Console crashing in vista (32-bit)
by Thomas Vanhoutte · in Technical Issues · 07/21/2008 (11:26 pm) · 3 replies
Greetings,
After doing a fresh install i found out that my console won't work once the game is loaded (starter.fps).
I get alot of errors floading the console while the mission is loading like :
No such file 'starter.fps/unnamed.jpg'
No such file 'starter.fps/unnamed.png'
No such file 'starter.fps/unnamed.bmp'
No such file 'starter.fps/data/unnamed.jpg'
No such file 'starter.fps/data/unnamed.png'
No such file 'starter.fps/data/unnamed.bmp'
and so on..
In addition it's also saying it can't find certain textures :
Could not locate texture: starter.fps/data/shapes/player/base.lmale
and a few more of these..
And once the game is done loading i can't bring up my console anymore.. wich is kind of frustrating when trying to track errors..
Don't know if any of the ones above could cause this crash.. but since it's a clean install i find it odd that my console crashes.. is this a known vista issue? or?
Btw.. is there a console log somewhere wich i could copy paste here?
ps: Using Torque sdk 1.5.2
edit: Besides of the console not working the game seems to run fine.
After doing a fresh install i found out that my console won't work once the game is loaded (starter.fps).
I get alot of errors floading the console while the mission is loading like :
No such file 'starter.fps/unnamed.jpg'
No such file 'starter.fps/unnamed.png'
No such file 'starter.fps/unnamed.bmp'
No such file 'starter.fps/data/unnamed.jpg'
No such file 'starter.fps/data/unnamed.png'
No such file 'starter.fps/data/unnamed.bmp'
and so on..
In addition it's also saying it can't find certain textures :
Could not locate texture: starter.fps/data/shapes/player/base.lmale
and a few more of these..
And once the game is done loading i can't bring up my console anymore.. wich is kind of frustrating when trying to track errors..
Don't know if any of the ones above could cause this crash.. but since it's a clean install i find it odd that my console crashes.. is this a known vista issue? or?
Btw.. is there a console log somewhere wich i could copy paste here?
ps: Using Torque sdk 1.5.2
edit: Besides of the console not working the game seems to run fine.
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#2
I decided to just map 'toggleConsole' to another key ('b').
Now the 'b' key opens and closes the console just fine.
However, there's still something weird going on: if the console is already open, tilde will close it, but cannot reopen it. I don't understand this, but at least I have full access again.
09/07/2013 (10:29 pm)
I'm having this same problem. I'm using Vista 32-bit, and did have an additional non-English keyboard installed (until I read David's comment).I decided to just map 'toggleConsole' to another key ('b').
Now the 'b' key opens and closes the console just fine.
However, there's still something weird going on: if the console is already open, tilde will close it, but cannot reopen it. I don't understand this, but at least I have full access again.
#3
09/08/2013 (10:00 am)
Console must use another action map - search the project for ~ and you should be able to change that location too. Not sure you want to use 'b' though - then you couldn't use any word with 'b' in it in the console.... 
Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
You can check the console.log that is created in the application folder. The image files not found shouldn't cause this issue, though.