: Pi Armada startig with black screen and music only

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: Pi Armada startig with black screen and music only

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I just see a black screen when I double click the vegastrike.exe icon in the /bin folder. The keyboard does not respond and I eventually have to press the power button on my windows pc to get it started again. Any idea what the problem might be?

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Welcome Shaba1 have a look in that bin folder there should be two text file stdout.txt and stderr.txt could you post them that should allow me to figure out what is happening and make sure that your video drivers are the latest that seems to be the most common reason for non starting but a hard lock is kinda extreme :cry: after that we will have to wait on legine this projects lead for PiArmada specific questions.

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loki1950 wrote:Welcome Shaba1 have a look in that bin folder there should be two text file stdout.txt and stderr.txt could you post them that should allow me to figure out what is happening and make sure that your video drivers are the latest that seems to be the most common reason for non starting but a hard lock is kinda extreme :cry: after that we will have to wait on legine this projects lead for PiArmada specific questions.

Enjoy the Choice :)
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Windows version 5 1
Vega Strike  
See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for license details.

Using .pu as the home directory
Found MODDIR = C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers/mods
DATADIR - No datadir specified in config file, using ; C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers
SIMULATION_ATOM: 0.06
['C:\\PYTHON25', 'C:\\PYTHON25\\DLLS', 'C:\\PYTHON25\\LIB', 'C:\\PYTHON25\\LIB\\LIB-TK', 'C:\\PYTHON24', 'C:\\PYTHON24\\DLLS', 'C:\\PYTHON24\\LIB', 'C:\\PYTHON24\\LIB\\LIB-TK', 'C:\\PYTHON22', 'C:\\PYTHON22\\DLLS', 'C:\\PYTHON22\\LIB', 'C:\\PYTHON22\\LIB\\LIB-TK', 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\Desktop\\7zip\\Parallel Univers\\bin\\python25.zip', 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\Desktop\\7zip\\Parallel Univers', 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\Desktop\\7zip\\Parallel Univers\\bin', 'c:\\Panda3D-1.5.0', 'C:\\Panda3D-1.5.0\\bin', 'c:\\Panda3D-1.5.0\\sceneEditor', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.8-msw-unicode']
['C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\Desktop\\7zip\\Parallel Univers\\modules\\builtin', 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\Desktop\\7zip\\Parallel Univers\\modules', 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\Desktop\\7zip\\Parallel Univers\\bases']
Setting Screen to w 1280 h 1024 and pitch of 5120 and 32 bpp 4 bytes per pix mode
0 joysticks were found.

The names of the joysticks are:
FactionXML:LoadXML factions.xml
Compiling python module modules/dj.py
SITUATION IS 1 force change 1 bool 1
SITUATION IS RESET TO 1
Ppeace
Contents of star system:
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</system>


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Hi helper play 0
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pox 119990000000.000000 -9000000.000000 -109990000000.000000
done loading rand enc
Purging...
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removing quest
init random enc
end random enc
Force feedback support disabled when compiled
Loading completed, now network init
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GOT SUBDIR ARG = 
Found data in ..
Using C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers as data directory
USING HOMEDIR : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers/.pu As the home directory 
CONFIGFILE - No config found in home : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers/.pu/vegastrike.config
CONFIGFILE - No home config file found, using datadir config file : C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers/vegastrike.config
MISSION_NAME is empty using : main_menu.mission
running import sys
print sys.path
sys.path = [r"C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers\modules\builtin",r"C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers\modules",r"C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\7zip\Parallel Univers\bases"]
testing VS randomrunning import sys
print sys.path
OpenGL Extensions supported: GL_ARB_color_buffer_float GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100 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_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_S3_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_Cg_shader GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_two_side GL_EXT_stencil_wrap 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 GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_sRGB GL_EXT_timer_query GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_copy_depth_to_color GL_NV_depth_clamp GL_NV_fence GL_NV_float_buffer GL_NV_fog_distance GL_NV_fragment_program GL_NV_fragment_program_option GL_NV_fragment_program2 GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_coverage GL_NV_half_float GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_pixel_data_range GL_NV_point_sprite GL_NV_primitive_restart GL_NV_register_combiners GL_NV_register_combiners2 GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 GL_NV_texture_expand_normal GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_texture_shader GL_NV_texture_shader2 GL_NV_texture_shader3 GL_NV_vertex_array_range GL_NV_vertex_array_range2 GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 GL_NV_vertex_program2 GL_NV_vertex_program2_option GL_NV_vertex_program3 GL_NVX_conditional_render GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIX_depth_texture GL_SGIX_shadow GL_SUN_slice_accum GL_WIN_swap_hint WGL_EXT_swap_control 
OpenGL::GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array unsupported
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OpenGL::S3TC Texture Clamp-to-Border supported
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Min (0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000) Max(0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000) MinLumin 1.000000, MaxLumin 1.000000Read In Star Count 0 used: 1000
Min (0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000) Max(0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000) MinLumin 1.000000, MaxLumin 1.000000Read In Star Count 0 used: 90
Loading a starsystem
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MISSION_NAME is empty using : main_menu.mission 
That may be the problem but i don't know how legine has this set up as this is for the current version of the Vegastrike engine and as far as i know piArmada still uses the 0.4.3 binaries so that is a mismatch which would indeed cause problems :(

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Re: : Pi Armada startig with black screen and music only

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Thanks loki for trying. Do you have any idea how I can correct it? Do you have any idea when legine will be back?
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Re: : Pi Armada startig with black screen and music only

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bump!!!
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Yeah the one time I got PiArmada to run it was really fun. It would be a cool project to get working again.

Have you gotten vega strike to run by itself? What if you make it 32-bit Windowed mode using vssetup? You should not ever have to hard reset your computer.
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I will look into this tonight. I hope I have some answers soonish.

For proceedings. I still fight a hard battle with 10 Year old code. It puts up a strong fight. But I am on it. No status change thought. My work is also demanding one. :(
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Oki now at home and read your thingy more closely (after downloading and testing the game myself just to be sure.

Well dont start Vegastrike, There should be a bat file armada.bat or head to "wherever you put the game"\armada\strategic\dist
And klick the armada.exe
And the game will should start. If there comes an error it will be in the armada.exe.log.

Graphix have to be adjusted if needed in the settings.xml file. Just post if you need help I try to answer. :-)
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Glad to see you active legine :D and also glad you turned on post notification :wink: should help me not making stabs in the dark for solutions :lol:

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