black screen

[Gwai]

Unfortunately beta5 is not working for me. It works fine for my husband, but on my PC (running vista) it does not. I'm getting a black screen where the map should be. If I go up to the world map, it is the same. Getting the green square around my character that always appears in tactical mode, but otherwise just black. Ack!

[Gwai]

It also won't load saved games for me black screen or not.

[darkgod]

Savefile compat breaks each beta usually.

As for the black screen .. hum anything in the log ?
What platform ?

[mirrizin]

And FWIW, I tried to load a saved game on my computer, and it hung, though mine runs okay from a new game.

[darkgod]

A savefile from beta4?

[mirrizin]

A beta5 savefile

[Gwai]

Log includes the following. I can paste more of it if that would be helpful, but this likes the most interesting part since it includes errors.


[MODULE LOADER] loading module Tales of Middle Earth: The Fourth Age [mod.load] :: nil nil
67 frames in 11.205 seconds = 5.97947 FPS
Lua Error: /engine/Actor.lua:50: bad argument #1 to 'setmetatable' (table expected, got nil)
At [C]:-1
At [C]:-1 setmetatable
At /engine/Actor.lua:50 loaded
At /engine/class.lua:233 load
At /engine/Savefile.lua:219 loadObject
At [string "data = {}..."]:163 deserialize
At /engine/class.lua:224 load
At /engine/Savefile.lua:219 loadObject
At [string "data = {}..."]:3 deserialize
At /engine/class.lua:224 load
At /engine/Savefile.lua:219 loadObject
At [string "data = {}..."]:11 deserialize
At /engine/class.lua:224 load
At /engine/Savefile.lua:219 loadReal
At /engine/Savefile.lua:263 loadGame
At /special/mainmenu/class/Game.lua:246 fct
At /engine/ButtonList.lua:120 click
At /engine/ButtonList.lua:83 ?
At /engine/KeyBind.lua:198
44 ticks in 11.339 seconds = 3.88041 TPS
331 frames in 10.001 seconds = 33.0967 FPS
333 frames in 10.023 seconds = 33.2236 FPS
1 ticks in 23.701 seconds = 0.0421923 TPS
SDL Activity 1

[darkgod]

Gwai: beta5 savefile ?


Try this exe for the black screen issue:
http://te4.org/dl/t-engine-nofancy.exe

[Gwai]

Should be yes. But since I messed around with a couple things, below is the stdout error from another test with a beta5 savefile.

Thanks for the simplified beta5. That works. Nice to be able to play it!

[MODULE LOADER] loading module Tales of Middle Earth: The Fourth Age [mod.load] :: nil nil
C Map size 18:14 :: 252
Loading tile terrain/grass.png
Loading tile terrain/tree.png
Loading tile terrain/grass_flower3.png
Lua Error: /mod/class/Actor.lua attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'turn' (a nil value)
At [C]:-1
At /mod/class/Actor.lua:1022 canSee
At /engine/Map.lua:372 updateMap
At /engine/Map.lua:316 redisplay
At /engine/Map.lua:300 loaded
At /engine/Savefile.lua:268 loadGame
At /special/mainmenu/class/Game.lua:246 fct
At /engine/ButtonList.lua:120 click
At /engine/ButtonList.lua:83 ?
At /engine/KeyBind.lua:198
SDL Activity 0
SDL Activity 1
4 ticks in 56.456 seconds = 0.0708516 TPS
101 frames in 58.327 seconds = 1.73162 FPS
SDL Activity 1
SDL Activity 1
SDL A

[darkgod]

Weird very weird.
What do you do exactly ?
Make a new game, save it load it ?

As for the map display try also:
http://te4.org/dl/t-engine-noshader.exe
http://te4.org/dl/t-engine-singletexture.exe

And tell me which of them works?
What's your graphic card ?

[Susramanian]

I'm having the game-loading problem too. Totally unable to load any saved game in beta 5. It just hangs and I have to quit out. I'm not trying to import old save files or anything weird. I always start new characters for new betas.

[Gwai]

re your question about what I do exactly yes, that is exactly what I did. I was wondering if saving would make the black screen problem end, so I tested it and of course it didn't but then I found I couldn't even load the saved game. Re the files you told me to try, neither worked for me.

I think I have an on-board card. It calls itself Intel Express G45/G43 chipset

[darkgod]

Ah thanks!
So this means your card does not do framebuffer obejcts, sorry no shadowed ASCII letetrs for you :/
Now it should detect them correctly though and auto disable them.

[Shoob]

here is my lua error for my loading problem.

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Lua Error: /mod/class/Actor.lua:965: attempt to compare nil with number
	At [C]:-1 
	At /mod/class/Actor.lua:965 canSee
	At /engine/Map.lua:372 updateMap
	At /engine/Map.lua:316 redisplay
	At /engine/Map.lua:300 loaded
	At /engine/Savefile.lua:268 loadGame
	At /special/mainmenu/class/Game.lua:246 fct
	At /engine/ButtonList.lua:120 click
	At /engine/ButtonList.lua:57 fct
	At /engine/M

[Antagonist]

If possible, try and download glew from http://glew.sourceforge.net/ and running the glewinfo.exe.

It will generate a text file with all of the supported OpenGL that your GPU supports. Sending that text file to me or DG will help alot to debug stuff like this.

As for the non-windows users, I only see a source download. Would still be useful if you could compile and send that text file tho.