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DoomRL => Bug Reports => Topic started by: renecane on February 13, 2012, 04:10

Title: [0.9.9.5] Can't start the game.
Post by: renecane on February 13, 2012, 04:10

Ave! I just downloaded the newest version of DoomRL (0.9.9.5) and for my surprise, I cannot even start the game. Running either doomrl.bat or doomrl.exe leads to an error which only flashes on screen. For our luck this generates error log which tells us this:

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Timestamp   : 13.2.2012 13:03:02
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message     : Fatal exception encountered

An unhandled exception occurred at $00441053 :
EVariantTypeCastError : Could not convert variant of type (Null) into type (String)
  $00441053
  $0043AFBA
  $0041F123  TDOOM__CREATE,  line 331 of src/doombase.pas
  $00401F64  main,  line 47 of src/doomrl.pas

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I am running 32-bit Windows XP SP3. What gives?

Title: Re: [0.9.9.5] Can't start the game.
Post by: Game Hunter on February 13, 2012, 12:43

Are you running the game with a clean slate? Sometimes adding in old files (particularly config.lua) will cause problems because it tries to look for something that didn't exist in a previous version.

Other than that I can't think of a reason off-hand: if the problem still persists then I'll see if I can figure out the problem.

Title: Re: [0.9.9.5] Can't start the game.
Post by: renecane on February 22, 2012, 13:36

I had unzipped the game files in new directory, so there were no files from older installations. I re-downloaded the game and unzipped it in new empty directory and now it works. I had probably written something wrong in the config.lua.

Title: Re: [0.9.9.5] Can't start the game.
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on February 22, 2012, 14:36

This problem will be much better reported in 0.9.9.6... oh, and it will have an installer too ;)

Title: Re: [0.9.9.5] Can't start the game.
Post by: Motorheadbanger on February 22, 2012, 18:07

Oh, an installer... *disappointed guy meme here*

Title: Re: [0.9.9.5] Can't start the game.
Post by: ParaSait on February 23, 2012, 04:00

Quote from: Motorheadbanger on February 22, 2012, 18:07

Oh, an installer... *disappointed guy meme here*

Its optional. There'll be the usual zip archive download too.
(well at least the latest unreleased version has)