tropicano

Join Date 05/2005

[Bug] Beta freezes at arena-screen

Hello,

I have downloaded and installed the Demigod Beta 1. However, it wont let me get further than a first glance of the arena-screen. I can navigate the menues etc. just fine, but the moment i launch a created LAN-game the game freezes. Have tried to launch about 10 games, same thing every time. Played around with the GFX-setting, but without any luck. The exact same thing happens for a friend of mine running on similar system specs, below you can find our specs.

comp1:
Intel Q6600 @ 3,2ghz
4GB DDR6400
GF 8800GT 52MB @ Forceware 175.19
Windows XP Pro SP2
DxDiag Information (link)

comp2:
Intel Q6600 @ 2,4ghz
2GB DDR6400
GF 8800GT 512MB @ Forceware 175.16
Windows XP Pro SP2

Please let me know if this is a known issue and if there is a fix available for this. If not, then I hope my above description of the problem helps!

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OS? Also, how long are you waiting? It took several minutes to load the first time I played.

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I have:

Q6600

2GB DDR2-800

88GT 512MB using Forceware 177.92

The above problem does not affect me... and your drivers are OLD. Update to the latest beta release and check again. If it isn't the video card drivers, it might be some other software issue.

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I have the same problem, and about the same system, mine's XP.

I got the latest drivers, but it still wont work, no matter how long I wait.

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Quoting GreenIllusion,

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I have the same problem, and about the same system, mine's XP. I got the latest drivers, but it still wont work, no matter how long I wait.

About the same is not the same as the same.

Please post the first 2 sections of your DXDIAG.

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Both mentioned system setups are running on Windows XP Pro, SP2. I have tried waiting for a minute or so.. Really doesnt feel as if its gonna un-freeze, since the loading screen is finished and i actually get a few seconds, well about one second, of animated water and free cameraview before it locks up..

I edited my first post, adding more system information as well as attaching my dxdiag-extraction. please let me know if more information is necessary.

Also, about my GFX drivers; I wouldnt exactly say they are old.. they were released this July and are actually the latest official release from Nvidia. I will however download the beta drivers you are suggesting and try them. I will get back to you with the results.

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Can you post a log?

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I have the same problem!

I'll copy + paste my post from another thread.

"Ive tried the beta on 2 systems and get an identical crash every time I launch the map from the lan setup screen. The map loads up and I can see it when it is zoomed out but than it freezes after 1 second but the music keeps on playing. I dont see any units on the map.

I suspect it must be some app I use that makes the game crash since I have pretty similar setups on both machines.

Anybody else use mc affee security center and have the same problem?

System 1: Stationary, win xp sp3, xp 3500+, 1 gig ram, geforce 7900gt.

System 2: Laptop, win xp sp3, HP c2d, 2 gig ram, geforce 7600gt.

Where can I locate error log for the game?"

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Great! I am not the only one! I've also the same problem. The first game I created, after waiting about 5 minutes, the arena appears and nothing happened. The interface was still working though. I went to the settings and put all the video settings to low, playing in 1024x768(85). I restarted a game (loading was faster) and i was able to go a little further. My demigod appeared and i was able to play for around 20 seconds and then... BANG... All units froze. But like the first time, the UI still worked. My Demigod portrait was still animated, i could go to the skill tree, stats screen, menu (so i could quit the game properly ) but all the units were frozen.

System :

Windows XP Pro SP3

Athlon XP 3500+

1Go RAM

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800XT (Catalyst drivers 8.3. Not the latest, i plan to update them this evening when i ll get back home)

DxDiag Information

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One of the systems I mentioned above uses Avast! Antivirus (comp 1), while the other uses NOD32. Worth noting could be that another friend of mine, who run an identical machine to "comp2" specified above, runs the beta just fine.. From what Im able to gather it appears that this "crash" only appear for users using Nvidia cards.. only 7xxx and 8xxx.. Perhaps just a coincidence?

And just as DerfelGadarn explained; the game freezes with an empry arena, music continues to play in the background and the mouse is still responsive. Its however a hell to exit the game from here if you havent got the task manager on a secondary monitor, as the game wont minimize and hence wont show the task manager at CTRL-ALT-DEL bashing..

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Mmmh, not exactly the kind of freeze i got... Well i'll see if updated drivers solve this, if not, i'll create another thread to have 1 issue/thread.

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I have some update for this bug. Finally i was able to bypass(but not remove ) key crashing from this post and i managed to host a game, but i got stuck on that "everything except music is frozen" bug. It seems that game freezes only if you move mouse cursor to game window(i play in windowed mode, so some freezes don't force me to reset). Just before game started I opened Demigod Output Log and there were some things that should explain why units aren't spawned and demigod is freezing.

There is my DXDiag: http://pavlata.ic.cz/Stuff/DxDiag01.txt

There is Output Log before moving mouse over demigod window(music is playing and water& fog is animating, but nothing is spawned): http://pavlata.ic.cz/Stuff/OutputLog01.txt

And this is what appears in log after moving mouse(music is still playing but animations stop and program freezes):

INFO: MESHBP: /meshes/game/TargetArea_mesh
WARNING: Error running OnUpdateCursor script in CScriptObject at 0ba5fd80: Moho::GetCacheFilename: Unable to create asset cache directory (something at Documents and Settings, its long and i cannot scroll the log because both demigod and output log are totally dead now)

Original Callstack:

Unknown Symbol(address 0x00756acf)

I hope that this will help solving this problem, because i want finally try some gameplay

EDIT:

Hah figured it out! This bug happens if you have some "weird" symbols in Documents and Settings/.../... (for example mine

C:\Documents and Settings\Pavel\Local Settings\Data aplikací\Gas Powered Games\Forge\cache\resources).
It seems that demigod can't handle these.
AFAIK this can be solved by creating new folder without these symbols and editing Local AppData in registry, or waiting for patch. I couldn't wait any longer .

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Thanks alot for the info, I will try as soon as I get home. Will post the results in this thread. Cheers!

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Hmm.. could the "ä" in the following string be the cause of this (Swedish windows)?

C:\Documents and Settings\Tropz\Lokala inställningar\Application Data\Gas Powered Games\Forge

However, I am unable to locate the sub-folders to the Forge folder, which you refer to above. My friends setup looks just like mine when it comes to this folder structure. What exactly should I change in the registry to get the game to run?

Thanks for any input.

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I think so.

At first, create a restore point(i'm not sure how is this called in your localization, i hope that you know what i mean). Then create a new folder C:\Documents and Settings\Tropz\Lokala installningar and copy Application Data folder from original Lokala inställningar(just copy, some programs may be still linked to original path after editing registers).

In RegEdit search for Local AppData in This Computer. Then just change Local AppData path from C:\Documents and Settings\Tropz\Lokala inställningar\Application Data to C:\Documents and Settings\Tropz\Lokala installningar\Application Data. I edited this only in first four search results, which was at:

This computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders

This computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders

This computer/HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders

This computer/HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders

(you have this path at bottom line in RegEdit)

I'm not sure what will happen if you won't copy the folders, probably some applications won't run(some files even cannot be copied because windows is using them). I plan that after this is fixed, i switch to original folder.

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Aww missing Edit button.

Don't worry about that missing \cache\resources folders. Demigod will finally be able to create them after you do what i wrote.

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Hi ppl, ive the same problem.

Win Xp Sp2

Ati hd3870

4 giga rams

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Do you have a foregn version of windows with non-ascii characters in key directories (including your user name)? That's the first, most likely problem.

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Hello GPG & Stardock! Is there a fix coming for this?

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yep fix patch come soon like may 2009

(i have same freeze problem)

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Nah, the fix will probably come with the next build. We're still in beta, so they can move relatively quickly. Also, SD isn't most publishers, they actually budget for post-release support.

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Quoting Spell,

reply 14

I think so.

At first, create a restore point(i'm not sure how is this called in your localization, i hope that you know what i mean). Then create a new folder C:\Documents and Settings\Tropz\Lokala installningar and copy Application Data folder from original Lokala inställningar(just copy, some programs may be still linked to original path after editing registers).

In RegEdit search for Local AppData in This Computer. Then just change Local AppData path from C:\Documents and Settings\Tropz\Lokala inställningar\Application Data to C:\Documents and Settings\Tropz\Lokala installningar\Application Data. I edited this only in first four search results, which was at:

This computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders

This computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders

This computer/HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/Shell Folders

This computer/HKEY_USERS/.DEFAULT/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/User Shell Folders

(you have this path at bottom line in RegEdit)

I'm not sure what will happen if you won't copy the folders, probably some applications won't run(some files even cannot be copied because windows is using them). I plan that after this is fixed, i switch to original folder.

I've tried this and it works. Thanks Spell!

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Just wanted to inform that the latest beta still dont work with non-english letters in the install/config path.

At least not for me.

If this is not addressed, i'll force all our beautiful scandinavian women to boycott Stardock and GPG, even when they are drunk. That will be hard, but i am a determined soul.

You do not want that, do you?

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I can comfirm that the 0.61 still dosnt work with non-english localized Windows XP.

WARNING: Rules failed to load: Moho::GetCacheFilename: Unable to create asset cache directory [C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXX\Lokala inställningar\Application Data\Gas Powered Games\Demigod\cache\resources]

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As of 0.62.015 this is still an issue.

here is a bit of more log for you

INFO: Starting background task "Map loader /maps/map09/map09.scmap"
INFO: Background task "Map loader /maps/map09/map09.scmap" running.
INFO: Active game mods for blueprint loading: \000{ }
INFO: Loading blueprints...
INFO: Registering blueprints...
INFO: Preloading resources.
WARNING: Rules failed to load: Moho::GetCacheFilename: Unable to create asset cache directory [C:\Documents and Settings\Fredrik Persson.BERTIL.000\Lokala inställningar\Application Data\Gas Powered Games\Demigod\cache\resources]

         Original callstack:

             Unknown symbol (address 0x00516681)
INFO: Active mods in session: \000{ }
INFO: Background task "Map loader /maps/map09/map09.scmap" finished.
INFO: Saving replay to "C:\Documents and Settings\Fredrik Persson.BERTIL.000\Mina dokument\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Demigod\replays\Sevenix\LastGame.DGReplay"
WARNING: Granny: FileReading (C:\work\forge\beta\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
INFO: Total Material Count: 10 Total Mesh Count: 10
WARNING: Granny: FileReading (C:\work\forge\beta\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
WARNING: Granny: FileReading (C:\work\forge\beta\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
WARNING: GrannyclothImport: File does not contain AssetInfo section.
INFO: Can't find texture "/maps/map05/textures/decalAttenuation.dds" -- trying fallback.
INFO: Can't find texture "/maps/map05/textures/decalCube.dds" -- trying fallback.
INFO: Can't find texture "/maps/map05/textures/decalVolume.dds" -- trying fallback.
WARNING: Granny: FileReading (C:\work\forge\beta\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
WARNING: Granny: FileReading (C:\work\forge\beta\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
WARNING: Granny: FileReading (C:\work\forge\beta\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
INFO: Active mods in sim: \000{ }
INFO: Loading save file: \000/maps/MAP09/MAP09_save.lua
INFO: Loading script file: \000/maps/MAP09/MAP09_script.lua
WARNING: BeginSession() failed: Moho::GetCacheFilename: Unable to create asset cache directory [C:\Documents and Settings\Fredrik Persson.BERTIL.000\Lokala inställningar\Application Data\Gas Powered Games\Demigod\cache\resources]

         Original callstack:

             Unknown symbol (address 0x00516681)
INFO: !!!!!! Beat 0 is now available. Any loading after is this is on the foreground thread.
WARNING: No cam called \000WorldCamera\000 - failed executing - \000Reset
INFO: MUSIC : Activating cue [Start_Cue]

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Same thing here, I have 0.62.015 here, Brazilian Portuguese Windows.

The game stucks at the VS. screen. Is it really that hard to fix this? It's been an issue since first beta release, it's just said because I haven't been able to play it and I was in the very first beta (pre-ordered the boxed a whole lot of months ago).

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