D2X-W32 Problems

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 6:30 pm

After the message says "Prepare for Descent" in D2X-W32, it quits. what should I do?

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:28 pm

Does it do that with every level?

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:23 pm

Diedel wrote:Does it do that with every level?

Yes...

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:02 pm

Are there any files with extension ".256" in your Descent folder?

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:17 pm

yes, why?

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:29 pm

Nope. Them missing would've been an explanation for your problems. Get the D2X version I had uploaded to my Descent site an hour ago or so and try it - maybe it works for you. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce your problem.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:53 pm

Do you have the SDL 1.2.7 set installed in your D2 dir?

This is a sound thing and the kinda crash you're getting smacks of a sound crash.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:59 pm

Sorry, I dont have 1.2.7 on my d2 directory, thanks for the tip

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:08 am

Let me know if installing SDL 1.2.7 helped. If you cannot find it, I can upload the binaries to my Descent site.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:07 pm

it didn't work

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:32 am

Actually the proper SDL DLL is included in my D2X-W32 zip file. I'm afraid I cannot help you then. I just cannot reproduce that bug.

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:52 pm

SDL 1.2.8 works with your build too (no reason why not though)

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:11 pm

where you getting 1.2.8?

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:21 pm

Lastest stable release

http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:10 pm

thanks

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:29 pm

Dark Falcon wrote:thanks

X2!!!!

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:43 pm

You're welcome

Dark Falcon wrote:thanks

I take it the latest dsl helped/fixed your problem?

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:36 am

Garak wrote:You're welcome

Dark Falcon wrote:thanks
I take it the latest dsl helped/fixed your problem?

It gave me an error.

*sweat drop*

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:32 am

Which error?

I will d/l SDL 1.2.8 and incorporate and link it with D2X-W32.

Edit: New version of D2X-W32 compiled and linked with SDL 1.2.8 is online. New SDL DLL is included in the zip file.

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 4:04 pm

Diedel,
Does d2x-w32 write any kind of crash info to a file like stderr or anything? Or is that something the old d2x versions did?

I'm just curious.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:39 pm

Afaik not. The debug version might do that, but only for trapped exceptions (i.e. problems the programmers have foreseen and created some code to test for them and report them if they occur - usually with some assert macro calling a warning or error message. In such a case, you will see a message box on-screen though).

If there is a bug that causes a real crash (i.e. an unhandled exception of some kind), there will be no error logging.

The same is true for problems in the SDL. I e.g. had found at one time that the SDL would spuriously fail to properly initialize the OpenGL subsystem. All the proper arguments were passed to the proper functions, but the OpenGL driver returned an error for some reason I could not figure, resulting in D2X not starting.

The most promising thing would be to set up a development environment on a PC having problems with D2X and debugging it there.

Well, I guess this was about 5 times more than you wanted to know.

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:08 pm

Heheh... this is another reason why open-source is so useful.

Except it does rely on the person experiencing the bug to be able to track it down and fix it, and most of them can't...

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:40 pm

all true

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:42 pm

/damn double post

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:47 pm

Dark Falcon wrote:
Garak wrote:You're welcome

Dark Falcon wrote:thanks
I take it the latest dsl helped/fixed your problem?
It gave me an error.

*sweat drop*

Dude, you realize that none of us can read your mind...right? We've got to know what the actual error message is, what hardware you're using, and what you've done to your system. Contrary to popular belief, we cannot pop out of your phone jack and push the magic button that solves all your computer problems.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:59 am

I think he believes a magic pokemon will fly out of his alss and solve all his problems. It's no wonder he'd believe we can too

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:19 am

You almost made me spill my coffee. That was funny.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:55 am

Maybe I should create an error message reading "*sweat drop*" ...

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:49 pm

Diedel wrote:Maybe I should create an error message reading "*sweat drop*" ...

Tack on an ID10T error while you're at it.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:23 am

Things are getting increasingly rough here ... which, so I'm afraid, will again inevitably lead to the kind of ... "discussion" ... that made me shun this forum for quite a while.

Please don't ruin this thread.

@Dark_Falcon,

please tell what error message you were given.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:24 pm

it gave me this:

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:37 pm

Which doesn't tell us anything. Next time it crashes, click on the link that would show what file it had a problem with.

Diedel: I see sarcasm isn't your strong suit.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:48 pm

What about this one:

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:06 pm

That technical information link would probably be of some use too.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:26 pm

*sigh*, is this it?:

Garak · Post by **Garak** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:46 pm

copy the text and paste it, so we can see it all

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:41 pm

It won't let me copy and paste the text.

Diedel · Post by **Diedel** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:05 am

MD-2389 wrote:Which doesn't tell us anything. Next time it crashes, click on the link that would show what file it had a problem with.

Diedel: I see sarcasm isn't your strong suit.

I'm not exactly sure that *you* know what sarcasm is.

I found your remark a little bit on the rude side.

@Dark_Falcon,

oopsy. I am afraid I cannot help you. This is a "hard" program crash, not D2X running into some assertion, displaying an error message and quitting halfway decently.

If however I am wrong and there *is* such a message, please write it down on some piece of paper and quote it here. The probability that I can help you in that case is very high.

You do not happen to live in Germany, do you?

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:23 pm

Diedel wrote:
MD-2389 wrote:Which doesn't tell us anything. Next time it crashes, click on the link that would show what file it had a problem with.

Diedel: I see sarcasm isn't your strong suit.
I'm not exactly sure that *you* know what sarcasm is. I found your remark a little bit on the rude side.

@Dark_Falcon,

oopsy. I am afraid I cannot help you. This is a "hard" program crash, not D2X running into some assertion, displaying an error message and quitting halfway decently. If however I am wrong and there *is* such a message, please write it down on some piece of paper and quote it here. The probability that I can help you in that case is very high.

You do not happen to live in Germany, do you?

I'm from America.

Okay, I give up!

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 5:49 pm

Have you tried using the 2.6 version of D2X?