Well I can't really help much anymore... if you don't have any error message, then it should have just worked. :/

As I said, I can't really help with it... I don't know anything about the code (only it's big), I don't know what problems might it have, even less what might cause them, I just built it, and it worked for me... sorry.

oh? sorry I have it installed on my system folder so I didn't know it was needed.

http://www.zlib.net/zlib123-dll.zip

This is the official distribution package, get the dll from it.

To my surprise, building /stable/ using the library revisions from the guide, and building the client with the "with static libs" option (the one to build with DLLs gave me a few thousand link errors), the program worked as-is without any chagne needed to the code! I find it really strange, but it's good.

I did. I ran everything as admin, I have UAC disabled anyway. I also checked the permissions in the folder, just in case, and even rar'ed the files (with the option to keep attributes disabled) and unrared again. No luck in any case.

Hi people, I had known this game for a while, but the last time I tried it (years ago), was still too early for my tastes.
I recently re-found it, and decided I would take a look at it, to see how much it has improved.

But for my disappointment, and despite all my efforts, I have only been able to get it to crash.

I have tried everything I could, before posting:
- Installed, updated, and crashed.
- Tried to enable XP compat on both exes, still crashed.
- Tried to use "run as administrator". crashed.
- uninstalled, and executed every program (including the installer) with "run as administrator". crashed.
- uninstalled again, and installed into C:\PlaneShift. Crashed.
- tried with xp sp2 compat too. also crashed.

(Being a coder myself, I even tried to look at the code and compile it myself, but gave up quick cos I got tired from missing libs/headers)

In all cases, the error was the same:

(sorry,I use spanish windows)
  Nombre del evento de problema:   BEX
  Nombre de la aplicación:   psclient.exe
  Versión de la aplicación:   0.4.0.0
  Marca de tiempo de la aplicación:   47c9fff2
  Nombre del módulo con errores:   StackHash_4a07
  Versión del módulo con errores:   0.0.0.0

After it, a DEP warning pops into the tray and crashes again, saying DEP had to close it.

EDIT: Oh forgot to post my pc specs:

CPU: Core2 Duo E6550 @2.98ghz
RAM: 2Gb
GPU: GeForce 8800gts (320mb, XFX, using forceware 174.74 beta drivers)
OS: Windows Vista SP1 (x64)

EDIT:

I dont' have any problem with this, but if the forum doesn't allow it I will (if you haven't done it already) remove the link ASAP.

This is a straight unmodified build of PlaneShift's stable branch from the SVN (as of 2008/04/02, Y/M/D), compiled following the official guide.
I built it with vs2005 under Microsoft Vista Home Premium with the Windows SDK v6.0a installed (but not sure if it still uses the vs2005 libraries anyway).

http://www.uploading.com/files/Q9087L4I/PlaneShift-stable-vs2005-vista-zlib.zip.html (was missing zlib1.dll)

Reminder: This a UNOFFICIAL build of a program in development, so I guess neither me nor the PlaneShift developers will provide support for it. I built it, and it worked for me, so if it also works for you, be happy, if it doesn't... well you can try to follow the compilation guide yourself and try your luck.

The console pops up and closes (in a new window) and does not seem to show any messages (it's too fast to actually be sure).

PD: I tried to get the code from cvs and check it myself but sf.net's cvs server seems to be broken.