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Grey Screen at startup

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Nix:
Let me start off with an apology.  I'm a programmer myself, and the fact that I have to post for help kills me.  I am an avid fan of X-Com UFO defense and play it to this day.  When I saw your project I got pretty excited about diving into it.

I am running a Pentium 4 with Windows XP.  Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum Pro and an ATI X800 Pro.  Everything has the latest drivers.  I installed from your Win32 install file. (RC4)

When I run the game, I get the grey screen (openGL initialization), however, before the game really loads it crashes out with an UFO.exe error.  The error details are no deeper than that.  I will put a copy of the console log the game creates below, but it doesn't list any errors at all.  I am 90% sure the problem is my fault somehow.



The Console Log:
Winsock Initialized
Console initialized.
------- Loading ref_gl.dll -------
ref_gl version: GL 0.12
Initializing OpenGL display
...setting mode 6: 1024 768 FS
...attempting fullscreen
...using desktop frequency: 75 hz
...using desktop display depth of 32
...calling CDS: ok
GL PFD: color(32-bits) Z(24-bit)
Desktop resolution: 1024:768
GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER: RADEON X800 XL x86/SSE2
GL_VERSION: 2.0.6012 WinXP Release
GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_S3_s3tc GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shadow_ambient GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_blend GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_element_array GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap GL_ATI_fragment_shader GL_ATI_map_object_buffer GL_ATI_separate_stencil GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_ATI_vertex_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_streams GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATIX_texture_env_route GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texgen_reflection GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_shader GL_HP_occlusion_test GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_SGI_color_matrix GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays GL_WIN_swap_hint WGL_EXT_extensions_string WGL_EXT_swap_control
...enabling GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
...enabling WGL_EXT_swap_control
...using GL_EXT_point_parameters
...using GL_ARB_multitexture
...using GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
...GL_SGIS_multitexture deprecated in favor of ARB_multitexture
...ignoring GL_ARB_texture_compression
...using GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic [16 max] [ 1 selected]
...using GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
...using GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
...using GL_EXT_fog_coord
...using GL_ARB_fragment_program
...using GL_ATI_separate_stencil
...max texture size:
......detected 2048
...SDL_ttf inited
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Nix:
Hm, I got it to work once by attempting to enter console while the grey screen was still up.  Game loaded, and once it had loaded everthing worked fine.

Unfortunatly, I can't get it to load again.  It is once again just giving me a grey screen and crashing.  What could cause it to load fine once, and then never again?

HaJo:

--- Quote from: "Nix" ---When I run the game, I get the grey screen (openGL initialization),
however, before the game really loads it crashes
--- End quote ---

This looks just like http://ufo.myexp.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=481 "At startup"

To get a more verbose logfile, you can run with "set developer 1".

Nix:
Situation resolved.

No idea what caused it or even what fixed it, but it seems to be working fine now.

Bandobras:
Could you move your base/config.cfg to a safe place and try starting and playing the game? Then copy the config.cfg from the RC4 installer and try again, please. You can always come back to your saved config.cfg and hope it will work again. ;)

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