Client Does Not Open

[EnricoDandolo]

It is 1:11am, I went through the update true/false issue, got the updater working and to say no more updates were available.  But then when I went to open the client again from the start menu or the in folder app it will not open.

[Torias Reethu]

I think i'm experiencing a similar, if not the same problem. I can't get the new client to start, an error message "access violation at 7c9206c3" appears after about 0.5 seconds. I tried to reinstall the 02 client, it started normally, then updated again, with the same result. Today i downloaded the full installation and tried that, also the same behaviour. I tried with/without sound and vertex buffer object def/on/off...
When i was completely out of nerves, i set the "compatibility mode for windows 95" for psclient.exe, not expecting anything different. But it started, with no sound, cryptic squared instead of the "Planeshift Steel Blue 0.4.03" in the title, and the psclient process had to be killed manually after quitting. I don't know which of these strangenesses are caused by the compatibility mode or what exactly this mode does, but maybe that could offer a hint to what's wrong...

any ideas? 

P.S. i could offer a crash dump, as it was too early for the error log

sorry, forgot my system: Athlon XP 2600+, Geforce 6600GT with driver version 178.24 (updated about a month ago), Win XP SP2

the error log wasn't even existing after the crash, i guess that logging would have begun later. and when i try to start it in console, nothing happens but the prompt returns after an empty line...

[Caarrie]

a console/error log would be helpful as well as your system stats including os and graphics card, updating graphics card drivers as well might help. you can also take a look at http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=31760.0

[EnricoDandolo]

My computer is an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ w/ 2.19 GHz and 448MB RAM
The Graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce4 MX vs 6.14.0010.5316
Also my DirectX is 9.0 vs 4.09.0000.0904

It is not a crash, the client does not open on command. I have taken the last line from update a few times and redid the last update but am still unsuccessful.

Will try downloading full setup again.

[Torias Reethu]

Seems like I found out what caused the client startup problems... it was the openal sound renderer.  
I switched to software like . Elvicat suggests in http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=34258.0.
So I can confirm that it helps if the client won't start. I also have a Realtek sound chip, but an ALC650 on a MSI K7G2GM-L board.

[EnricoDandolo]

I think perhaps it is not opening because just before the updater finishes it will say 'Failed to remove file /this/data/config/Jamfile' ... but I don't know what that means or how to fix it.

[Torias Reethu]

i guess you already tried the updater with --repair and it found some files to replace, and then started the updater again to be sure. Then it said that there would be updates, but this Jamfile was missing.
It was the same procedure for me, but i think there might be a problem with updating after --repairing and that it isn't causing your problem with the exe not responding.

[EnricoDandolo]

the anticipation is starting to get to me, all I've gotten from the game so far was the client's starting music before it told me to update the first time ...it was good music though

[EnricoDandolo]

its not because of the slight diff in RAM, is it? I have now downloaded the new version and had a successful update, but still the client will not open