Problems with the launcher crashing

[Gluttonman]

I torrented 0.5.4 yesterday, and played for a little while yesterday. Today, I updated my driver for my graphics, like the message told me to, and now when I click play, it shows the loading screen, shows the bar go all the way across, and when it would normally start up the game, it says "Planeshift has quit unexpectedly!" Does anyone know if theres anything I could do to fix this?

[Sen]

If it worked before is your char possibly in an unfortunate position that makes the client crash. Best ask a gm to move you to another place and try then again ( Look on irc for gms http://planeshift.it/irc.html )
I assume it happens after your char selection.

Sen

[-stf-]

I torrented 0.5.4 yesterday, and played for a little while yesterday. Today, I updated my driver for my graphics, like the message told me to, and now when I click play, it shows the loading screen, shows the bar go all the way across, and when it would normally start up the game, it says "Planeshift has quit unexpectedly!" Does anyone know if theres anything I could do to fix this?

Try to run psclient directly from console with command line switch -verbose and if that will happen again, it should give more specific information about the error.

[Gluttonman]

If it worked before is your char possibly in an unfortunate position that makes the client crash. Best ask a gm to move you to another place and try then again ( Look on irc for gms http://planeshift.it/irc.html )
I assume it happens after your char selection.

Sen

It happens before the character selection, if that helps.

I torrented 0.5.4 yesterday, and played for a little while yesterday. Today, I updated my driver for my graphics, like the message told me to, and now when I click play, it shows the loading screen, shows the bar go all the way across, and when it would normally start up the game, it says "Planeshift has quit unexpectedly!" Does anyone know if theres anything I could do to fix this?

Try to run psclient directly from console with command line switch -verbose and if that will happen again, it should give more specific information about the error.

I am not that good at technical talk, and I'm not sure how to do that. Could someone explain what that means? I'm sorry I'm so bad at this

[bilbous]

It would help to know which operating system you use.
In Windows you can use the run dialog to run 'cmd' to get a terminal window.
In linux xterm or some such though you can likely find a menu item listed as terminal.
mac I dunno.

[Gluttonman]

It would help to know which operating system you use.
In Windows you can use the run dialog to run 'cmd' to get a terminal window.
In linux xterm or some such though you can likely find a menu item listed as terminal.
mac I dunno.

Oh, right, silly me. I use Windows (currently Vista). I can get the command prompt open, but I'm not sure what to type once I get that open.

[Sen]

Im not using windows, but maybe I can remember how it should be...
Once the command prompt open, type first a few times "cd .." (there's a space between cd and the two dots) until the prompt shows only C:\
Then type "cd Program Files\Planeshift" followed by "psclient.exe"
Alternatively should "%PROGRAMFILES%\Planeshift\psclient.exe" also work if you don't want multiple commands ;-)

Sen

[bilbous]

'planeshift --verbose' ought to do it, without the single quotes of course.

[-stf-]

Once the command prompt open, type first a few times "cd .." (there's a space between cd and the two dots) until the prompt shows only C:\
Then type "cd Program Files\Planeshift" followed by "psclient.exe"
Alternatively should "%PROGRAMFILES%\Planeshift\psclient.exe" also work if you don't want multiple commands ;-)
Sen

Faster way to change directory: cd "c:\Program Files\PlaneShift"
Don't forget the quotes, because there are spaces in the path.