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BlueSpud
Join Date: 2012-08-15 Member: 155650Members
Join Date: 2012-08-15 Member: 155650Members
I actually just downloaded ns2 (been waiting anxiously for almost a month) but when I clicked 'play' it just shows launching natural selection 2 then closes (steam is still open). My icon turns green indicating that I'm playing the game but it turns blue after about 15 seconds. I have Dx9, etc. As far as I can see there's no log of whats happening. In task manager, I don't even see it launching. I've spent about 5 hours trying to get this to work. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Hang tight and keep watching tweets from @NS2 for updates.
Hang tight and keep watching tweets from @NS2 for updates.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The Patch came out. The change log didn't say anything about not launching. I downloaded the update and exactly the same thing happens.
To help the devs find out what might be causing this, could you do the following please:
<b>Attach or post a DXDIAG information log file, this provides UWE with your system specs, driver and OS info:</b>
Click on your Windows Desktop Start menu.
In winXP you want to find "RUN", in Vista/7 you want the search bar at the bottom of the menu.
Type in DXDIAG and hit Enter
A window pops up, Either a Diagnostic will auto run or you need to click on a button: Run DxDiag now ~something similar to that.
When the progress bar is done, Click on the "Save All Information" button, you can either copy paste it to the forums or post it into a website such as <a href="http://www.pastebin.com" target="_blank">http://www.pastebin.com</a> and post the link here on the forums.
<b>Attach or post the contents of the NS2 "log.txt" file, this contains useful error messages for the UWE devs:</b>
To get to the file, press windows key + R, fill in "%appdata%\Natural Selection 2", hit enter.
You can either copy paste it to the forums or post it into a website such as <a href="http://www.pastebin.com" target="_blank">http://www.pastebin.com</a> and post the link here on the forums.
To help the devs find out what might be causing this, could you do the following please:
<b>Attach or post a DXDIAG information log file, this provides UWE with your system specs, driver and OS info:</b>
Click on your Windows Desktop Start menu.
In winXP you want to find "RUN", in Vista/7 you want the search bar at the bottom of the menu.
Type in DXDIAG and hit Enter
A window pops up, Either a Diagnostic will auto run or you need to click on a button: Run DxDiag now ~something similar to that.
When the progress bar is done, Click on the "Save All Information" button, you can either copy paste it to the forums or post it into a website such as <a href="http://www.pastebin.com" target="_blank">http://www.pastebin.com</a> and post the link here on the forums.
<b>Attach or post the contents of the NS2 "log.txt" file, this contains useful error messages for the UWE devs:</b>
To get to the file, press windows key + R, fill in "%appdata%\Natural Selection 2", hit enter.
You can either copy paste it to the forums or post it into a website such as <a href="http://www.pastebin.com" target="_blank">http://www.pastebin.com</a> and post the link here on the forums.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There's not a ns2 folder in app data. everything is in my steam apps, where steam put it. Even in there there's no log.
hmm
really hard to tell whats going on without that..
Do you get any form of an error or minidump?
If not i recommend deleting the game cache through steam and re downloading everything again.. Let us know!
REGARDLESS though, we still need your DXDIAG report as Zaggy mentioned above!
hmm
really hard to tell whats going on without that..
Do you get any form of an error or minidump?
If not i recommend deleting the game cache through steam and re downloading everything again.. Let us know!
REGARDLESS though, we still need your DXDIAG report as Zaggy mentioned above!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I installed the directx that came with ns2 and now dxdiag doesn't work. I'll se what I can do though. I have another computer I can try tomorrow, but I don't have it in front of me.
I think so too, I'm re-installing a bunch of things, ns2 being one of them. fingers crossed.
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function MSVCR80.dll.??2@YAPAXIHPBDH@Z called in 32-bit code (0x7bc3f3d8).
Register dump:
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:1007 GS:000f
EIP:7bc3f3d8 ESP:0033fce4 EBP:0033fd48 EFLAGS:00200202( - -- I - - - )
EAX:004f628a EBX:0033fcf0 ECX:004ff4ac EDX:006d7574
ESI:004ff4b0 EDI:004ff4ac
Stack dump:
0x0033fce4: 00000002 0033fd48 020e4860 80000100
0x0033fcf4: 00000001 00000000 7bc3f3d8 00000002
0x0033fd04: 004f6336 004f628a 7bc596c4 00000000
0x0033fd14: 00000000 0033fd34 00000008 020e4860
0x0033fd24: 00000000 0033fd7c 7bc9bcb4 7814db58
0x0033fd34: 020e4000 00000000 7814db61 a207c480
0200: sel=1007 base=7ffc0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x7bc3f3d8 in <wine-loader> (+0x7bc3f3d8) (0x0033fd48)
0x7bc3f3d8: subl $4,%esp
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (49 modules)
ELF 0-82001000 Stabs <wine-loader>
PE 340000- 3ab000 Deferred fmod_event
PE 3b0000- 3e8000 Deferred tbb
PE 400000- 505000 Deferred ns2
PE 510000- 65e000 Deferred fmodex
PE 660000- 72e000 Deferred fmod_event_net
PE 730000- 753000 Deferred lua5.1
PE 760000- 86e000 Deferred libcurl
PE 870000- 8b7000 Deferred spark_physics
PE 8c0000- a3e000 Deferred physx3_x86
PE a40000- b34000 Deferred physx3common_x86
PE b40000- b6e000 Deferred physx3cooking_x86
PE b70000- c37000 Deferred spark_render
PE c40000- e25000 Deferred d3dx9_42
PE e30000- e9c000 Deferred update
PE ec0000- f54000 Deferred gameoverlayrenderer
PE 10000000-10624000 Deferred spark_core
PE 3b400000-3b41e000 Deferred steam_api
PE 405b0000-405b4000 Deferred version
PE 405c0000-405c4000 Deferred psapi
PE 405e0000-405e9000 Deferred msacm32
PE 40790000-40794000 Deferred advapi32
PE 407f0000-407f4000 Deferred wsock32
PE 42410000-42481000 Deferred winmm
PE 424b0000-424ea000 Deferred user32
PE 425f0000-425f7000 Deferred gdi32
PE 426c0000-426cd000 Deferred avifil32
PE 42700000-4270b000 Deferred msvfw32
PE 42720000-42724000 Deferred rpcrt4
PE 427a0000-42816000 Deferred shlwapi
PE 44230000-44234000 Deferred ws2_32
PE 44260000-44264000 Deferred iphlpapi
PE 44280000-4434e000 Deferred wininet
PE 44410000-4443e000 Deferred comctl32
PE 44500000-44508000 Deferred ole32
PE 44610000-44769000 Deferred shell32
PE 44830000-44834000 Deferred msvcrt
PE 448b0000-448ba000 Deferred mpr
PE 448e0000-44a89000 Deferred d3d9
PE 448e0000-44a89000 Deferred d3d9
PE 44910000-44914000 Deferred wined3d
PE 44b50000-44b54000 Deferred imm32
PE 44bf0000-44bf4000 Deferred winex11
PE 44ec0000-44ec4000 Deferred riched32
PE 44ed0000-44ed4000 Deferred riched20
PE 78130000-781cb000 Deferred msvcr80
PE 7b810000-7b99b000 Deferred kernel32
PE 7bc10000-7bc14000 Deferred ntdll
PE 7c420000-7c4a7000 Deferred msvcp80
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 winewrapper.exe
00000009 0
0000000c services.exe
0000005c 0
0000002d 0
00000026 0
00000015 0
00000010 0
0000000d 0
0000000e winewrapper.exe
0000000f 0
00000012 mscorsvw.exe
0000001a 0
00000019 0
00000014 0
00000013 0
00000023 winedevice.exe
0000002b 0
00000028 0
00000025 0
00000024 0
00000029 plugplay.exe
0000002f 0
0000002c 0
0000002a 0
0000003a sendwndcmd.exe
0000003b 0
0000003c explorer.exe
0000003d 0
00000042 steam.exe
0000001e 0
0000005b 0
00000016 0
0000001c 0
00000058 0
00000052 0
0000002e 0
00000030 0
00000035 0
00000032 0
00000031 1
00000044 1
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0000005a 0
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00000051 0
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0000004f 0
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0000004d 0
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0000004b 0
0000004a 0
00000049 0
00000048 0
00000022 0
00000037 0
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0000003f 0
0000003e 0
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0000001d (D) C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Natural Selection 2\ns2.exe
00000020 0 <==
You did not mention you were running ns2 on wine?
If you are, that's not currently supported officially and is definitely the cause
You did not mention you were running ns2 on wine?
If you are, that's not currently supported officially and is definitely the cause<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh, I wasn't even thinking about wine. But yes I am. The problem I was having was a directX problem. I understand that wine is not supported, although I have seen that people have gotten it to work. I guess since its a wine problem, I must look else where for my answers. Thank everyone for their help.
Feel free to keep this thread active and seek others' help?
Some have definitely gotten it to work.. but i dont know how. Impressive to me.
Feel free to keep this thread active and seek others' help?
Some have definitely gotten it to work.. but i dont know how. Impressive to me.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah they have, I read the article and that error is what I got. If I got it to work I'd love to help other people do it as well. I could just install windows, but thats a big pain.
The main difference in this issue is that I use Windows XP SP 3, which according to your requirements is acceptable.
I have tried re-installing the game and also verifying the game cache along with deleting the shaders folder as you suggested in the "known issues and possible fixes" thread.
<a href="http://pastebin.com/SjpjWdnN" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/SjpjWdnN</a>, here is my dxdiag message.
I can add that I recently formated my computer and I could run NS2 then, but I was using Windows Vista.
The main difference in this issue is that I use Windows XP SP 3, which according to your requirements is acceptable.
I have tried re-installing the game and also verifying the game cache along with deleting the shaders folder as you suggested in the "known issues and possible fixes" thread.
<a href="http://pastebin.com/SjpjWdnN" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/SjpjWdnN</a>, here is my dxdiag message.
I can add that I recently formated my computer and I could run NS2 then, but I was using Windows Vista.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was able to get the game to run, using wine which doesn't apply to you. All I did to get the game to run was install visual c++ 2005 redistributable, which makes sense because the spark is written in c++. try that and tell me if it works.
I don't know if sp3 has it, but try downloading visual c++ 2005 redistributable.