hmm, I have absolutely no idea :-[
It used to work on linux before…
IIRC, you are limited in choosing the video on linux as they are kind of ‘fixed’ which is why CT falls back to any video mode it can find. Could you maybe try to set your video mode to either 16 or 32 bits? (I never trust 24 bits for some reason :))
On a Win2k box with and Intel graphics card: Changes mode then just sits there with a black screen. Randomly hit the arrow keys and enter. Got into the game, very jerky (no surprise on this card). Hit escape and the machine locked up, had to pull the power cord.
:’(
any logs?
Not that I can find, sorry.
worked fine on my xp box - however got a black screen first, which I pushed a lot of buttons first - and then it displayed itself. Worked fine, though the mouse movement is a bit oddish/jerky ?
JWS application manager has an option to write a log. I’d hate to ask to crash your machine again though 
[quote]worked fine on my xp box - however got a black screen first, which I pushed a lot of buttons first - and then it displayed itself. Worked fine, though the mouse movement is a bit oddish/jerky ?
[/quote]
Maybe I should add a ‘loading…’ screen.
Dunno about the mouse movement. It’s quite smooth here… What do you mean by ‘oddish’?
Doesn’t work. Here’s the log (Radeon 9700pro, Cat4.2 drivers, Win XP):
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 32 @70Hz
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 16 @60Hz
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 32 @85Hz
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 32 @60Hz
java.lang.Exception: Problem starting loop
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.start(BaseWindow.java:223)
at net.movegaga.GameWindow.main(GameWindow.java:309)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Problem initialising GL
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.createGLWindow(BaseWindow.java:173)
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.start(BaseWindow.java:186)
... 12 more
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Failed to set display mode.
at org.lwjgl.Display.setDisplayMode(Native Method)
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.createGLWindow(BaseWindow.java:154)
... 13 more
Game Ended.
In my own LWJGL stuff, i can set 80060032bpp @ 85Hz without a problem.
Well, 24 bit colors are the linux way of saying 32 bits per pixel. I’m suspecting that you draw the menu (or whatever) too close to the near view plane, since the controls seem to work. And depending on z buffer precision the menu might suddenly disappear.
- elias
[quote]Well, 24 bit colors are the linux way of saying 32 bits per pixel. I’m suspecting that you draw the menu (or whatever) too close to the near view plane, since the controls seem to work. And depending on z buffer precision the menu might suddenly disappear.
[/quote]
Linux’s got a funny way of saying things 
Let me check z clip thing, although it would surprise me that is in fact the problem. I’ve tested on my work PC with intel video, and I have the same problem with the black screen instead of menu (pressing enter in the black screen puts you in the game), where before I didn’t have any problems.
[quote]In my own LWJGL stuff, i can set 80060032bpp @ 85Hz without a problem.
[/quote]
But can you set 80060032@60 without a problem? It crashes on Display.setDisplayMode(mode).
[quote]worked fine on my xp box - however got a black screen first
[/quote]
Did you see the menu?
Thanks for testing guys, it seems it only works fine on my PC and Orangy Tang’s (maybe Matzon’s too, although I’m not very happy with the black screen) which is a pretty embarrassing score.
Back to the drawing board
Erik
Mac OS X 10.3.2 JRE 1.4.2_03
Java Web Start 1.4.2_03 Console, started Wed Feb 25 09:53:34 EST 2004
Java 2 Runtime Environment: Version 1.4.2_03 by Apple Computer, Inc.
Logging to file: /Users/scottpalmer/webstart.log
Game starting.
Init config…
Config not present.
-> Directory ./.cosmictrip created at /.cosmictrip
Saving config…Ok.
Entering set-up…
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 16 @0Hz
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 32 @0Hz
/data/ship1.jpg
/data/txtr17-256.jpg
/data/smoke5.png
/data/flare2.png
/data/expl_0.png
/data/expl_1.png
/data/expl_2.png
/data/expl_3.png
/data/expl_4.png
/data/expl_5.png
/data/expl_6.png
/data/expl_7.png
/data/expl_8.png
/data/expl_9.png
/data/target.png
/data/score.png
/data/level.png
/data/dist.png
/data/fuel.png
/data/19x16Lucida.png
/data/ct.png
/data/menu.png
/data/flare3.png
/data/difficulty.png
/data/bgrad.png
It just sat there with a blank black screen - I had to kill the process. I half expected to see an exception reported in the log.
No, i can’t. Maybe that’s because i’m using refresh-force, a tool that forces a fixed refresh-rate (of 85Hz in my case). I’m doing this, because i simply can’t stand the 60Hz flickering many OpenGL games are showing otherwise and this tool was the only thing that worked on my machine.
tryied again, this time no crash so the log doesn’t show anything useful but the menu still doesn’t show up.
@Orangy Tang:
I doubled the sparks
@EgonOlsen:
On the desktop, there’s a .cosmictrip folder with a config.xml file. You can set the refresh rate from 60 to 85 there. (If there’s also a .config.xml, delete it. It’s from the previous version and doesn’t have the //video/refresh tag). There will be a GUI for that at startup.
@zparticle, swpalmer, elias, matzon:
I moved the near clipping pane a bit closer in a vague attempt to solve the black screen problem (the menu was draw exactly on the near clipping pane, although the overlays do not do any depth testing).
You could also try pressing return after a few secs of black screen (maybe after a mouse click for focus which seems somtimes to be necessary with jws). It should enter the game then.
Erik
Ona little bit different note, EricD, the demo you let me see a few weeks ago looks great. I am keen to show whatever you have have on a demo pod in our booth at GDC and point people to your site.
Very cool and quite addictive
-ChrisM
I’ve deleted the JWS cache and downloaded the whole stuff again. Now i have a config.xml-file in that directory and i changed the refresh-rate to 85. But it still gives me the same error. It still tries to set 800*600@60Hz and exits… :’(
That’s strange :-[ It works here by just changing the refresh tag in the config.xml.
The latest version also has a bit more logging. Could you post the log again?
Erik
[quote]@zparticle, swpalmer, elias, matzon:
I moved the near clipping pane a bit closer in a vague attempt to solve the black screen problem (the menu was draw exactly on the near clipping pane, although the overlays do not do any depth testing).
You could also try pressing return after a few secs of black screen (maybe after a mouse click for focus which seems somtimes to be necessary with jws). It should enter the game then.
Erik
[/quote]
Nope still blank & black.
Though the webstart log now has the OGL capabilities:
…
/data/bgrad.png
initialized ok.
GL_VENDOR:ATI Technologies Inc.
GL_RENDERER,:ATI Radeon 9000 OpenGL Engine
GL_VERSION:1.3 ATI-1.3.4
GL_EXTENSIONS:GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_blend GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_APPLE_client_storage GL_APPLE_specular_vector GL_APPLE_transform_hint GL_APPLE_packed_pixels GL_APPLE_fence GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object GL_APPLE_vertex_program_evaluators GL_APPLE_element_array GL_APPLE_flush_render GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_APPLE_texture_range GL_APPLE_vertex_array_range GL_APPLE_ycbcr_422 GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ATI_array_rev_comps_in_4_bytes GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate GL_ATI_blend_weighted_minmax GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_fog_distance GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod
Ok, I tried it again, this time music started and I could enter the game by pressing enter. But still no menu 
- elias
[quote]The latest version also has a bit more logging. Could you post the log again?
[/quote]
Sure, but it’s basically the same as before. The line numbers have changed, but that’s it. Anyway:
Game starting.
Init config...
Loading config...Ok.
Entering set-up...
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 32 @70Hz
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 16 @60Hz
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 32 @85Hz
Maybe selecting mode 800 x 600 x 32 @60Hz
java.lang.Exception: Problem starting loop
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.start(BaseWindow.java:254)
at net.movegaga.GameWindow.main(GameWindow.java:317)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Problem initialising GL
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.createGLWindow(BaseWindow.java:204)
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.start(BaseWindow.java:217)
... 12 more
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Failed to set display mode.
at org.lwjgl.Display.setDisplayMode(Native Method)
at net.movegaga.BaseWindow.createGLWindow(BaseWindow.java:185)
... 13 more
Game Ended.