Nothing Happens

[stregone]

Windows XP, athlon XP 3000+, 2 gig ram, radeon x800 pro.

So I downloaded the game, installed it, and had it run the updater. nothing happened. I go to the start menu and start the updater, nothing happens. I start the setup, nothing happens. After doing this several times I notice a window pops up for a split second and disappears each time.  Drivers are up to date. Any ideas?

[AryHann]

If you run the client (Planeshift Tech Demo or psclient.exe depending from where you are accessing the game) what happens instead?
Do you have a file called errorlog.txt in Planeshift directory?

[stregone]

Running psclient.exe results in the same thing. I did a search and found no errorlog.txt file in the directory.

[ThomPhoenix]

That popping window is probably DOS starting up, giving an error and closing itself again as it usually does.
So instead, try to start it from CMD:
-Start
-Execute
-type "cmd" and press Enter.
Now type in the adress of Planeshift and press Enter. For example I need to do this:
F: (to go from the C drive to the F drive)
cd F:\development\planeshift\ (to go to the Planeshift folder)
psclient.exe (to startup planeshift)

You can also add parameters such as -debug, so you will type this in CMD:
psclient.exe -debug

When psclient crashes now, it will not close but stay open and display the error in DOS.
By clicking on that "C:\" logo in the upper-left corner of the DOS window you will be able to copy-paste the log into a post.

Try it!

[stregone]

Still no go Window popped up the same as before and nothing printed to the console.

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

D:\Documents and Settings\Michael>G:

G:\>cd "G:\Games\PlaneShift Crystal Blue"

G:\Games\PlaneShift Crystal Blue>psclient.exe -debug

G:\Games\PlaneShift Crystal Blue>updater.exe

G:\Games\PlaneShift Crystal Blue>pssetup.exe

G:\Games\PlaneShift Crystal Blue>

[ThomPhoenix]

Okay, now that is strange.
The only things I can recommend is to make sure every driver is up-to-date and to do a reinstall/redownload of Planeshift 
If that doesn't work either you could always try to build Planeshift yourself from CVS, if you know your way with computers.

[stregone]

Fixed it. Reinstalled my video drivers.

I hadn't played any PC games since I got my Wii over a week ago. Earlier today I tried to play some and they were all doing this, so I knew it was something with my system. For some reason my first reinstall attempt was botched, I rebooted into a garbled screen. Had to safe mode and remove device. Then reboot and reinstall again. Wonder what the heck would cause that? Oh well, its all working now