Armagetron Advanced 2.7.1 Crashing Immediately

Visaoni · Post by **Visaoni** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:45 am

I'm running OSX 10.3.9 and both 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 crash as soon as I open them... It will show up on the dock for a second and then it will crash without doing anything else. Any ideas here?

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Post by **dlh** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:31 pm

Are you an administrator? Armagetron 2.7.1 and below need you to be an admin to run the game, in the upcoming version (2.8.0) this is fixed.

Visaoni · Post by **Visaoni** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:36 pm

Yep I'm the admin. Don't have any other added accounts on here either...

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Post by **dlh** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:38 pm

Open up the console application (/Application/Utilities/Console.app) and see if there is any thing concerning Armagetron in it.

Visaoni · Post by **Visaoni** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:42 pm

Ok this is what it shows.

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Armagetron[5284] can't make directory /Library/Application Support/Armagetron
Error in int SDL_main(int, char**) in ../src/tron/gArmagetron.cpp:376 : 
 	var directory not writable or does not exist. Don't start Armagetron directly, use the wrapper script in /usr/local/bin.

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Post by **dlh** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:52 pm

That usually means you don't have write permission in /Library. Check this site, I am uploading a Mac OS X version now that will fix your problem.

Post by **dlh** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:18 pm

OK, its uploaded. Try out that version, it should work.

Visaoni · Post by **Visaoni** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:19 pm

Heh, thanks. I fixed it myself a simpler way... Just changed the permissions on /Library/Application Support because my /Library was already okay permissionwise.

Definetly will try out the other version, even though the permissions don't matter that much it's generally better to leave things as they are.

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Visaoni · Post by **Visaoni** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:31 pm

Well... all of what I'm presuming to be options are just white boxes that I can turn red one at a time (as if it was a menu which I'm guessing it is) but can't see any of the text... I'll just use the fix I mentioned before, no sweat.

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Post by **dlh** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:22 pm

Visaoni wrote:Well... all of what I'm presuming to be options are just white boxes that I can turn red one at a time (as if it was a menu which I'm guessing it is) but can't see any of the text... I'll just use the fix I mentioned before, no sweat.

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hmm, there seems to a problem loading the textures on 10.3. I got that too on the first run, second run the font textures loaded. But then ingame the wall textures were having trouble loading, but that oddly stopped after I turned on line anti-aliasing.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:58 pm

The "No Font on first load" problem was caused by my texture refactoring last week; apparently, the font got loaded before default options were determined, and the pre-default settings say "no texturing at all". It should be fixed now, sorry.