Unable to startup

FrozenFrozen New York, NY Join Date: 2010-07-02 Member: 72228Members, Constellation
in NS2 General Discussion
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
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  • phatmandyphatmandy Join Date: 2010-08-27 Member: 73804Members
    im having the same issue. any ideas guys?
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  • salorsalor Join Date: 2004-02-21 Member: 26771Members
    <!--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
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  • WhiteZeroWhiteZero That Guy Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29511Members, Constellation
    edited August 2010
    <!--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.
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  • MaxMax Technical Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment Join Date: 2002-03-15 Member: 318Super Administrators, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    There should be a log file in %appdata%\Natural Selection 2\log.txt. Can you post that?
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  • FrozenFrozen New York, NY Join Date: 2010-07-02 Member: 72228Members, Constellation
    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
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    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)
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  • WhiteZeroWhiteZero That Guy Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29511Members, Constellation
    edited August 2010
    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.
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  • FrozenFrozen New York, NY Join Date: 2010-07-02 Member: 72228Members, Constellation
    Yea, wow, clearly the same exact problem
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  • WhiteZeroWhiteZero That Guy Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29511Members, Constellation
    <!--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?
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