After working once, unv now crashes on startup

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killing time
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After working once, unv now crashes on startup

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The challenges in getting this month's release to run have been more vexing than average. I'm running Windows 7. A few days ago, I tried both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of a22.1. They both ran (though with quite poor functioning). Now they both crash immediately upon launching. There are a couple of other threads mentioning this problem but no one seems to have solved it.
Here is a log file, which cuts off mid-line.

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Unvanquished 0.22.1 Windows x86 Dec  3 2013
+set cl_renderer GL3,GL 
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\map-Eden-b3.pk3 ( 111 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\navmesh-0.22.0.pk3 ( 177 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak0.pk3 ( 1590 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak1.pk3 ( 981 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak2.pk3 ( 166 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak3.pk3 ( 117 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak4.pk3 ( 148 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak5.pk3 ( 143 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak6.pk3 ( 148 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak7.pk3 ( 268 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak8.pk3 ( 132 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pak9.pk3 ( 122 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakA.pk3 ( 31 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakB.pk3 ( 226 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakC.pk3 ( 19 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakD.pk3 ( 140 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakE.pk3 ( 20 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakF.pk3 ( 70 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakG.pk3 ( 227 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakH.pk3 ( 185 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakI.pk3 ( 125 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakJ.pk3 ( 180 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakK.pk3 ( 300 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\pakL.pk3 ( 30 files )
    pk3: C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished\main\vms-0.22.1.pk3 ( 3 files )
FS_AddGameDirectory("C:\Program Files (x86)\Unvanquished", "main") found 25 .pk3 and 0 .pk3dir
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-arachnid2-gpp.pk3 ( 67 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-atcshd-gpp2.pk3 ( 91 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-atcszalpha-b2.pk3 ( 50 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-bluedragon2_b3.pk3 ( 154 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-citadel.pk3 ( 143 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-cruz-b6.pk3 ( 130 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-Eden-b3.pk3 ( 111 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-karith-gpp.pk3 ( 118 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-methane-beta1.pk3 ( 196 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-nano.pk3 ( 108 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-nexus6-gpp.pk3 ( 151 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-niveus-gpp.pk3 ( 134 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-orion-beta2.pk3 ( 101 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-parpax-b03h.pk3 ( 211 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-parpax-b04.pk3 ( 216 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-parpax-d02.pk3 ( 391 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-perseus-b3.pk3 ( 94 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-plat23-b6.pk3 ( 75 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-plat23-b6.navmesh.pk3 ( 12 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-plat23-b7.pk3 ( 136 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-plat23-b9.pk3 ( 126 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-plat23-b10.pk3 ( 124 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-procyon-r1.pk3 ( 108 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\killingtime\AppData\Roaming\Daemon\main\map-pulse-beta3-1.1.0.pk3 ( 198 files )
    pk3: C:\Users\ki
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Cajunfiend
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Re: After working once, unv now crashes on startup

Post by Cajunfiend »

Is it still doing this?

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killing time
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Re: After working once, unv now crashes on startup

Post by killing time »

There was some thread which had a fix involving disabling OpenAL. This avoided the crash on startup, although unv was still not very usable due to FPS issues.

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Re: After working once, unv now crashes on startup

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If you are having performance issues on windows using Alpha 22.1, start the executable with

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+nocurses

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