We’re still failing miserably to get Alien Flux (10mb) running on Matrox cards.
It just crashes out and leaves us no hints as to why.
Could anybody who’s got a G400/450/500 etc have a go with the game who’s got some knowledge of debugging these things and see if they can pinpoint the trouble?
I have a sneaky feeling it’s to do with gamma, and nothing to do with OpenGL.
Thanks; I don’t think that’s it though - we don’t even get as far as changing the screen mode. This is why I suspected it was the gamma code, which is called at around the same time.
Got a G500 at work, i can test it on monday if you want. Not sure it’ll be helpful though, if it does crash, i’m not really sure what i could report to you that could help you.
Ysaneya that would be very helpful. I’ve got a special debug build of the library which has the gamma code commented out. If the game runs I’ll know that’s what it is - but not why it doesn’t work of course
Got some time to spare today, so i went to work and made a test. It crashed for me when trying to initialize OpenAL. I have installed the JVM 1.4.2
Out.log/Alienflux.log:
Starting Alien Flux 1.4b
Gamma set, gamma = 1.0, brightness = 0.0, contrast = 1.0
1244200 free out of 2277376
JWS Classloader looking for: lwjglaudio
Failure locating OpenAL using classloader:
AlienFlux_err.log:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.findLibrary(java.lang.String)
Sun Aug 24 15:07:48 CEST 2003 at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Unknown Source)
Sun Aug 24 15:07:48 CEST 2003 at org.lwjgl.openal.BaseAL.getPathFromJWS(BaseAL.java:146)
Sun Aug 24 15:07:48 CEST 2003 at org.lwjgl.openal.BaseAL.create(BaseAL.java:100)
Sun Aug 24 15:07:48 CEST 2003 at org.lwjgl.openal.AL.create(AL.java:93)
Sun Aug 24 15:07:48 CEST 2003 at xap.Game.init(Game.java:561)
Sun Aug 24 15:07:48 CEST 2003 at xap.Game.main(Game.java:371)
This was tested on a G550, Win2k and 128 Mb of RAM.
Ok, so this exception has been caught, and the actual crash happens just after.
I’m not a Java programmer (well i know Java, but don’t use it everyday), so i don’t have a debugger; the SDK isn’t even installed. Is there one in the SDK that i could use? Will it work without the sources?