Author Topic: White Screen Windowed Mode Problems  (Read 1963 times)

MiniWheatz

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White Screen Windowed Mode Problems
« on: August 30, 2010, 03:33:53 am »
Hey everybody!  So who's up for some troubleshooting...

My friend is trying to install Tremulous on his Macbook Pro.  He has successfully installed Tremulous, played Tremulous, and had admin responsibilities on several Tremulous servers before, so I know that his game is capable of working just fine.

He uninstalled briefly, to take a break, and a few days ago tried to reinstall and start up the game again.  To "uninstall", he deleted both the Tremulous application itself and also the Tremulous folder inside:

Users > Library > Application Support

which contained the "base" folder and qkey.  The only problem is now when he tries to boot up the game, it will open perfectly normally in fullscreen, but whenever he tries to change it to windowed mode (any resolution), the screen turns completely white and he has to force quit.  We tried starting up and changing the resolution before setting windowed mode, and vice versa.

At this point, I believe it may be linked to a previous HUD installed on his computer.  I believe this was Oticz, as that's what I had before.  Naturally, there isn't a trace of a HUD on his computer anymore, let alone anything Tremulous related (besides the recent install).  ::)


Anybody experienced this problem before, or have any idea what it could be?  I'm sorry that I can't provide any more detailed information - not only do I not have access to the computer, but when the screen blanks out you cannot see any code whatsoever.

Thanks for your help!

UniqPhoeniX

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Re: White Screen Windowed Mode Problems
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2010, 05:08:09 am »
Check fs_basepath and fs_homepath to see which folders Trem uses, and make sure there are no old autogen.cfg files in those. If it was oticz hud, you may just be able to use '/exec ui/oticz_uninstall'.
Starting Tremulous from console/terminal/whateveritisonamac should give more useful information if that's needed.

jez

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Re: White Screen Windowed Mode Problems
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2010, 02:13:37 pm »
Probbaly won't solve your problem, but when I start trem on my macbook in windowed mode it often does the same blank white screen thing. Switching spaces away and back again seems to force it to repaint, and everything is fine from there.

Same thing occasionally happens with Urban terror, which uses the same ioQ3 engine.

OSX 10.6.4, intel GMA X3100, default gpp build, no hud.