Game crashing help?

harrydance · Post by **harrydance** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:03 pm

Hi, I recently installed the game and have tried playing, but when I start it up, it will run for about 30 seconds before completely dying

Everything freezes and then after a couple of seconds my whole monitor goes black and I can't do anything at all without restarting the PC

I've had a quick look through the topics here, but couldn't find anything the same

Also I should mention I'm using XP Media Center Edition on a PC that should be capable of running this easy, and version 2.8.2 of armagetron

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks

harrydance · Post by **harrydance** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:25 pm

Okay, I've installed 0.3.0 instead now, worked okay while i was browsing menus, and fiddling with the setup, then went to start a game and boom, crashed again

Anyone please help me?

I've managed to get this to work on the computers at my college, I don't understand why it can't run at home, on a better computer

EDIT:

The people on IRC said I should do a directx diagnostic to get you all the information needed so I've attached it as a .txt

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:11 am

have you tried in in a non full screen mode?

it could be your video card drivers?

Edit:
this is a newer driver for your card you are running version 6.14.0010.6677 and the current one is 7.5
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeonx-xp.html

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:02 am

harrydance wrote:Okay, I've installed 0.3.0 instead now, worked okay while i was browsing menus, and fiddling with the setup,

1. Find the location of all setup files, probably through the wiki
2. Uninstall the game
3. Remove all remaining configuration files
4. Re-install the game
5. DONT DO ANY SETUP FIDDLING, just try and start a local game

It is a wild shot that your setup fiddling is the cause of the problem, but it is always a safe bet to try first with all the default values.

Hope it is of some help

-ph

harrydance · Post by **harrydance** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:04 pm

Okay, I did completely uninstalled it, installed the new video card driver, rebooted, reinstalled and this time, it seems to be working perfectly!

Thanks for all the advice

harrydance · Post by **harrydance** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:16 pm

Okay sorry to bother again, but it broke again and went back to the same error

However, I've discovered the problem is probably not with this game, I've tried playing half life 2 and battlefield 2 recently and both hav had an almost identical problem

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:50 am

It may be a hardware problem, most likely an overheating CPU or GPU. If you are overclocking anything, stop it. Check that your fans work properly (dust them off a bit, it helps). If you have a software that measures the temperature of your components, use it while playing games in windowed mode. You can also try to underclock your hardware, that sometimes helps.

O---> · Post by **O--->** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:45 pm

i have 2.8 version and when am downloading map to cache from server arma allways crash. i tried it also without firewall and there was same crash

Post by **epsy** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:28 pm

on what server did you got that ?

O---> · Post by **O--->** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:18 pm

this screen is from wild west ctf but this game crash also on other servers when is downloading map

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:59 pm

That's not a crash, it's an error message that means what it says: the server configuration looks broken. The map it is referring to exists in neither of the two given locations.

Post by **epsy** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:42 am

z-man wrote:The map it is referring to exists in neither of the two given locations.

http://w6bw.org/public/user003/tron/ctf ... .aamap.xml
it exists...
but if i look closer to the error message i see this:

Code: Select all

ERROR: ctxt is NULL

obscure error message to me, can't get further sorry

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:08 am

I haven't actually checked it, but ctxt is probably the XML parser context. NULL it means it doesn't exist (most likely there was a problem before/during creation). That's about as specific as it gets without more information.

Actually it loaded just fine here in 0.2.8.2.1. I got a slightly elongated standard arena.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:59 am

when you go back in there does it continue to do that?

check your Application data there could be a possibility that you have the map but it is corrupt? i think c:/users/<you>/application data(this is hidden by default)/armagetronad/include/

look in /your_mom/clever/
for
ctf-sty-0.0.2.aamap.xml

if it exists delete it else try downloading http://w6bw.org/public/user003/tron/ctf ... .aamap.xml that to this folder.

that is all i can think of. else try reinstalling your client. but if it has worked before for you then it should be fine

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:17 am

O---> wrote:i have 2.8 version and when am downloading map to cache from server arma allways crash. i tried it also without firewall and there was same crash

The usual question:
what is the exact version of the game
what is the exact version of your OS
did you compile it yourself?
if you downloaded the game, where from?
Have you tried re-installing the game
Have you tried removing the game, and then re-installing it?
Have you tried removing the game, removing all the files left, such as map and configuration, and then re-installing it?
Was the game working before?
Did you install something on your computer just about the same time the game stopped working?

I've looked in the code, but cannot center the problem accurately. It seems somehow your libxml2, the library that we use to parse xml files (the map), either is broken, abscent or stumble upon an error. Or such is my current hypothesis.

-ph

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