Just to check, I uninstalled and reinstalled Plane Shift again and ran the updater as Administrator before doing anything else.  Unfortunately, nothing changed. I guess that solution is only to fix a Vista problem, as Elvicat mentioned.

I can still get Plane Shift to work by using the Run As... solution, but it's really annoying to have to do this every time on XP.


As a side-note that has nothing to do with this issue, I noticed that an empty file pssetup.cfg was created a directory up from where I would expect:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.NAAR\Application Data\pssetup.cfg  (and not in the PlaneShift directory)

The other .cfg was in the correct location (not counting the user name problem):

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.NAAR\Application Data\PlaneShift\planeshift.cfg

I completely removed my Java installation and reinstalled Java 6 after rebooting, but it didn't help.  I also reinstalled my video drivers (good point about opengl vs. directx).  I was already using the newest driver release, and installing again didn't fix the problem either.

I already have hidden and system files set to display, and the PlaneShift folder under Application Data really is empty.

Does pssetup.exe (rather than psclient) use java or opengl?

I just double-checked my environment variables, and I don't have any set that are related to Cyrstal Space.

I also tried copying the msjava.dll into the PlaneShift directory (thanks Durwyn), but still nothing happens when I run psclient or pssetup.

I'm the only user and Admin of this computer and the account I'm using has full administrator privileges, so I don't think permissions would be the problem.

When I run pssetup or psclient with -help in a command terminal, another terminal very quickly appears and disappears.  After a lot of repeating and staring at the screen, I made out the text to say:

For pssetup.exe -help:
"Your configuration files are in... C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\PlaneShift"

For psclient.exe -help:
"Your configuration files are in... C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\PlaneShift
DEBUG: Sound System Software Renderer Initializing..."

I checked the c:\...\username\planeshift location (which exists), but nothing's in it.


I'll try uninstalling, redownloading, and installing again tonight.. hopefully I really did just get a bad download or something.

After making an empty msjava.dll in \windows\system32, still nothing happens when I run psclient.exe.  In dependency walker it does show the file as there but invalid.

I imagine that a missing msjava.dll could be completely unrelated to whatever the real problem is.  The check for its existance would probably be enough for it to show up as a warning in dependency walker, but not really cause any harm.

So if msjava isn't the culprit, is there anything I can do to get more info?  (like a switch for debug output or something)