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Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:27 am
by AXE
Well I was looking forward to testing the affects of this mod, but sadly it wont run on my 2 machines that are different from each other!

#1 pc: Win 7, Quad core AMD at 3.0, 4 Gb ram, ATI 5570

After trying many types of settings, I feel its the video card.

#2 pc: Win XP, Dual Core at 2.8, 2GB ram, ATI X700

Video card must be the issue.


Download was Great!
Installed Great!
Ran first time, XP machine wanted DirectX so installed it- then ran
Made my ID files OK
I used many different variations of settings but it crash,
- XP machine crash to desktop; no message
- Win 7 machine, could hear startup towards the menu, but no image, occasional flicker of white light. then freeze


I have created this topic for others to come too, and post thier problems, and/or fixes 8)

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:59 pm
by Arokhs Twin
Sorry to day but I am unable to get it working. I did the same steps as Axe did but just get a black screen when launching the game - unable to quit it even with ctrl-alt-delete and task manager. Had to log off and back on to get the game to quit.

If I disable the shaders I can get the game to run but starting a new game makes it crash straight away. Tried all the settings to no avail.

System specs: Windows 7 64 bit on AMD Phenom X4 965BE @3.4Ghz, 8GB RAM and AMD 4870HD 1GB graphics card.

Maybe its AMD systems?

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:22 pm
by GoldenGate023
It's not the AMD's fault :)
I have a six core AMD bulldozer+8 gig of ram+nVidia gt630 and win 7 X64
It works pretty good :)
Also I have the original game if its worth something :)
And I cant see the dragon's body if dump mapping is enbled at the Riot Engine optons.

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:14 pm
by Arokhs Twin
You have an Nvidia graphics card though.

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:56 pm
by Shelim
Okay, this seems to be pretty popular problem which is very strange (I tested on 3 different PCs and everything worked fine) - I am now installing WinXP on Virtual Machine, I'll try to reproduce this out there.

Is there anything in log (Drakan/Mod10th/Drakan10th.log, open via notepad)?

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:01 pm
by Arokhs Twin
Emailled you my log file. Tried it again, game loads but starting a new game displays a few white triangles on a black background then crash to desktop with engine stopped working error.

I also included the crash log from the windows event log.

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:52 pm
by Shelim
It seems that I've just found and confirmed bug in core ATI driver (not the first, have I mentioned that? ;) ) I've borrowed computer from a friend with ATI card - expected exactly the same thing as all of you. More weird is every time I try to attach debugger, I got BSoD pointing to ati3duag.dll...

Anyways, I am tracking problem (via so-called printf debugging :D), the solution (workaround) should be available shortly :)

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:34 pm
by Shelim
ATI Crash-to-desktop issues are solved!

Launcher should propose auto-update to fixed version. If you find any other bugs, don't hesitate to contact me :)

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:39 pm
by Arokhs Twin
Thanks, that's great news! Ill give it a try tomorrow and let you know.

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:59 pm
by AXE
Awesome! Will try Sunday, gota wedding to party at today. 8)

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:13 pm
by Arokhs Twin
Managed to try it and it is working fine - thanks for the hard work. I will finish The Ancient's Gates then I think Ill play through Drakan OOTF again.

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:50 pm
by AXE
ATI video card issue seems to be fixed with the update. Excellent work! I have played through for 2 to 3 days now with no glitch's even.:)

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:31 pm
by Shelim
To be honest - reason behind that ATI crash was very unlucky typo on my part (and it passed nVidia and static checks without warnings!) ;) Everything should be fine now :)

Re: Fails to Launch: Issues

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:27 pm
by donkeymilk
updated to fixed version.
once I press Launch Drakan nothing happens
win xp
AMD5450 CARD,with driver '13-1-legacy_xp32_dd_ccc_whql'
log:
> Injecting non-classic DDraw module...
in "MyDirectDrawCreate()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_Creators.cpp" on line 9

> Requesting lpDD->QueryInterface() [recognized call for IID_IDirectDraw4]
in "myIDirectDraw::QueryInterface()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_QI.cpp" on line 12

> Injecting non-classic DDraw4 module...
in "myIDirectDraw::QueryInterface()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_QI.cpp" on line 13

> Injecting non-classic device caps enumerator...
in "myIDirectDraw4::GetCaps()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_Prebuffs.cpp" on line 50

> Requesting lpDD4->QueryInterface() [recognized call for IID_IDirect3D3]
in "myIDirectDraw4::QueryInterface()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_QI.cpp" on line 33

> Injecting non-classic D3D3 module...
in "myIDirectDraw4::QueryInterface()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_QI.cpp" on line 34

> Injecting non-classic d3d devices enumerator...
in "myIDirect3D3::EnumDevices()" file: "Hooked_D3D3_Prebuffs.cpp" on line 10

> Injecting non-classic d3d ZBuffer formats enumerator...
in "myIDirect3D3::EnumZBufferFormats()" file: "Hooked_D3D3_Prebuffs.cpp" on line 64

> Injecting non-classic display modes enumerator...
in "myIDirectDraw4::EnumDisplayModes()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_Prebuffs.cpp" on line 9

> Injecting non-classic device id...
in "myIDirectDraw4::GetDeviceIdentifier()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_Prebuffs.cpp" on line 92

> Releasing D3D interface...
in "myIDirect3D3::Release()" file: "Hooked_D3D3_Overrides.cpp" on line 10

> Releasing DDraw interface...
in "myIDirectDraw::Release()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_Overrides.cpp" on line 10

> Releasing DDraw4 interface...
in "myIDirectDraw4::Release()" file: "Hooked_DDraw_Overrides.cpp" on line 18
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Reinstalled on win 7 ,and it starts ok. with latest amd driver
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There is a intermittent flashing bar at top of screen ,like the type u get after alt tabbing out of a game and it doesn't reset properly,is this a known probem?