Hum... how I can title this topic... HELP!

#1 (Nicolas Quijano hangs out a lot and knows french well; he might be useful to you.)

What video card do you have? What version of windows?

#2 Great to know that a french speaker is round there :) thank you for being there to help me
video card = Abit siluro T400 (Gforce2 MX -64mb)
current display mode = 1280x1024 - 32bits
os= W2000 sp4
DirectX 8.1

need to update my Nvidia drivers?

#3 Won't hurt to try.

#4 Obvious! thanks. I'll make the update tonight. to be continued...

#5 Do you see any loading errors in console.log?

#6 Well... here we go. these are the results of my experiments!

1) video card drivers updating = no change, the app is crashing
2) when I run torqueDemo with the -console argument (both tried with -opengl, -directX and -autoVideo arguments), I have the following interesting messages:

: Unable to find function resetCanvas

missing files:
common/defaults.cs
fps/client/prefs.cs
fps/server/prefs.cs

openGl disabled extensions:
3DFX_textures_compression_FXT1
NPatch tesselation

When I execute the program from MSV (win32 debug), I have the following mssg:
unhandled exception in torqueDemo_DEBUG.exe (WRAP_OAL.dll): OxCOOOOOO5: access violation

I got also:
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\ntdll.dll', no matching symbolic information found
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\USER32.dll', no matching symbolic information found
Loaded 'C:\WINNT\system32\KERNELL32.dll', no matching symbolic information found
etc, etc...

After compiling the demo, I got 0 error and 11 warnings.
C4018 (in zlib and ljpg)
C4018 + C4101 (in lungif)

when I run the torqueDemo, there is a problem with the mouse cursor. When I go outside the test application window, the cursor is sticked on the border. When I place my cursor back into the torque window, the cursor is working correctly, until I point 'Start mission'. then... this is the crash.

I hope that you will be able to figure out where the problem is (or could be).

#7 Did you install OpenAL?

#8 That is very strange. Have you tried the precompiled Torque binaries?

#9 Yes, I used the openAL installer for windows. I get also the OpenAL SDK. the samples work correctly.

#10 I was going to post this under my first response, but you beat me to it:

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If you pulled the current HEAD version of Torque, I see that they now include OpenAL in the /example directory. But you are also going to need the two DLL's ogg.dll and vorbis.dll which can be found here.
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#11 >Ben
yes, the Torque v1.2 Demo works (and I decided to buy one licence just after reviewing it :-))

#12 >Richard
thanks (never mind if I receive your messg in several posts..;-)
I installed ogg+vorbis dll
do you mean I have to move the openal directory into /example? or just the headers of openal/win32/al? or just one file? should I have to compil something?

#13 You do not need to move the OpenAL32.dll file into the /example directory, it should be there from CVS. As far as I know, you will need to have the two files: ogg.dll and vorbis.dll in the /example directory also.

#14 I'm currently working with the torque 1_1_1 release. I moved the ogg+vorbis dll in /example, try to compil again, but... :( you guess what? yes... one crash. why openAL is (or could be) involved in the crash sequence?

#15 In the oggvorbis directory, I can see also one vorbisenc and vorbisfile dll? guess it is for encoding... but...

#16 OK, now that I know you are using Release_1_1_1, you can forget about what I said. I assumed that you where using the latest HEAD version or at least Release_1_2_0 (which you should use as there are many fixes that you don't have).
The reason that I think you are getting the crash in OpenAL is from this line:

unhandled exception in torqueDemo_DEBUG.exe (WRAP_OAL.dll): OxCOOOOOO5: access violation

The file WRAP_OAL.dll is the OpenAL wrapper. Since this was recently introduced into the OpenAL CVS HEAD, I don't know how compatible it is going to be with Release_1_1_1. If you want, I can email you the OpenAL32.dll file that does work with Release_1_1_1?

#17 1.11 is not the latest stable release, grab 1.2 instead.

edit: oops beat me to it

#18 Ok, thank you all, guys. I will get the 1_2 release of the torque engine. I'm sure then that this last post will end this thread ;-) see U

I did not grab the 1_2 release cause I thought it was only for core dev (even if this version is marked as 'recommended'). this is my fault... mea culpa.sorry.