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Raane

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Dwarf fortress won't start
« on: March 04, 2008, 08:11:00 am »
No error, just a blank command prompt when i run dwarfort.exe.
I'm running vista if that helps at all? I've tried disabling all my firewalls,anti-spyware and antivirus software and still nada.
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Draco18s

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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2008, 09:51:00 am »
Sounds like a driver problem, similar to "all my ASCII are dots!"
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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2008, 09:53:00 am »
Draco, did you just pull a Microsoft?
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Raane

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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2008, 01:44:00 pm »
Any idea of solution if it is said driver issue?
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grelphy

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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #4 on: March 04, 2008, 02:16:00 pm »
I've had a similar issue on a totally different system; probably unrelated, but may help. My problem was when running DF under Linux from a terminal, the current directory had to be the dwarf fortress directory
(i.e.,
~/$ df/Dwarfort.exe
didn't work but
~/df/$ ./Dwarfort.exe
did)
or it would look for neccesary files in the (incorrect) current directory and fail almost silently.

As I said, probably unrelated, but may help. If this was totally incomprehensible, my apologies. =)

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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #5 on: March 04, 2008, 03:38:00 pm »
quote:
Sounds like a driver problem, similar to "all my ASCII are dots!"

*Ahem* I hate to derail this thread but would you kindly tell me what driver causes this for a poor soul who had his hard drive fried? (I cant find it in the forum search anywhere  :( )

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kirunobliv

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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2008, 03:59:00 pm »
I'm a fellow DF on Vister player...


Did you mess with the ini.txt settings regarding windowed/full screen fontsize?

That has made my screen black for DF.

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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2008, 04:01:00 pm »
That would entirely depend on your video card.

Do you hear any sound when you run it?  If it's really a video driver issue, I'd expect that you *probably* still get sound, just about as soon as you start the game.  It's possible that REALLY hosed drivers would just lock up the game though.

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Re: Dwarf fortress won't start
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2008, 04:28:00 pm »
A completely black prompt sounds to me like you told it to use a tileset but either typed it wrong or didn't convert one from the internet to bitmap. The driver issue usually still shows a few squares here and there. Alternatively, maybe even the default tilesets are missing somehow. Double-check your init.txt and data/art/ folder.
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