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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: DanielIIbos on November 14, 2008, 11:44:03 pm

Title: Tremulous not starting
Post by: DanielIIbos on November 14, 2008, 11:44:03 pm
 Tremulous was my favorite game until it stopped working. When I open it, it looks like its going to work just fine but it never get to the menu, it just stays a black screen and I have to press ctr-alt-delete. THEN a window pops up that says (tremulou has stopped working). Ugghh
What can I do to fix it?
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: Syntac on November 15, 2008, 12:44:07 am
Have you been changing any settings recently?
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: jackForward on November 15, 2008, 02:03:16 am
Run tremulous in a console (DOS prompt in windows?) and post the output here.
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: Lito on November 16, 2008, 05:56:33 pm
I have the very same problem.

I tried in the DOS thing and it doesn't work either.

C:\ (........................................)
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2080 files in pk3 files
execing default.cfg
Couldn't exec autogen.cfg
Couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Hunk_clear: reset the hunk ok
...detecting CPu, found generic
-------------Input Initialization-------------
No window for DirectInput mouse init, delaying
Joystick is not active
----------------------------------------------
(Something about "client" and "initializing" goes here)              <------- It ends here.
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: Death On Ice on November 18, 2008, 03:30:44 am
Couldn't exec autogen.cfg
Couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Check your data-1.1.0.pk3.
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: benmachine on November 20, 2008, 11:14:55 pm
Couldn't exec autogen.cfg
Couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
Check your data-1.1.0.pk3.

No, don't :P well you can, but there's no reason to expect either of those files to exist if this is the first time you've run tremulous. If it isn't then you can wonder about a permissions issue, but I doubt that's the problem.
default.cfg is in data-1.1.0.pk3 and that's being executed fine. We need the whole log though, including whatever it was about client and initialising (I can guess, but I'm surprised if that's the last line). You could also try starting with +set developer 1 or +set fs_debug 1 (or both) to get more messages about how things are going printed.
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: cactusfrog on December 13, 2008, 08:46:43 am
you might have messed with your graphic settings or some other settitng you can reset everything back to default by deleting your autogen or renaming it. Renaming it is better becasue you will always have it but tremulous will not do anything with it and if you want to start using it again you can always just rerename it to autogen.   
if you are using windows xp without GUID go to c:\program files\tremulous\base and look for the autogen there
if you are using the tjw client go to C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Tremulous\base
if you are using the mercenary guild client go to C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\Application Data\Tremulous\base
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: Dragoxz on December 13, 2008, 01:00:23 pm
Have you tried reinstalling it?
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: David on December 13, 2008, 01:16:48 pm
Wow.  Way to give dud advice.
cactusfrog: read his post, he has no autogen or autoexec.
Dragoxz: that never solves anything, ever.
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: Yarou on December 13, 2008, 06:22:29 pm
OS, 32-bit or 64-bit, what client are you using and what drivers do you have installed?
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: StevenM on December 13, 2008, 08:42:56 pm
usually an autogen rename/deletion solves the problem :s
Title: Re: Tremulous not starting
Post by: Caveman on December 16, 2008, 12:43:51 am
And pasting the complete error-message helps wonders, too.