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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: lego6245 on August 13, 2008, 07:06:30 pm

Title: Game Crashes when starting
Post by: lego6245 on August 13, 2008, 07:06:30 pm

Hello!
My game (on ubuntu linux), crashes when it starts to load. The screen goes black for a second, then shrinks, then disappears, leaving me at my desktop. Any help would be great, and a fast answer even more so.

Thanks,
William

Title: Re: Game Crashes when starting
Post by: David on August 13, 2008, 08:30:20 pm

Run it from a terminal and paste the error here.

Title: Re: Game Crashes when starting
Post by: lego6245 on August 14, 2008, 12:00:42 am

Error is as follows
SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
SDL_SetVideoMode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual
Using 8/8/8 Color bits, 16 depth, 8 stencil display.
GL_RENDERER: Mesa GLX Indirect


***********************************************************
 You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)!   
 Driver DLL used: libGL.so.1
 If this is intentional, add
       "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1"
 to the command line when starting the game.
***********************************************************
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  136 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  10 (XF86VidModeSwitchToMode)
  Value in failed request:  0x440000d
  Serial number of failed request:  184
  Current serial number in output stream:  186

Title: Re: Game Crashes when starting
Post by: Taiyo.uk on August 14, 2008, 12:09:18 am

As the error message says, you are attempting to use software GL. This means that you do not have the drivers installed for your video card. You can probably install them via the restricted drivers manager if you have an ATI or NVidia card. Otherwise you'll need to download them from www.nvidia.com or www.ati.com