RC4-error

[FlaewHen]

Hi people,

I encountered the following error with RC4;
Few seconds after the mission screen loads (you know, the tactical map where I can move my soldiers:P) the game crashes and I get a message :
'...could not generate font surface'  

Any ideas what's wrong and how to correct it? I'd like to finally play this game a bit:]

[Bandobras]

OS? Any other info?

[FlaewHen]

Wanna PC specification? Here it is:
OS Win XP
Athlon 1.0
Radeon 9550
Sound integrated on mainboard (Asrock mainboard)
256 MB RAM

Did I forget about something?

[Bandobras]

Last messages from base/ufoconsole.log?

Try to update your video drivers.

[FlaewHen]

There's something like this:

==== InitGame ====
------- Server Initialization -------
Created AI player (team 0)
Created AI player (team 7)
-------------------------------------
loopback: client_connect




farm08n
CL_Precache_f
LoadMap
Map: farm08n
                                     
pics
                                     
civilians/male/body01
                                     
civilians/male/head01
                                     
civilians/female/body01
                                     
civilians/female/head02b
                                     
civilians/female/head02a
                                     
aliens/blue/body01
                                     
aliens/blue/head01
                                     
images
                                     
begin
You are already on team 1
Cottard has taken control over team 1.
(player 0) It's team 1's round
Text has zero width (f_small)
==== ShutdownGame ====
SDL audio device shut down.


These are the last lines in my ufoconsole.log

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I've just installed the newest drivers for my radeon 9550 ( Catalyst 6.8 ) and the error still occurs the same way:/
Help me somehow, please.

[Bandobras]

> Text has zero width (f_small)

Now, this is something... Ideas, anybody?

Have you got any other version of SDL_ttf.dll on your system than the one in contrib directory of UFO:AI source? (Just guessing, because I don't have Windows, but fame of the DLL-hell reaches even to the Linux world...)

[FlaewHen]

I have only one file of that name (SDL_ttf.dll) and it is located in the main UFO:AI directory.

Hope someone will find some kind of solution to my problem; the game is awesome and I wanna play it!:]

[Bandobras]

One more questions: what do the other lines with f_small in them say in the ufoconsole.log?

[FlaewHen]

There is not a single line other than the one you know of with 'f_small' in ufoconsole.log...

[Bandobras]

Ha. That might be the problem. I have (on Linux):

...found font f_small (1)
FindFile: ./base/media/DejaVuSans.ttf
FindFile: ./base/media/DejaVuSans.ttf

in ufoconsole.log

I wonder where the font files are in your install...

Any other "found font" in your log?

[FlaewHen]

Nope, I don't see anything like 'found font' in my ufoconsole.log. But i do have the file 'DejaVuSans.ttf' in the same place as you...

[Bandobras]

Oh, I've forgotten, I run ./ufo +set developer 1. This may be why your log is smaller. Can you try with that?

[FlaewHen]

Do I have to reinstall the game?

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I've just reinstalled the game and added the sourcecode as well as the other thing (mapping tools ?). Still the same error:/

Or perhaps you're talking about something diffrent? Tell me, I'll try everything I can to run this game:]

[Mattn]

you have to edit your shortcut for ufo:ai and add right after ufo.exe the stuff Bandobras mentioned above (+set developer 1)

Commandline should look like this:
"c:\Program Files\UFO:AI\ufo.exe" +set developer 1

[FlaewHen]

Thx Mattn, I added the thing to the command line of the shortcut but the error still remains.