Feral Heart
Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Goldeneyes_721 on June 05, 2012, 10:55:17 pm
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Okay, I've been out for a long time (I mean, a REALLY long time), and throughout this time, my FeralHeart game hasn't been working, so I tried to get it up and running again. I looked for my old post (took a long time to find it, too), then I decided to go find the main Help post (the "Before you ask for help" post), clicked the link for "The BIG help thread", clicked the fourth link (Game is not starting/or having graphical issues/glitches), then did the step-by-step for updating the video driver. After finding out my operating system, I tried to find out what kind of graphics card I have; the something strange happened. When I clicked the Display that's under the Components of the System Summary, there was nothing there. Does that mean I have absolutely no graphics card, if it does, do I need to go download one, or do I have to buy one? Someone PLEASE help.
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If you had no graphics card you wouldn't be able to view anything. Try changing your rendering sub system from OpenGL to Direct3D9 visa versa.
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if there are nothing as graphics card at System Summary, may mean you have installed the uncorrect driver, so the graphics card will still not working.
(dont forget to restart your computer after the driver install)
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For some reason, when I try to replace OpenGL with Direct3D9 as the new Render System in Ogre, the OpenGL keeps coming back, still as the render system. Can anyone explain why this happens? How can I fix this?
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I've also encountered another problem; whenever I try to start up Feral Heart, a small window will open up and fill it up with codes. Then when the ogre windows pop- up, I press okay (get it out the way) and then the FeralHeart window would open up, and then close down. I would try this over and over and over again with no avail. I realized that it no longer tells me the error(s) with the program (the little "An Error has Occurred" window that would state the issue that needs fixing.) It's always done that before, but it just stopped for some reason. Another thing I've noticed is I can't check out my display driver. I've looked in the "Updating your graphics driver!" forum again, and decided to see if I could find my display driver. When I opened up my Control Panel, and looked for "Programs and Features", and you know what? It's not there. I can not find my display driver, along with all the other problems I have with my computer and my FeralHeart game. My patience is wearying thin with these problems, and I REALLY could use some help right now.
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Usually if you don't have a well enough Graphic card on your computer, it will not or may have problems loading the game for you. Now it does sound like you are doing it right to check up on your Graphic card. Perhaps try and restarting your whole computer and looking into it again. If it's still not there then try this other method
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wh4r4mZmoko (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wh4r4mZmoko)
Is shows one different method and the method you've been doing
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The previous version of FH showed what kind of problem you have to run the game, unfortunatelly the newer version does not do that.
Have you sucessfully played another 3D game? if yes, then that means you got your graphics card working correctly, so its just a configuration mistake.
YOu may try to do this:- Try deleting Ogre.cfg and config.good if they exist. So you can get rid of any bad configuration. Try running FH again.
- If you still crashing switch the rendering system, from OpenGL Rendering Subsystem to Direct3D9 Rendering Subsystem or viceversa, and also modify the file config.good with notepad to have 11 writen instead of any mumber.
- Delete you entire Feralheart folder (but backup any presets, maps, screenshots, etc you may want to keep). then install FeralHeart again.
good luck!
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I noticed some kind of progress is being made. I decided to mess around with the files in FeralHeart to see if I could make something work; I decided to move a file called "RenderSystem_GL.dll" to the Recycle Bin (just in case I needed to move it back in) and decided to see what happened if "RenderSystem_Direct3D9.dll" were to be left there. The game immediately flashed off the moment I turned it on, so I did the same process vice versa. The game stayed blank for at least 10 seconds (which is by far the longest time) as if it were trying to process the game. I also changed the config.good file into a Note Pad file and changed the number from 00 to 11, do that might have contributed. I watched the video that was posted and followed the steps and by the time I got to the point where you check the Display option, it once again revealed nothing to me, so I'm going to try to read deeper into this. I feel as if I'm getting closer and closer, but I feel as though something is still in my way, and I need a bit more to get it out of the way.
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start FH from command line like this:
feralheart.exe > .\runlog.txt 2>&1Then paste runlog.txt here
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Paste runlog.txt where? And how exactly do I start FeralHeart from that command line? I know I sound like a noob, but I honestly don't know what you're talking about.
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Command line is a program called "cmd.exe". You can start it by pressing WIN+R on keyboard and typing "cmd.exe"
A black window with some text should appear.
Then, you will need to navigate to FH folder using command line. FH folder is usually "C:\FeralHeart", unless you've changed it duaring installation. To navigate on command line you should use "cd" command, like this "cd \FreralHeart" or "cd \games\FeralHeart" in case you've installed FH in "C:\games\FeralHeart". TAB key auto-completes the path. Pressing ENTER key executes the command. If you want to change the disk you are working with, you should type its letter with colon, and press enter key ("C:","D:", "E:", etc).
Once you're in FH's folder, you will need to start FH with special parameters like this: "feralheart.exe >.\runlog.txt 2>&1", where:
feralheart.exe - name of a program you want to start
>.\runlog.txt - redirect STDOUT stream to a file "runlog.txt" in current folder
2>&1 - redirect STDERR stream to STDOUT
This will create a file named "runlog.txt" in FH's folder, containing technical information that may help to figure out why FH fails to start. You may upload that file somewhere, or just paste its contents here.
http://i.imgur.com/TLKcZei.png (http://i.imgur.com/TLKcZei.png)
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Okay, I followed the steps exactly and this is what happened; the first time I opened up runlog.txt, I found the error saying:
"OGRE EXCEPTION(7:InternalErrorException): Could not load dynamic library RenderSystem_Direct3D9. System Error: The specified module could not be found.in DynLib::load at OgreMain/src/OgreDynLib.cpp (line 91)"
When this happened, I did not have the RenderSystem_Direct3D9.dll in my file. So I took out RenderSystem_GL.dll and put in the other one; when I did, it gave me this:
"OGRE EXCEPTION(3:RenderingAPIException): Cannot create device! in D3D9Device::createD3D9Device at RenderSystems/Direct3D9/src/OgreD3D9Device.cpp (line 707)"
When THIS happened, I decided to add both of the files into the folder; the same message as the second one. I then decided look in the List of known "OGRE exception" errors, looked for these problems, and realized my problems were much bigger than I thought. So what do I do now?
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Kinda big problems, the first error is clearly the missing dll file, so dont remove it from your FeralHeart folder ;)
But about the second one could mean many things, from having another 3D game running, not having directx installed or even not having your graphics card drivers installed.
Since you already tried to install your graphics card drivers, i would guess its related to directx
Press Windows key + R and type dxdiag, then check what version of directX do you have.
Then on the "screen" tab of the dxdiag, check for any problems and do the Direct3D tests.
Also try to run FeralHeart using OpenGL instead of directx and show us the runlog.
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Okay, I've been able to pull up the DirectX Diagnostic Tool again, and found my version of DirectX; it's DirectX 9.0c(4.09.0000.0904). When I tried to do the test for Direct3D, but the option was unable to be performed. I looked in the notes and it said, "Direct 3D functionality not available. You should verify that the driver is a final version from the hardware manufacturer." Where do I go from here?
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i am having a similar problem exepct nothing ur experiencing is happening to me, when i start up my FH after 30-15 and occasionally 3 mins while playing my whole computer will shut itself off. feareh gave me the same video but i will check/do it tonight when my parents are asleep, i am scared to do things with my computer -feels ashamed- i do not want to screw anything up but if i want to continue playing FH i must
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So here is the real problem "Direct 3D functionality not available." that's making FH and any other 3D game to crash.
Most likely you dont have the video drivers installed, or they are the incorrect ones or they are corrupted. You may have a generic video driver.
If you already tried to install the video driver, then could be the incorrect one.
Check the manual/documentary of the computer and look for the type of card you have for your grafics.
Or search on the internet for your video drivers for your computer model, for example: "Asus K53U video drivers".
If you dont have any luck, open your computer and search for any card with the nVidia or ATi logo and take the model tag. If you dont have any graphics card installed, take your mother board model tag. then search again in internet for your graphics card/motherboard model + the keywords "video drivers" for example: "P4SD video drivers"
Download only the drivers from thrusted/official sites and only for your correct operating system, and check if the drivers are for 32bits (x86) or 64bits (x64)
This is a little risky if you never did that before, if you don't know how to do all of this, take your computer with someone who knows well.
@Corrupted About the shutdown of the computer of Corrupted, that's a completly different issue and posibly hardwere problem, so i would pick another thread to ask about that.
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sorry :(
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Ohmygosh! It's working, it's finally working! I followed your steps, installed a video driver and it finally works! The game started up properly, and there were no errors to be found. Thank you, Thierry, thank you all so much :D! I can finally play the game now, hopefully with no worries. There's just one thing left to be answered:
Should I be a feline or a canine (I've never been able to decided XD)?
(And no worries, Corrupted. Hope your problem gets fixed too!)