Gentlesirs and gentleladies, I find myself in dire need of assistance!
I downloaded the game yesterday, sat through the very ambiguous update which stopped on numerous occasions so I began snooping around the forums and found several helpful topics that answered my many questions, such as why the installer would stop when the launcher executable was being updated, so on and so forth. Seeing as the game would constantly crash once I got to the character creation screen, I then proceeded to run the repair executable, to be faced with the stunning realization that 90% of the game was broken- I sat through everything being replaced by the repair/update tool and the game kept crashing once I did so much as click on a race name during character creation. I ran the repair again, the elves.zip file couldn't be fixed due to an error in the update path (namely forward slashes where back slashes should have been), the updater copied the file in the nearest suitable folder, from whence I manually picked it up and dropped it in the proper folder. Running the repair executable again, everything checked out. The game version was current each time I'd go into the game (0.5.8.1) and after all this struggle, once I finally turned sound on and decided to try window mode for the hell of it, I finally got to see the background of the character creation display.
Alas, each time I pressed one of the races the game would crash. I began snooping around again to find several posts that said intel cards don't exactly go hand in hand with PlaneShift, but I'm a stubborn oaf, so I had to do something about it. After numerous attempts of messing with the graphics quality nothing really changed so I started snooping around and about the installation folder where one particular file came into my sight: errorlog.txt.
Take a look for yourselves, if you will:
Tue Feb 14 16:09:15 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:09:15 2012, Could not locate widget ID=4 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:09:15 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:09:15 2012, Could not locate widget ID=7 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:09:15 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:09:15 2012, Could not locate widget ID=8 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:10:05 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:05 2012, Could not locate widget ID=4 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:10:05 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:05 2012, Could not locate widget ID=7 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:10:05 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:05 2012, Could not locate widget ID=8 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:10:09 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:09 2012, Could not locate widget ID=4 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:10:09 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:09 2012, Could not locate widget ID=7 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:10:09 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawswidget.cpp:1092 pawsWidget::FindWidget SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:09 2012, Could not locate widget ID=8 in RaceBox
Tue Feb 14 16:10:20 2012, <..\..\src\plugins\common\soundmanager\manager.cpp:469 SoundSystemManager::InitSoundHandle SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:20 2012, Error: PlaySound got NULL as soundname
Tue Feb 14 16:10:20 2012,
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/top_left_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/top_right_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/bottom_left_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/bottom_right_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/left_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/right_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/top_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >/paws/base/maps/leather/bottom_1.png<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, <..\..\src\common\paws\pawsimagedrawable.cpp:69 pawsImageDrawable::PreparePixmap SEVERE>
Tue Feb 14 16:10:28 2012, Could not open image: >Scaling Field Background<
Now, I may not be the best at problems regarding the computer, but from what I can tell the game simply can't find several files and hopefully it shouldn't be related to my video card.
Either way, I've done anything and everything I could not to ask for your help and be treated as an ignorant, but there comes a time when you really do need to look for help.
I'm quite looking forward to this game since, my normal hub for roleplaying is currently in a development phase, leaving naught much for me to waste my spare time on.
For informational purposes, I'm running Windows XP, service pack 2 on a very ambiguous little notebook laptop who's video card fails to be read by most system requirements sites but should be well enough able to run this game. I am absolutely sure I installed the 32 and not the 64 version, all my drivers are as updated as possible (I quadruple checked). If there's anything else you need to know, ask and I shall provide.
