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New version of demo available

Kevin Hawkins · 2003-08-04T10:36:55

I may have fixed the majority of the crashes and problems that everyone has been experiencing. I think there will still be some issues with people using older video cards (i.e. TNT2), but I hope more people are able to use the demo without it crashing or causing problems. The download is now only 1.59mb. I decided to switch the bot model to another model I was using during development. It makes things a little more "cute" I guess. http://www.gamedev.net/community/contest/gdarena/gdarenabin.zip If you have a problem, don't just say you have a problem. I want two things: machine specs and a detailed process of how the crash came about and when (i.e. what steps did you take to achieve your crash).

GameDev: Arena Contests

Started by khawk July 17, 2003 01:31 AM

76 comments, last by khawk 20 years, 11 months ago

Anonymous

July 17, 2003 12:09 PM

It doesn''t seem to be working for me? it app starts up but when i click File->Go... nothing. tried F5... nothing. am i missing something here.... the ini file is unchanged and just has TestPlayer twice... i have the dll in the bots directory.. i haven''t changed anything.

WinXP
Athlon 1.4Ghz
384MB Ram
GeForce2 MX 400

mad_goldfish

122

July 17, 2003 12:31 PM

Won't run at all on my machine, just crashes straight out. I don't really expect it to work given my specs, but what version of DirectX and other libraries do we need?

My (non-games...) machine here is:
PII-750 (or so...)
Windows 2000
DirectX 8.0
512Mb RAM
Intel On-board GFX

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Error is:

The instrustion at "0x6fac7663" referenced memory at "0x0937d0000". The memory could not be "read".

[edited by - mad_goldfish on July 17, 2003 1:33:46 PM] Corrected my memory spec. + Typo

[edited by - mad_goldfish on August 4, 2003 11:36:55 AM]

browny

139

July 17, 2003 12:33 PM

the exe crashes in my system...

WinXP Pro
P4 2.4 GHz
TNT2 M64, 32 MB
256 DDR RAM

error description:

AppName: gdarena.exe
AppVer: 1.0.01
ModName: glu32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600 Offset 00006be5

khawk

3,752

Author

July 17, 2003 12:38 PM

Ok, I''ll put in a workaround for some of these crashes, or at least what I think is causing some of these crashes.

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khawk

3,752

Author

July 17, 2003 12:41 PM

quote: Original post by mad_goldfish
Won''t run at all on my machine, just crashes straight out. I don''t really expect it to work given my specs, but what version of DirectX and otehr libraries do we need?

It doesn''t use DirectX, just OpenGL. All I can advise at the moment (until I attempt a fix) is that you have the latest version of your video card''s drivers.

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Hedos

674

July 17, 2003 01:04 PM

The last version was working, but this one just crash with the same error:
AppName: gdarena.exe
AppVer: 1.0.01
ModName: glu32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600 Offset 00006be5

Edit: Cool, just run the application in compatibility mode for Windows 2000 and it works !

[edited by - Hedos on July 17, 2003 2:06:44 PM]

Xgkkp

122

July 17, 2003 01:41 PM

quote: Original post by Hedos
The last version was working, but this one just crash with the same error:
AppName: gdarena.exe
AppVer: 1.0.01
ModName: glu32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600 Offset 00006be5

Edit: Cool, just run the application in compatibility mode for Windows 2000 and it works !

[edited by - Hedos on July 17, 2003 2:06:44 PM]

Yeah, that works on mine too.

Colin Jeanne

1,115

July 17, 2003 03:32 PM

Works perfectly for me.

WinXP SP 1
TNT2 16MB
Athlon 800MHZ
256MB RAM

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TempusElf

186

July 17, 2003 04:00 PM

I know you''re more concerned about compatibility so let me first say that it runs great on my system:

PIII 733MHz
128MB RAM
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro
Windows 98

At work a couple of days ago I downloaded the demo that you had up before there was a whole forum for this contest... but I didn''t have room on my zip disk to extract the whole thing, so I deleted it and figured I''d mess with it later at home... so today I downloaded the new demo and I noticed that the old demo had many more bots... Is it possible at some point to make the other bots available again?

khawk

3,752

Author

July 17, 2003 04:25 PM

quote: Original post by TempusElf
I know you''re more concerned about compatibility so let me first say that it runs great on my system:

PIII 733MHz
128MB RAM
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro
Windows 98

At work a couple of days ago I downloaded the demo that you had up before there was a whole forum for this contest... but I didn''t have room on my zip disk to extract the whole thing, so I deleted it and figured I''d mess with it later at home... so today I downloaded the new demo and I noticed that the old demo had many more bots... Is it possible at some point to make the other bots available again?

I can.. the "bobby" bot didn''t really do much, though. Also, it used an older version of the arena, so it would crash if it was ever hit by a bullet or grenade. The TestPlayer/Kevin bot is my test bot, but I have it fight itself. I will most likely release it with the rest of the documentation.

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