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Offline Lost Angel

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main menu not showing
« on: February 15, 2012, 06:42:23 pm »
using muton's builds with auto-update feature.
used to work, but I haven't been touching the game in a few months, and then only used auto-updater.
now when I start it - I get the loading indicator, and the progress bar runs till completion.
when this is done - I only see the chrosshair cursor, but no main menu. I can, however, summon help menu with alt+f4 for example.
I'm on the latest build with autoupdater.
win 7 64, nvidia gt8800, latest beta drivers. no other game or app shows any problems. (yes I do realize if I'm on beta I shouldn't even report).

Any clues? if you need a log of any kind - let me know which one - I'll attach.

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Re: main menu not showing
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2012, 11:15:08 pm »
You should provide logs:
~/.ufoai/base/ufoconsole.log
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Bugs

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Re: main menu not showing
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2012, 11:53:52 pm »

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Re: main menu not showing
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2012, 09:15:45 am »
It looks like there is an alias in the config file missing. there should be an init alias - which you don't have. please check your installation.

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Re: main menu not showing
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2012, 10:48:11 am »
Any way to correct this without re-installing? Say could someone provide a functional config? I thought this might be the case, by the way, so at some point I deleted the config completely - it was recreated automatically.
http://pastebin.com/K5Pw6isA <= current config
« Last Edit: February 17, 2012, 10:52:24 am by Lost Angel »

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Re: main menu not showing
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2012, 03:12:30 pm »
it's not config.cfg but default.cfg- this file is in your checkout (not your home) in the base/ dir with this content:

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//
// INIT STUFF
//
alias initmainui "ui_initstack main;"
alias   init    "initmainui;"

//
// newgame command
//
alias newgame "killserver;maxclients 1;"

//
// ufo +set dedicated 1 or ufoded
// will run this command if no other +map is included
//
alias dedicated_start "exec dedicated.cfg;"

alias saveconfigcfg "saveconfig config.cfg;"

only replacing or adding this file should not really help - because i think if this file is missing, there might be others.

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Re: main menu not showing
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2012, 03:19:10 pm »
created the said file in the folder you indicated - now all works fine, thanks. no idea how it could've disappeared from there originally.