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Support => Technical Help: Problems BEFORE entering the game => Topic started by: footpunker60 on February 17, 2004, 01:01:13 am

Title: Crash on start
Post by: footpunker60 on February 17, 2004, 01:01:13 am

Hi it make about 2 or 3 days... When i get into the game it crash the game close.Dont know why it start to do this without any reason!!!

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Post by: Boldstorm on February 17, 2004, 01:16:06 am

Post your computer specs so we can maybe help you with the problem.

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Post by: footpunker60 on February 18, 2004, 07:59:47 pm

1400 Adm thunderbird... ati 128meg or 64 dont remember all in wonder. 724 ram...think that\'s it but i need to tell you that ive been able to play for 1 week and it started to crash like that!

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Post by: mabuskills on February 19, 2004, 07:03:04 pm

128 megs of ram? or 64? wait.. 724? ah, screw it

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Post by: ered gorgoroth on February 21, 2004, 01:51:19 am

mine just starts with little lag and gets slower every step i take, until it completely stops.

my specs are:

winxp, 1.40 ghz, 562 ram, 56kbps modem, and a 3d graphics intel direct agp.


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Post by: Xordan on February 21, 2004, 02:03:29 am

Did you update any of your drivers in the last week?
If so, it may be the problem.

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Post by: Androgos on February 21, 2004, 09:17:22 am

ered gorgoroth: Your graphic card is a builtin? Those sucks. Propably that

footpunker60:
I assume you run windows:
Goto Run in the start menu and write dxdiag. Press enter
On the first tab, post your memory, processor and page file
On the display tab, post your Device Name, main driver, driver version approx. total memory and Current display mode

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Post by: footpunker60 on February 23, 2004, 02:44:46 pm

Its not a built in but i,ll show you the dcdiag you are asking:

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Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) processor,  MMX,  3DNow, ~1.3GHz

Memory: 768MB RAM
         
Page File: 165MB used, 1712MB available

2.

Card name: RADEON 7200 SERIES
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip type: RADEON 7200 AGP (0x5144)
DAC type: Internal DAC(350MHz)
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (85Hz)
Driver Name: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6414 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)
Driver Date/Size: 12/12/2003 09:50:24, 384512 bytes

Here hope it will help u!

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Post by: Hopiu on February 23, 2004, 06:01:18 pm

I got the shame problem as footpunker60!
The game crashes while starting it, yesterday it worked properly!
The first screen appears, but not the menu to login.

Sys. specs.:

AMD Athlon(tm) Processor,  MMX,  3DNow, ~1.4GHz
768MB RAM
Page File: 337MB used, 1538MB available
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce3
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce3
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Display Memory: 64.0 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (16 bit) (75Hz)
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.5303 (English)
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)

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Post by: Thalos on February 23, 2004, 07:03:27 pm

Hey,  i kinda have the same problem, i connect and the loading screen comes up, but thats it.

My details:

Processor: AMD athlon processor,MMX, 3Dnow, 1000mhz
Memory:112 Mb ram
Page file:99mb used, 1837 available.

Device name: SiS 630/730
Main driver: SiS 630m.drv
Approx. memory:1.0mb
Current display mode: 800x600 [16bit]

I have a feeling my computer is too old and slow, what do you guys think?

EDIT: the client is now crashing with the message:

Psclient has caused error in DYNASIS.DLL

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Post by: footpunker60 on February 24, 2004, 04:36:05 am

Want to add for my crash... it crash when im connected to the server not on the login screen but when i am.

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Post by: Hopiu on February 24, 2004, 02:45:45 pm

I ran the client with the postfix --console ant this is what came out:

Mounting maps: dungeon hydlaa podium temple tower.
planeshift.application.client: Planeshift Molecular Blue
planeshift.application.client: This game uses Crystal Space Engine created by Jo
rrit and others
planeshift.application.client: 0.97 rdev [Win32-X86-VisualC]
        loading definitions file /planeshift/gui/psgui.def...
        load successful (0 windows, 1 skins loaded.)
aws-debug: setting up global AWS palette...
aws-debug: finished palette setup.
planeshift.application.client: psEngine initialized.
Loading Race Part Regions...Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
Loading xml regions for race...
OK!
Loading RPG Data.....Loading RPG Data.....1OK!

And this is exactely the point where it hangs up...
Perhaps you should try the same so you can get out where the error is.

OK, i got it! have to comment the lines:
; Sound renderer
and
; Sound loader
now it works fine again! jipii

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Post by: Drayven on February 24, 2004, 06:03:49 pm

Hey, I am just going to really say... Erec, the reason you start out badly is probably because your internet connection... If you EVER notice with most Dial-up servers, when you first start out a download or an upload, it bursts forward with all the speed it can handle, then get worse and worse from there, and by the end, you wish you had never messed with it in the first place.

As for Footpunker, there could be a few things wrong in your download, psclient.cfg...  And many other things... Whats your internet connection?  When you connect to the server, does it actually get to the loading screen?  If so, is it froozen or does it actually CRASH?  What operating System are you running in?  We need system specs out the darn yin yang for anyone to help you out correctly.  Thanks, but once you post that, I will probably see what I can do... But answer these questions first. You may have already said them, but I may have over looked them.

Questions:
What OS (Operating System) are you running on?

Have you tampered you psclient.cfg, planeshift.cfg, sfc.cfg, or anything other configuration file or exe file such as pssetup.exe?

What is your internet connection?

Have you downloaded PS from someone who has tampered the files stated above or any other configuration files?

Title: loading lock up
Post by: TempestBloodClaw on February 24, 2004, 06:48:27 pm

this is some of my sys info

Machine name: U5O3D9
   Operating System: Windows 2000 Professional (5.0, Build 2195)
     Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
     System Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.        
      System Model: Uknown                          
      BIOS: Default System BIOS
      Processor: Intel Celeron, ~600MHz
      Memory: 256MB RAM
      Page File: 101MB used, 517MB available
      Windows Dir: C:\\WINDOWS
      DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
      DX Setup Parameters: Not found
      DxDiag Version: 5.03.0001.0902 32bit Unicode

i\'m having problems with loading up the world after logging in,  the music continues to play but i get no world, i did once but it still stayed frozen and the chat never started up, the only thing i\'ve updated is my DirectX to 9, usually takes about ten min to load the world .............any ideas......i also that Diag file if you wish for me to send so what you can get a better idea about my system

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Post by: Drayven on February 24, 2004, 07:15:58 pm

TempestBloodClaw, as long as you here the music playing, then the world is loading...  Your proc is kind of slow... I am running on a 1.1 and it takes me almost 2 minutes to load.  As for it lagging bad in the beginning that can be your internet connection, you may not have much HD space, you may have programs running in the background, you may have all of these happening infact. Anyways, let me ask you a few questions

Amount of Hard Drive Space Total/Used/Free? (ALL 3 please)

Whats your VCard and its meg intake?

Whats your internet connection?

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Post by: TempestBloodClaw on February 24, 2004, 08:28:07 pm

Amount of Hard Drive Space Total/Used/Free?  14.3 GB

Whats your VCard and its meg intake?
Asus ,32

Whats your internet connection?cable connection, Road Runner, and no firewall

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Post by: TempestBloodClaw on February 24, 2004, 08:29:58 pm

thank you very much for trying to help btw :] :tup:

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Post by: TempestBloodClaw on February 24, 2004, 08:40:24 pm

oh forgot some info you wanted


14.3 gb total   4.23 gb used  10 gb free

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Post by: Drayven on February 24, 2004, 11:53:54 pm

Ok then see your hard drive most likely has a slow speed to it that and your graphics card probably doesn\'t meet the system requirements.  I myself also run with a 32 meg, and it takes an extremly long time to load up for me too... Umm... If you would just wait it out, then you could probably play.

As for bettering your system, I am going to post a tweak system here soon on how to tweak your game to make it work to the best of its ability, even though it may not look or sound like the greatest.

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Post by: Hopiu on February 25, 2004, 05:45:55 pm

Run the client once with the -console postfix and post the results

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Post by: TempestBloodClaw on February 25, 2004, 11:19:33 pm

thanks for the help, and i\'m planing on getting my system better suited for this stuff anyway.

Thanks again

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Post by: TempestBloodClaw on February 25, 2004, 11:22:33 pm

what is the console postfix..........not to sound stupid or anything

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Post by: footpunker60 on February 27, 2004, 04:38:39 am

Still we solve other people probleme but start your own topic... didnt found any solution for mine.!!!!!!!!!!!11

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Post by: Drayven on February 27, 2004, 06:01:07 pm

Footpunker, go back through and read my posts.... There is information you have left out that will help us severly.  Anyways, it just sounds like you have lagging at the start, and not crashing... If you still hear the music playing, or it still SHOWS the screen, then you aren\'t crashed...  If it crashes then it is going to bring up a Load Error for Win 95/98 and for Win ME/XP it will bring up the Send Error Message.  Thats when you know the program has actually TRULY crashed.  Past that, you just aren\'t being patient enough to let the world load... I have a good computer and it takes me anywhere from 1-5 minutes to load the world totally...

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Post by: footpunker60 on February 28, 2004, 03:16:48 pm

I have a window crash message lol...and i let the world load.