Fully loaded, then error message? Help please :)

[Ohtarn]

Well, I\'m a newbie to this game. I just installed PlaneShift, then ran the Updater as well (although, it said there were some sort of errors there, but it ran through okay I think), the configured it using Setup etc. etc. Now, I have registered, and created my character, but when I go to actually play it goes to the loading screen and fully loads. When it\'s done loading, all of a sudden the program freezes and I get a dialogue box come up, saying something about an error and do I want to save some sort of script (at least, that happened the first time, when it froze the second time and I went to view the error message it was also frozen). Any suggestions as to what I can do?

System:
Windows XP
256 Mb RAM
35 GIG free space
Video and sound cards are working fine
800 x 600 Optima monitor
40 GIG hard drive

[Karyuu]

Hiya, knowing the exact error message would probably help :) You also didn\'t list what kind of video card you have - that they are working fine isn\'t the kind of info we\'d find useful. For starters though, try disabling sound through the setup application and tryig to log in again.

[Ohtarn]

Thanks! I tried that, and this time although it got me a little farther (it loaded and then loaded a bit of the world - I could just see my character but there was darkness around her) it froze again with the error message;
Something unexpected happened in PlaneShift Crystal Blue.
Details: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION AT 00C877FB
Would you like to save a diagnostic file?
Yes/No

I\'m not sure how to access to check what video card I have, but I checked the Display settings and under \"Adapter\" it says;
NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT
If that might be it? (I\'m pretty clueless ^___^)

[rugbyfan]

Ok, Do you know when you configured your settings! What did u actualy do?
I had a similer problem witch karyuu helped me with!
Go to start > planeshift crystal blue > planeshift set up > Then under sound options click the crr button then click ok then launch the game if this does not fix your problem please report it back here!:)

[Moocha]

Also please note that a Vanta-class card is well under the minimim system requirements for the game, as it will have 8, 16, or at most 32 MB of video RAM and is only AGP 1x or 2x. In cases like these the card will have to resort to using AGP for fetching a lot of textures from the main system RAM, so you better have at least 512 or 768 MB of system RAM and a stable AGP controller, and additionally you will have to make sure that the AGP aperture setting in your BIOS configuration is set to at least 128 MB, or a quarter of your system RAM, whichever is lowest.
Even if you get it to run, you will experience poor performance.

Edit: Spelling, AGP aperture tip.

[Ahriman]

Try to get a vieo card (If you want to get a new one and actually PLAY PlaneShift) Try to get one OVER 64MB . I tried a 64MB on my friens computr (all other stuff same as mine) and it was running very choppy.

[DaveG]

Video RAM isn\'t always the culprit.  I have a Mobile Radeon with only 16MB but I can run the game more or less fine.  The speed of the GPU and CPU are important.  It\'s just that usually poor speed and poor RAM coincide.

[Ohtarn]

The computer is new, we have 256 or 512 RAM I think, so it should be okay? After changing all that, I can get into the game and stay there, but my problem is that I can only see my character and the characters that move around me - regardless of if I change the contrast/brightness etc.

Thank you all for your help by the way, it sucks being a newbie ^____^

Edit: And yes, I did just search, I just tried updating my drivers and it didn\'t change that much (except that the loading screens weren\'t as pixelly but that really wasn\'t all that much of a problem).

Edit edit: http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?img=15-203742L&y=2006&m=01&t=png&rand=6145&srv=img2 This is what I see, if that helps.

[DaveG]

If that\'s a new computer, you\'re running at an abhorred resolution.  The crappiest of computers can handle 1024x768.  I\'m running at 1400x1050 with 125% zoom on the text to make things not small.  (and my graphics card isn\'t that fantastic)

Edited to add:
Darkness bug.

Try sticking -fullbright on the end of your game command.  Edit the shortcut to do that.  That will turn off the lighting effects.

[Ohtarn]

I changed the resolution to and from 800x600 to 1024x768 etc. and it didn\'t make a difference to what I was seeing.

Theres a screenshot, if it helps to understand: http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?img=15-203742L&y=2006&m=01&t=png&rand=6145&srv=img2

Edit: How do I edit the shortcut? /coughfeelsstupidcough

By the way, thankee very much for your help.

[Karyuu]

Right-click on your PlaneShift shortcut, hit Properties, and then:



:)

[Ohtarn]

Thank you That has helped a lot, but now I am getting this:
http://www.glowfoto.com/viewimage.php?img=15-210914L&y=2006&m=01&t=png&rand=6704&srv=img2

It\'s something to do with the textures maybe?

[Karyuu]

Something that a graphics card driver update will easily fix :)

For NVidia, visit http://www.nvidia.com
For ATI, visit http://www.ati.com
For anything else, use http://www.Google.com to find the correct manufacturer address, and download the latest driver version for your video card.

[Ohtarn]

I actually just updated my graphics card driver today to see if it would fix the issue, but to no avail. However, I had a lot of trouble doing so because for some reason when I updated it from Nvidia.com, it said it couldn\'t help me - that is, that there were no options for me to download (but then I updated from another site, but I\'m not sure if it worked or not... ja.)

[Karyuu]

I\'m having an insane amount of problems with Nvidia drivers as well, incidentally :P Thankfully non-PlaneShift-related. Bah, should\'ve gone with ATI.

What driver version are you using at the moment?