Unable to startup

Frozen

Each time I try to boot up the alpha, it opens a full black screen which shrinks to half the screen and shows a debug report, but no option to actually start up the game. Anyone have a similar problem.

I did just recently update to the latest drivers for a geforce 8700m GT, on windows 7 32bit

phatmandy

im having the same issue. any ideas guys?

salor

<!--quoteo(post=1796462:date=Aug 27 2010, 01:37 AM:name=mattji104)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mattji104 @ Aug 27 2010, 01:37 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1796462"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I did just recently update to the latest drivers for a geforce 8700m GT, on windows 7 32bit<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


My guess would be the video card driver...try to revert driver..see if it works.


If it doest work...do a bug report with a copy/paste of the error message

WhiteZero

<!--quoteo(post=1796462:date=Aug 27 2010, 01:37 AM:name=mattji104)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mattji104 @ Aug 27 2010, 01:37 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1796462"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Each time I try to boot up the alpha, it opens a full black screen which shrinks to half the screen and shows a debug report, but no option to actually start up the game. Anyone have a similar problem.

I did just recently update to the latest drivers for a geforce 8700m GT, on windows 7 32bit<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Did the game work before the driver update? If so, there is your answer. Or were you just stating that so people didn't default to recommending updating your drivers.

Max

There should be a log file in %appdata%\Natural Selection 2\log.txt. Can you post that?

Frozen

It did work prior to updating the drivers, but I hadn't updated them for over a year and a half maybe two, I haven't been as active but when I heard the alpha was out I got back to thinking about things like that because of the spotty performance

It's obnoxiously long and repetitive so I cut the end with comments

Date: 08/27/10
Time: 17:12:52
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Build 151
RenderDevice: NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT (8.17.12.5896)
IDirect3DDevice9::Reset failed (Invalid call)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(960, 600, 1, D3DFMT_G16R16F) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- G16R16F, xSize=960, ySize=600)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(960, 600, 1, D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- A8R8G8B8, xSize=960, ySize=600)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(960, 600, 1, D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- A8R8G8B8, xSize=960, ySize=600)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(960, 600, 1, D3DFMT_A2R10G10B10) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- A2R10G10B10, xSize=960, ySize=600)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(960, 600, 1, D3DFMT_A16B16G16R16F) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- A16B16G16R16F, xSize=960, ySize=600)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(64, 64, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=64, ySize=64)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(64, 64, 1, Unknown) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- Null, xSize=64, ySize=64)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(128, 128, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=128, ySize=128)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(128, 128, 1, Unknown) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- Null, xSize=128, ySize=128)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(256, 256, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=256, ySize=256)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(256, 256, 1, Unknown) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- Null, xSize=256, ySize=256)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(512, 512, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=512, ySize=512)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(512, 512, 1, Unknown) failed (Invalid call)
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- Null, xSize=512, ySize=512)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(64, 64, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call) //repeats many times
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=64, ySize=64)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(128, 128, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call) //repeats many times
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=128, ySize=128)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(256, 256, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call) //repeats many times
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=256, ySize=256)
IDirect3DDevice9::CreateTexture(512, 512, 1, D3DFMT_D16) failed (Invalid call) //repeats many times
Direct3DDevice::Texture initialize failed- D16, xSize=512, ySize=512)

WhiteZero

Looks eerily familiar to this:
<a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/index.php?showtopic=110912&hl=" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/forums/in...=110912&hl=</a>

Anyway, try downloading a driver from nVidia that is a couple months old.

Frozen

Yea, wow, clearly the same exact problem

WhiteZero

<!--quoteo(post=1796597:date=Aug 27 2010, 06:40 PM:name=mattji104)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mattji104 @ Aug 27 2010, 06:40 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1796597"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yea, wow, clearly the same exact problem<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Except that guy's issue was fixed by totally wiping NS2 from his HDD and re-loading it.
Yours seems more like a driver issue. That is, unless somehow a bad driver load of a texture could corrupt it, causing all the texture issues.

Max?