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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Gondric on July 09, 2006, 06:29:52 am

Title: startup loading screen
Post by: Gondric on July 09, 2006, 06:29:52 am

when i start the game i get to the laoding screen the one with the dwarf the elf the menki and the kran on it and it crashes.
it says that the program has asked runtime to terminate the program in an unusual way.

plz help me

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Karyuu on July 09, 2006, 06:31:57 am

Have you run the updater (you shouldn't)? Can you post your system specs just in case?

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Gondric on July 09, 2006, 06:35:36 am

i did run the updater when it said new updates available and my comp has been able to play planeshift fine unti li ran it. then wierd stuff started to happen. should i just reinstall.

my specs well i think this is what u mean
windows xp
graphics card - no idea but its good enuf
512mb ram (atleast)

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Karyuu on July 09, 2006, 06:37:52 am

If you ran the updater, you should definitely do a clean install again. We even have an Important stickied thread about this titled **** DON'T RUN THE UDPATER! ****

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Gondric on July 09, 2006, 06:44:04 am

srry ran it ages ago so i unistall the planeshift files then shoudl i fully delete them cos i tried reinstalling it and the thing keeps skipping files and stuff

*edit*

okay i figured it out it said that i was still using the game when i had uninstaled it and tried to delete the files. rebooted my computer and i am reinstalling right now with no problems thanks karyuu. will they say when we can use updater?

Please avoid posting two or more successive posts before others have replied. Just edit your last post to add new information. Thanks! --Karyuu

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Nairan on July 09, 2006, 08:32:25 am

Karyuu, its maybe unnintentional but theres somethink like theres a new update availibale plz run updater on the char selection screen.
yesterday there was a big confucing going on (was playing and on other comp in irc ps channel ppls discusing either they should do it or not.
i know plps should read froum from time to time to check whats going.
maybe the devs need to becareful with that moving text.

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: DaveG on July 09, 2006, 08:35:03 am

Talad tried to get the update servers up and running, but as of yet I can't get the thing to work right.  Just ignore the message for now.

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Karyuu on July 09, 2006, 08:52:41 am

When the updater will be fully available, you will see news on the main page.

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: biruno on July 10, 2006, 07:45:16 am

i am having the same problems as gondric i have reinstalled the game twice now and it always says it cant write a file and i have to abort the installation plz plz help

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Karyuu on July 10, 2006, 07:02:31 pm

Maybe a corrupt download? Can you try redownloading the package again, if you haven't tried this already?

Title: Re: startup loading screen
Post by: Learch on July 13, 2006, 12:23:43 am

I had this problem as well.

• At the first splash screen, there are those 5 musical notes (duh duh duh duh DUH), and after a fresh reboot, first launch of psclient.exe, it would get up to "duh duh duh duh ", but never get to the last note "DUH".
• Subsequent launches of  psclient.exe were worse (didn't get to the first "duh").  --- boy, trying to describe music with text sounds dumb :)
• Disabling sound (as well as the other load/render options in PSetup) didn't make a difference.
• I tried with and without the .zip patch, no difference.
• I tried re-installing (without un-installing); no difference.

What finally worked for me was to uninstall Planeshift (Using the option in the PlaneShift Start Menu), then installing, then applying the zip patch.

Good luck!