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Valdier

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(40d) DF won't start
« on: July 27, 2009, 04:05:42 pm »
I try running Dwarf Fortress but every time it asks if I want fullscreen or windowed and I select one it will say that Windows has encountered a problem and closes it out. Running on Windows XP service pack 2.
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 05:06:58 pm »
What are the specs of your system hardware?  Can you run other games that use OpenGL?
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 05:11:33 pm »
my PC is a few years old but was top of the line at them time.
1GB RAM
AMD XP 3000 2.1Ghz
RADEON 9800 Pro 256MB
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 05:17:56 pm »
Yeah, your system should run it fine.  Where's the game installed on your hard drive?  You can try re-downloading a fresh copy of the game from http://bay12games.com/dwarves/ and installing (extracting/unzipping) it to a different location on your hard drive, in case the first download was corrupted or something.
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 05:28:10 pm »
I've done that I just redownloaded it to my desktop and extracted it to a folder on my desktop and it still comes up with the same problem.
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2009, 07:10:35 pm »
Try updating your graphics drivers and verifying that you can run other OpenGL games.  Crashes after the windowed/fullscreen prompt can be caused by a problem initializing the graphics.
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2009, 10:44:24 am »
Try Dl'ing other games and programs see if they work if they don't or you cant remove'em its your hard drive
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2009, 05:07:06 pm »
did you ever figure this out? I have the same problem, and i have windows vista, should have no problem running this game, it just doesn't know how to..
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2009, 01:22:17 pm »
every time it asks if I want fullscreen or windowed and I select one it will just closes it out, without message, without anythin (same problem  ithink)
2Gb ram
2x2ghz amd
video card ATI 2600HD 512mb
last drivers.
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2009, 01:32:44 pm »
Y'all could try setting [WINDOWED:YES] in init.txt.  That helped for somebody recently.
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2009, 01:55:40 pm »
nope.
i think its a driver control problem...
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Re: (40d) DF won't start
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2009, 03:22:18 am »
itsa OGL error.
For all who "suffers" from that OpenGL 1.1 start-up problem

It turned out that the newer Catalysts point to the openGL32.dll in winxp system/system32 folder, while ATI's opengl driver is "atioglxx.dll" and in order to
use this ATI openGL you have to add the following key in the regedit to "correct" the link.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\OpenGLDrivers\ati2dvag]
"Dll"="atioglxx.dll"
"DriverVersion"=dword:00000001
"Flags"=dword:00000001
"Version"=dword:00000002

now it works fine :3
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