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Unusual lockup when starting the .exe

by Phil Carlisle · in Torque Game Builder · 04/07/2007 (8:54 am) · 9 replies

I'm starting beta 2 on my PC and its selecting 1440x800 as its screen res (its my 24 inch monitor), anyway, it sets this res, then locks..

Last line of console.log is:


Torque Game Builder (v1.5 Beta 2) initialized...

Which sounds like its ok.. but I dont get anything in the way of editor. I also had a similar thing on the TFT at work, only that was smaller.
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Associate David Higgins
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#1
04/07/2007 (1:26 pm)
Are you using a stock main.cs in both your exe directory and your last project root directory? could be offending code in the main.cs file(s) that is trying to do something it can't ... verify they are stock ...

Torque 3D Owner Phil Carlisle
#2
04/07/2007 (2:48 pm)
Yeah, it was literally from a fresh install. It seems there isnt a pref that is setup to set the screen res. Unless I'm missing it.

Torque Owner Neo Binedell
#3
04/07/2007 (3:45 pm)
I've posted a fix for the player resolution not being set bug, to fix it manually you can set the resolution in you project xml file and apply the following fix:
(both in your project common dir and the tgb/gamedata/t2dProject/common dir for new projects)

in common/canvas.cs - line 28 change this:

%goodRes = $Game::WindowResolution;

to this:

%goodRes = $Game::Resolution;

Torque Owner Neo Binedell
#4
04/07/2007 (3:49 pm)
Doh youre talking about the builder, screen res is set to the best it can find if the window res is not specifically set. In common/preferences/defaultPrefs.cs add a line e.g:

$prefs::Video::windowedRes = "1024 768 32";

cheers
~neo

Torque 3D Owner Phil Carlisle
#5
04/08/2007 (3:08 am)
Hmm, looking at it, it was setting 1440x880 which seems like it should work, only.. well, using that size it basically sits there looking black.

Appreciate the fix neo, but I'm not sure this isnt a bug. I guess maybe OGL is returning that as a resolution to be used, but it feels wrong, either ogl is wrong, or something else is borked (i.e. that its not actually working at a resolution thats automatically selected).


Edit: Hmm, weird, so if I start the game from within the debugger, it handles the screen res as defined in defaultPrefs.cs, otherwise, it seems to ignore them completely (even though it actually compiles and runs defaultPrefs.cs

Clearly something is going awry here.. Not exactly sure how its MEANT to behave right now.

Torque 3D Owner Phil Carlisle
#6
04/08/2007 (5:14 am)
Now thats really strange, its started working.. might have been some fuckup on my machine I guess.

Torque Owner Neo Binedell
#7
04/08/2007 (6:50 am)
Rule 1 of bug hunting: Ignore it till it goes away ;p

Torque Owner Nuno Silva
#8
04/11/2007 (5:32 pm)
I'm having the same problem... when starting TGB it opens the app window but stays black and locked (not responding). Not even a restart handles this. It's my third install because last two had the same error after a few hours of work.

Any ideas?

Torque Owner Nuno Silva
#9
04/11/2007 (5:38 pm)
Forgot to say it's TGB 1.5 latest release