after login crashes

[beerke]

I tried with the binary as with the cvs. It keeps however crashing after i press the OK button at the login screen. Under linux however it works fine.

http://swbhg.beerke.nl/planeshiftdumps/PlaneShift_Version_Jan%2017%202005_Addr00480154.dmp

[akaron]

i\'m having this problem repeatedly.

got the windows version (.004 in the beginning, .005 now). install it, run the updater and then and when, i wont be able to join the game again.

i can connect to the server, i can choose my character, then it starts loading, and after the loading is done, i get \"something unexpected happened\".

reinstalling the game always helps. but the problem keeps reoccuring.

i tried to make a backup of the working game, and copy it back over the old game, overwriting all files.

it didnt solve the problem, so the error must be in a file, which isnt there directly after updating, but is created later... (since these are the only files not in the backup, and not overwritten)

next time i got the problem, ill try to find out more.

[Gellule]

Beerke,

If you have a CVS version of planeshift, try to disable the two variables $CRYSTAL and $CEL that you must have setup in order to compile from the sources.

This may help to play the downloaded version of Planeshift.

[AryHann]

Hi,

But shouldn\'t there be the possibility to have both the binary client and PS CVS version (considering that you could be using it for modifications not related to PS ...) without changing \"settings\" constantly?

Ary

[Pihhan]

Originally posted by AryHann
Hi,

But shouldn\'t there be the possibility to have both the binary client and PS CVS version (considering that you could be using it for modifications not related to PS ...) without changing \"settings\" constantly?

Ary

You may try make some .bat file, which will change settings only when executing this batch file.
try something like:
set CRYSTAL=
set CEL=
rem original binary psclient
psclient.orig.exe
this should change variables only when you are running psclient, it will not be system wide. So after closing you have still defined CEL and CRYSTAL as you had before, and may try to run CVS version.

But... havent tried, i hope it will work.

[AryHann]

Thanks!

I will post the .bat file for who doesn\'t know (like I did) how a .bat file works and what it is necessary to be done.
(PK gave me the complete solution).

This goes into the file:

@echo off

set CRYSTAL=.
set CEL=.
psclient.exe


The file should be placed in the directory where psclient.exe is. The original one, and not the one compiled.

Run it, and here it goes! (or it should :-D )
Ary