Tremulous Forum
General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Mistah Thrax on December 23, 2008, 09:39:08 pm
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Yes I read the FAQ and I've already tried those solutions but just hear me out ok?
First of all I know why it happened, it's because I had a new monitor and was seeing which resolution looked the best. I thought to myself "ah screw it il see the highest resolution" and the second I did that I crashed and I recieved this subsystem error that shows up every time I run Tremulous.
Now theres a twist to this, IF I run it as an administrator...Tremulous works fine ??? but if I try to load one of the custom maps (the ones you download) it spits back a cannot load error (even though the map files are still in the Tremulous folder) no I don't crash here, I can keep playing on the standard maps.
Perhaps if theres a command to change the resolution in the console screen (the startup box) that might fix it, but I really am clueless.
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Heres logs for anyone whose tech saavy I'm running vista
------- Input Initialization -------
No window for DirectInput mouse init, delaying
Joystick is not active.
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----- Client Initialization -----
----- Initializing Renderer ----
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----- Client Initialization Complete -----
----- R_Init -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'C:\Windows\system32\opengl32.dll' ): succeeded
...setting mode 9: 1600 1200 FS
...using colorsbits of 32
...calling CDS: failed, bad mode
...trying next higher resolution: failed, bad mode
...restoring display settings
...registered window class
...created window@3,22 (1606x1226)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...GLW_ChoosePFD( 32, 24, 8 )
...101 PFDs found
...hardware acceleration found
...PIXELFORMAT 9 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded
...WARNING: fullscreen unavailable in this mode
...setting mode 9: 1600 1200 FS
...using colorsbits of 16
...calling CDS: failed, bad mode
...trying next higher resolution: failed, bad mode
...restoring display settings
...window already present, CreateWindowEx skipped
Initializing OpenGL driver
...WARNING: fullscreen unavailable in this mode
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL
...assuming '3dfxvgl' is a standalone driver
...initializing QGL
...WARNING: missing Glide installation, assuming no 3Dfx available
...shutting down QGL
----- CL_Shutdown -----
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
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GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem
I think thats the cause of the error, its too large for my monitor to handle I suppose
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If this isn't in the FAQ, it probably should be. Start Tremulous from the command line with something like
tremulous.exe +reset r_modeand it should start fine.
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The command line? whats that?
If you mean the startup console it's not letting me type anything.
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When you run as administrator is uses administrator's settings not yours, and that account has working settings.
Go to %APP DATA%/tremulous/base and find the file autogen.cfg, and remove the line that starts with r_mode
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Hold Control and hit the "R" key. Type in "cmd" and hit [Enter]. Type "cd C:\the\path\to\your\tremulous\program\" and then hit [Enter]. Type "tremulous.exe +reset r_mode" and hit [Enter]. That "cmd" program that you go into is the Windows command line.
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Thank you David that seems to let me launch it without needing the administrator access.
Einstein I know this is probably going to sound stupid but where do you mean for me to type that ;D
On a side note the downloaded maps still aren't working, but I'm sure you already knew that.
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I assume hitting Ctrl-R brings up the thing where you type it.
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Nothing happens in any part of tremulous and in the command prompt I get an arrow and R, which does nothing.
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The R part is to be used while STILL on the windows desktop.
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Hold Control and hit the "R" key
I assume hitting Ctrl-R brings up the thing where you type it.
That should be the windows key, not ctrl.
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Oh.
What the hell is the point of having a Windows key, anyway? Sheesh. ::)
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I think hes running linux thats why he said command line and also why that executable isn't turning on.
In other words- I'm running windows vista
as seen on the second post.
It's used to pop up the taskbar Syntac :P its an alternative to ctrl-alt-delete which can be quite nasty.
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windows has a command line. linux has a tty.
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Command prompt ;)
Anyways any idea on why the custom maps might not be functioning? I'm actually getting ubuntu tomorrow but I don't want to get it and still have this error. :-\
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It's used to pop up the taskbar Syntac :P its an alternative to ctrl-alt-delete which can be quite nasty.
Hey, I don't know anything about Windows. I'm trying not to contaminate my soul.
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Its fixed (well sort of) someone nice enough on Dretch Storm helped me out by reenabling my downloading. I can't seem to enable the maps already in base but its ok because with TF I can redownload in a few seconds. :)
Thanks to all who helped.
And all I had to do was type "/cl_allowdownloading 1" or something to that effect.
P.S. Add this to the FAQ to help any others out.
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Wow. Sorry for my misinformation, I must've been out of it when I typed that, I really did mean the Windows key, not Control. Oops. Anyways, glad you got it to work. For the record, I run Arch 32-bit and OpenSolaris in virtual machines on top of Ubuntu 64-bit, and I actually grew up on and have explored Windows (all versions up to Vista) extensively so I'm quite familiar with both Linux and Windows. I keep my Vista 32-bit for convenience's sake (and because one of my teachers requires me to compile and submit my assignments on Windows), which I dual-boot beside Ubuntu 8.10. I'm glad you figured everything out, in any case. :P
Edit: by the way, the Windows command prompt is the equivalent of the Linux terminal, both of which are interfaces to the command line, which under a *nix environment has multiple processes that each refer to at least one TTY. Windows+R is the shortcut that brings up the "run" dialog box in Windows. It's useful to know all of the keyboard shortcuts in whatever operating system you're on; here's a list straight from the resident authority (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449) on Microsoft's knowledge base. If you have a keyboard with a Windows key on it, you'll find the section of key combinations that use that very useful. It's actually very efficient in Windows especially to work without a mouse at all if you know these "hotkeys" and you can navigate very quickly in most popular operating systems by just using the keyboard.