CRASHES-fixed

christina · Post by **christina** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:56 am

ERMM help.
just discovered oolite.. BUSTing to play.

down loaded the latest version ..AND ALL the addons

( have not installed them...yet)
ALSO downloaded early version 1.63??.
Keen to go !... Start screen flashing.. slowly with NON textured elite ship spinning/rotating (jumpy).
P = pause...nothing
F2= for menu nothing.
drag and resize ..nothing
BUGGER nothing...

HELP PLEASE

Pentium 4. = 3.8 512 Gaphic card. clean HD with 80 gig spare ram..

deep sadness... have to play that russian elite game now...
DAm! the NAV button is missing .. f2!! Dam not working...

oh freelancer back i come......again

HELP

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:46 am

Which version are you playing? It is **HIGHLY** suggested you use 1.73.4.

As for the general issue of no textures - Update your video drivers. Is it an Nvidia- or an ATI-based card?

Either way, update the driver.

christina · Post by **christina** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:19 am

hello i just had a sneak read..( i at work ...bored and sciving off ha ha ).

if i stop it's cos boss comes in and i jsut hit postt..

well i had a quick look at some of the posts.. and found

Oolite doesn't start.

is the SAME as mine BUt i not on the net at home nor have fire wall on the computer.

its a ATI card and the latest game version 1.73.4.. i can't find 1.73.3 to down load.
if you have it send to dizzy duck337@hotmail.. it might work??.

hopfully .. cos i 'm not tecchie brained... " i just " have you tried to turn it off and then back on again"

and thats the limit for this bear of little brain.

ps thanks for the reply.
best wishes
christina..

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:26 am

Try playing in a window instead of full screen, sometimes that works,
if not try it the other way.

Oh, and Welcome to The Friendliest Board this side of Reidiquat tm

Which may be more amusing once you actually get to play the game.

Post by **Kaks** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:54 am

1.73.4 is just like 1.73.3, but better! One thing you can try is go to the oolite link/shortcut (either on the desktop or inside the 'start' menu, right click it, then click properties on the popup menu that appears.
That should give you a small window called 'Oolite properties'.
Click the Shortcut tab, you should see a line that says

Target: C:\Oolite\oolite.app\oolite.exe

change that so it reads

Target: C:\Oolite\oolite.app\oolite.exe -nosplash

click OK, now double click the same shortcut.

If everything went well, you should see a black oolite window for a few seconds, then Oolite itself should start, hopefully with textured & smoothly animated ship. If you still have problems, that means you need to find your video card's exact model, and install its latest drivers...

Assuming everything went well, to begin playing click on Oolite's window, then press n, then space.

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:10 am

Kaks wrote:
If everything went well, you should see a black oolite window for a few seconds, then Oolite itself should start, hopefully with textured & smoothly animated ship. If you still have problems, that means you need to find your video card's exact model, and install its latest drivers...

Which means that you have to look for the graphic cards chip manufacturer, which most likely is ATI or nVidia. The companies which sell the cards often come branded like Asus, MSI, ... but these companies usually do not link to the latest drivers from the chips manufacturer. Thus it's really necessary to go to ATI or nVidia and get them there.

If newer drivers and nosplash option do not help, please locate the log file and post it here.

Screet

Rebecca · Post by **Rebecca** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:52 pm

hey.... new lady player (i assume!!!)) join the small but growing clan!!!

cant help with the techno mumbo jumbo but welcome to the friendliest board this side of somewhere.... (someone help me out!!)

B

drew · Post by **drew** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:57 pm

christina wrote:
slowly with NON textured elite ship spinning/rotating (jumpy).

Sounds like you have the exact same problem I did with Oolite - does it look like this?

- Kaks' advice (quoted below) should hopefully work! If not, you need to update graphics drivers for your video card.

I'll add my welcome by the way! Hopefully you'll be up and running shortly!

Rebecca wrote:
someone help me out!!

Riedquat is the 'somewhere' you're looking for!

Cheers,

Drew.

Kaks wrote:
1.73.4 is just like 1.73.3, but better! One thing you can try is go to the oolite link/shortcut (either on the desktop or inside the 'start' menu, right click it, then click properties on the popup menu that appears.
That should give you a small window called 'Oolite properties'.
Click the Shortcut tab, you should see a line that says

Target: C:\Oolite\oolite.app\oolite.exe

change that so it reads

Target: C:\Oolite\oolite.app\oolite.exe -nosplash

click OK, now double click the same shortcut.

If everything went well, you should see a black oolite window for a few seconds, then Oolite itself should start, hopefully with textured & smoothly animated ship. If you still have problems, that means you need to find your video card's exact model, and install its latest drivers...

Assuming everything went well, to begin playing click on Oolite's window, then press n, then space.

christina · Post by **christina** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:28 pm

OK firstly THank you EVERY one for the replies..

AND
YEs I'M a GP ( girl player an a TOG( the old gamers).
Sadly i do remeber playing elite on a acorn and ( REALly SAD) i still have the boxed version for amiga1200 Elite two frontier.( the box is perfect and still has the docket from the shop i go it from in england-future zone peterborough.dated01 11 93..(VERY SAD...)
SADDER...

i have that same image i can see on this page..the ship spins and flashes.
i have updated the drivers
for the ATI HD 3650 512 mb 128bit????????.
this resulted in the same thing..BUt .. spinning and flashing is faster

..ermmm the log is where..please?

Also sciving off work to day ..such a drag and the kids are at school so i can play some games and kill some bad guys.. just got a cheap( game traders) hells highway... so i'll be a line for a while

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:37 pm

Hi Christina

In C:\Oolite\oolite.app\Logs you will find Latest.log
Open Latest.log in Wordpad or some text editor. Do not use Notepad.
Copy and paste in your next post.

Did you get the 9.10 driver from AMD? That’s the last one. I have the 3650 also.

Hope this helps.

christina · Post by **christina** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:55 am

eerrmmm no not the 9.10 driver from AMD

got the address cos it's abit of a bugger finding drivers for this card..

keep get conned at those "buy robotdriver"..

the version is 9 but not 9.10

could be the prob,

do you play the russian version opengl elite

i have problem ,No nav button ..

christina · Post by **christina** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:57 am

ok i got it.. down loading as we speak .. got to go left my spore city under attACK

christina · Post by **christina** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:27 am

ERRMMMM NOPE.. I DOWNLOADED TRIED TO INSTALL
BUT GOT
"SET UP DIDNOT FIND A DRIVER COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR CURRENT HARDWARE OR OPERATING SYSTEM SET UP WILL NOW EXIT"

MEANS WOT?

I DOWN LOADED THE RIGHT DRIVERS.. I THINK

christina · Post by **christina** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:46 am

Ok back again. i found ati hotfix for latest drivers , all installed and runs oblivion fallout 3 ..a lot better.??

but not oolite

same result ,even when resized

pasted the log below
i hope someone understands it
christina.grounded, sold ship now working in warehouse packing every one elses ships..

[log.header]: Opening log for Oolite version 1.73.4 (x86-32 test release) under Windows at 2009-11-06 14:08:33 +1030.
2 processors detected.
Oolite Options: [Procedural Planets] [Docking Clearance] [Wormhole Scanner] [Target Incoming Missiles]

Note that the contents of the log file can be adjusted by editing logcontrol.plist.

[joystickHandler.init]: Number of joysticks detected: 0
[display.mode.list.native]: Windows native resolution detected: 1280 x 1024
[rendering.opengl.version]: OpenGL renderer version: 1.1.0 ("1.1.0")
Vendor: Microsoft Corporation
Renderer: GDI Generic
[rendering.opengl.extensions]: OpenGL extensions (3):
GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture
[rendering.opengl.shader.support]: Shaders will not be used (OpenGL extension GL_ARB_shading_language_100 is not available).
[dataCache.notFound]: No data cache found, starting from scratch.
[searchPaths.dumpAll]: ---> OXP search paths:
(Resources, ../AddOns)
[shipData.load.begin]: Loading ship data...
[script.load.world.listAll]: Loaded 5 world scripts: "oolite-cloaking-device" 1.73.4, "oolite-constrictor-hunt" 1.73.4, "oolite-nova" 1.73.4, "oolite-thargoid-plans" 1.73.4, "oolite-trumbles" 1.73.4
[dataCache.willWrite]: About to write data cache.
[dataCache.write.success]: Wrote data cache.
[gnustep]: 2009-11-06 14:09:04.937 oolite[4080] Defaults path 'C:\Oolite/oolite.app/GNUstep/Defaults' did not exist - created it

[gameController.exitApp]: .GNUstepDefaults synchronized.

Closing log at 2009-11-06 14:09:04 +1030.

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:11 am

Did you try the modified shortcut as per Kaks instructions?

Your log is showing that Oolite isn't able to use your graphics card and is defaulting to 'software rendering' which is why you're getting the blank ship.

the -nosplash setting should fix this... (this is exactly the problem I had with my graphics setup)

Cheers,

Drew.