PlaneShift

Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: Axl Torvalds on June 17, 2003, 03:25:02 am

Title: "Initializing World" error
Post by: Axl Torvalds on June 17, 2003, 03:25:02 am: Hello again all, my second post here and its bad news again...

Time of test: 16th of June, 2020 Hours
OS: Windows XP
Processor: P4 1600mhz
RAM: 256mb
Video Card: Onboard Card
Video Card Memory: 8mb
PS Client Version: current
OpenGL or Safe Mode: Safe Mode, and OpenGL
Description of the bug:

As you have already seen, I am having a problem whenver the scenario loader reaches the \"Initializing World\" phase of the startup. It seems that my game just sits there, not stuck, but performs no actions at all, stuck on the \"Initializing World\" Phase.

Can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance,
Torvalds
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Post by: Jackyl on June 17, 2003, 03:29:37 am: well the good news is your not the only one tats having that problem. was just bout ready to ask te same ?... so if ne1 has an answer wed luv to hear it :P
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Post by: Nero X on June 17, 2003, 08:26:42 pm: Ya I have the same problem can anyone help???
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Post by: Arinel on June 17, 2003, 11:01:16 pm: Wow! I\'m not the only one! If anyone does have an answer, I hope they post it somewhere soon, because I\'m stuck with the same problem o.o
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Post by: Skain on June 17, 2003, 11:11:42 pm: Quote
This is ok. On some machines, Planeshift believes it needs to recalculate the lighting, which can take up to 2 hours the first time you run. If you let it run to completion, it will load quickly every time after that.

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the game crashing on initialising world is a very very common problem for many people and seems to be mentioned a few times a day in dif forum sections. The devs have put time into trying to fix this and load times and the game crashing at this point will be fixed for the next release.

however for now all i can say is try the usual things, make it one of the first things run on the computer, have no other programs running, nothing stored in memory to be pasted, check any other advice given in past threads in tech help and bugs on this topic and pray it works.
Title: hrmmm
Post by: gallahad on June 18, 2003, 06:45:58 pm: No matter what I do, I even left it on for 2 hours, all it does is locks up and it WON\'T work period I\'m kinda getting PISSED off at this damn game I heard its super awsome and I really want to plzy it SOOOOO BAD i think you guys should spend more time on this problem it is stopping alot of people from getting on it and I am one of them

Thanks, Gallahad
Title: sniff
Post by: darksidegirl on June 20, 2003, 12:40:24 am: that?s it, gallahad. But don?t become crazy! come on.....

yes. i?m having the problem. i really want to play. please, anyone knows what to do?

darksi
Title: solution to freezing thing
Post by: gilgameshbk on June 20, 2003, 03:40:06 am: Hey hey everybody. I had the exact same problem. Just let it wait. Window\'s says its not responding but how much can we trust Microsoft? I just went to bathroom and did some cleaning and when i came back i was at the plaza. Itll start responding eventually, dont despair. (unless you wake up the next morning and it still didnt work, then i have no clue whats wrong.)
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Post by: sethirob on June 20, 2003, 08:55:48 am: wow... i thought it was just me but i was wrong what the hell is wrong with it? is it just for windows xp users or everyone?
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Post by: sethirob on June 20, 2003, 09:24:34 am: it worked but i couldnt see anything in town every once in awhile i my character would pop up though and then it would go back to seeing nothing but my surroundings how can i speed it up???
Title: PSCLIENT caused an invalid page fault in
Post by: affectator on June 24, 2003, 04:59:11 am: Every time the game crashes into \"loading world\" is it the most commom error :

PSCLIENT caused an invalid page fault in
module SNDSOFT.DLL at 0167:01182831.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=01182831 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=022bfecc EBP=009f71b4
ECX=0000089d DS=016f ESI=009f7150 FS=33af
EDX=00002274 ES=016f EDI=00000020 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 ab 8b ca 53 83 e1 03 33 db f3 aa 8b 46 3c 85
Stack dump:
00000000 10de3ec0 00a86670 016b1b72 dce7c340 bfdf3522 022bff0c 82e57d54 016b1e0d 11099c9c bfdf38e6 82e57ce8 000003bd 00000000 11099c9c 00000000
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Post by: audioaxes on June 24, 2003, 07:05:31 am: i got same problems, however, once i let it initialize world, went to sleep, school, and a journey of self-discovery, then came back about a year later and actually was on the map :)

but then i take a step at like .000002 fps and then it freezes on me:(
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Post by: Chris Criswell on June 26, 2003, 08:20:11 pm: Everytime I wait for the Initialising Part it stays for a while..So then I made some lunch and watched TV, it finally loaded up in the palace, I tried to move then it froze right away. I restarted it, someone said once it loads it doesn\'t take as long after that, but I tried again and it\'s taking forever.
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Post by: Pisolino on June 27, 2003, 12:08:28 pm: me too.. i really want to play but i don\'t know why, first of all i thought it was my pc that isn\'t very new, p3 733 128 ram and 64 mb video card, but i\'m seeing that is a common problem also for a p4...
anyone could know why?
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Post by: Vengeance on June 27, 2003, 06:05:34 pm: You really need at least 256MB RAM to play this. Anything less is going to be unplayably slow even after you connect successflly.

As far as the long loading times go, it should take under a minute for a modern computer to load it in. Adjust that number upward more depending on how slow your computer is compared to a modern one.

I have heard about these multi-hour load times and it just doesn\'t make sense to me. Can someone post more details about this, or launch with -console command line option on their client and tell me what it is saying during that 2 hour period?

Thanks,
-Vengeance