SDL2 crahes / startup issues

[Core]

[Moderator note: posts in this thread were originally in Shaders & disabling shaders -- moved by jpab]

If maintaining the a non-shader build would allow me to actually run the Win builds (i can't run them for months now, throws OpenGL extension errors) then i say do it... yes, i have one of those Intel CPU/GPU laptops, i can't be the only one, Pioneer ran great before this error.

ERROR: OpenGL extension AB_vertex_buffer_object not supported

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Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD Driver for Mobile Report
Driver Version:			6.14.10.5420
Operating System:		Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3(5.1.2600)
Default Language:		English (United States)
DirectX* Version:		9.0
Physical Memory:		3037 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory:	32 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory:	256 MB
Graphics Memory in Use:		55 MB
Processor:			x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13
Processor Speed:		1994 MHz
Vendor ID:			8086
Device ID:			2A42
Device Revision:		07
Accelerator in Use:		Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Video BIOS:			1659.0
Current Graphics Mode:		1280 by 800
Active Digital Televisions: 1
Active Notebook Displays: 1

[FluffyFreak]

@Core, that looks like you've got out of date drivers.
That GPU isn't very good but it should certainly be capable of running OpenGL 2.0!

I'm only guessing but is this your chipset? http://www.intel.com/Products/Notebook/ ... erview.htm

[Core]

Yup, correct, and i'm running the latest Intel drivers, but the latest Intel drivers are a no go, the older Pioneer Win builds work... it was in September things changed, the last Win build that worked was pioneer-201309.75-win32.

[FluffyFreak]

Ok that sounds like a bug with the game more than anything else, especially if it used to work.
Can you upload the files, or the contents of the files, OpenGL.txt, stderr.txt and stdout.txt that are create in your "documents/Pioneer/" folder to pastebin.com or somewhere else where we can download them?
If you want to create a new topic on here or preferrably an issue on the github page https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pion ... state=open then we'll try and work out whats gone wrong with the game or with your config.

[Core]

Not much in the non-working files, both std*.txt are blank after the error, the opengl.txt is not even created; but i'll display the .75 working versions below, non-working tests are on pioneer-20131115-win32:

stdout.txt:

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WORKING
Initialized GL2 renderer
started 1 worker threads
Number of factions added: 103
NOT WORKING
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stderr.txt:

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WORKING
Requested AA mode: 2x, actual: 1x
ship definition for 'amphiesma' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'amphiesma' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'deneb' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'deneb' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'dsminer' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'kanara' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'lunarshuttle' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'lunarshuttle' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'molamola' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'molamola' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'natrix' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'natrix' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'pumpkinseed' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'pumpkinseed' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'venturestar' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'venturestar' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
ship definition for 'wave' has deprecated 'camera_offset' field
ship definition for 'wave' has deprecated 'gun_mounts' field
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
.
.
.
NOT WORKING
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opengl.txt:

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WORKING
OpenGL version 2.1.0 - Build 6.14.10.5420, running on Intel Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
GLEW version 1.10.0
Shading language version: 1.20  - Intel Build 6.14.10.5420
Available extensions:
  GL_EXT_blend_minmax
  GL_EXT_blend_subtract
  GL_EXT_blend_color
  GL_EXT_abgr
  GL_EXT_texture3D
  GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint
  GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
  GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp
  GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap
  GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
  GL_SGIS_texture_lod
  GL_EXT_rescale_normal
  GL_EXT_packed_pixels
  GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
  GL_EXT_separate_specular_color
  GL_ARB_multitexture
  GL_EXT_texture_env_combine
  GL_EXT_bgra
  GL_EXT_blend_func_separate
  GL_EXT_secondary_color
  GL_EXT_fog_coord
  GL_EXT_texture_env_add
  GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
  GL_ARB_transpose_matrix
  GL_ARB_texture_env_add
  GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
  GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
  GL_NV_blend_square
  GL_ARB_texture_compression
  GL_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1
  GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
  GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp
  GL_ARB_point_parameters
  GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
  GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
  GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar
  GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
  GL_ARB_shadow
  GL_ARB_window_pos
  GL_EXT_shadow_funcs
  GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
  GL_ARB_vertex_program
  GL_EXT_texture_rectangle
  GL_ARB_fragment_program
  GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
  GL_ATI_separate_stencil
  GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
  GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
  GL_ARB_occlusion_query
  GL_ARB_fragment_shader
  GL_ARB_shader_objects
  GL_ARB_shading_language_100
  GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
  GL_ARB_vertex_shader
  GL_NV_texgen_reflection
  GL_ARB_point_sprite
  GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate
  GL_ARB_depth_texture
  GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
  GL_ARB_draw_buffers
  GL_ARB_color_buffer_float
  GL_ARB_half_float_pixel
  GL_ARB_texture_float
  GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
  GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
  GL_ARB_draw_instanced
  GL_ARB_half_float_vertex
  GL_EXT_draw_buffers2
  GL_WIN_swap_hint
  GL_EXT_texture_sRGB
  GL_EXT_packed_float
  GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent
  GL_ARB_texture_rg
  GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc
  GL_NV_conditional_render
  GL_EXT_texture_swizzle
  GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB
  GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil
  GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float
  GL_EXT_transform_feedback
  GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit
  GL_ARB_framebuffer_object
  GL_ARB_vertex_array_object
  
Implementation Limits:
GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE = 256
GL_MAX_ATTRIB_STACK_DEPTH = 16
GL_MAX_CLIENT_ATTRIB_STACK_DEPTH = 16
GL_MAX_CLIP_PLANES = 6
GL_MAX_COLOR_ATTACHMENTS_EXT = 8
GL_MAX_COLOR_MATRIX_STACK_DEPTH -- not supported
GL_MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = 16
GL_MAX_CUBE_MAP_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048
GL_MAX_DRAW_BUFFERS = 8
GL_MAX_ELEMENTS_INDICES = 1024
GL_MAX_ELEMENTS_VERTICES = 1024
GL_MAX_EVAL_ORDER = 32
GL_MAX_FRAGMENT_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS = 1024
GL_MAX_LIGHTS = 8
GL_MAX_LIST_NESTING = 64
GL_MAX_MODELVIEW_STACK_DEPTH = 32
GL_MAX_NAME_STACK_DEPTH = 128
GL_MAX_PIXEL_MAP_TABLE = 65536
GL_MAX_PROJECTION_STACK_DEPTH = 4
GL_MAX_RENDERBUFFER_SIZE_EXT = 4096
GL_MAX_SAMPLES_EXT -- not supported
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_COORDS = 8
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = 16
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_LOD_BIAS = 15.9375
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT = 2
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 4096
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_STACK_DEPTH = 10
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS = 8
GL_MAX_VARYING_FLOATS = 41
GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS = 16
GL_MAX_VERTEX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = 16
GL_MAX_VERTEX_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS = 512
GL_NUM_COMPRESSED_TEXTURE_FORMATS = 6
GL_SAMPLE_BUFFERS = 0
GL_SAMPLES = 1
GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE = 1, 7
GL_ALIASED_POINT_SIZE_RANGE = 1, 255
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS = 4096, 4096
GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE = 0, 7.5
GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE = 0.5, 10
NOT WORKING
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[FluffyFreak]

That's odd, I can see it (GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object) right there in the opengl.txt extension listing.

Would you mind trying one of the latest builds? I notice that there's a libpng error in there too and I think all of those were recently fixed by jpab.

[jpab]

it was in September things changed, the last Win build that worked was pioneer-201309.75-win32.

This may be a red herring, but 201309.75 was immediately before the switch to SDL2. The version after that is 201309.116 (pioneer-201309.116-win32.7z), and the only changes between those two versions are the switch to SDL2, an update to the Kanara model, and updating the version of the miniz library that we use to read zip files.

Regarding opengl.txt, we've had some confusion in the past caused by an old copy of opengl.txt being left in the directory, because the game didn't get far enough to write out a new version. Could you try renaming or deleting opengl.txt and running the game again, please?

[Core]

Well, the switch to SDL2 was what i thought did it too, or just something in the compilation since..., as i mentioned (edited for clarity) above, when i run any Win build newer than .75 it crashes before the std*.txt files get re-written, they remain empty; i had thought it was writing a new opengl.txt because i thought it was comparing differently than the working one (in white-space), but i was wrong, it is not getting re-created at all. The not-working tests were done with latest SF Win build. Note, there's a series of libpng errors, i just truncated the list of repetitions to one, glad those were fixed. I guess if what's going on has nothing to do with shaders i should move the posts out from hi-jacking this thread, is this SDL2 or ?

[jpab]

I guess if what's going on has nothing to do with shaders i should move the posts out from hi-jacking this thread, is this SDL2 or ?

Don't worry about it. If necessary I'll extract stuff into a separate thread with magical mod powers.

Zordey had an error pretty much exactly like this which we debugged on IRC. Something for you to try: open up Pioneer's config.ini in a text editor and set AntiAliasingMode to 0. By default we have antialising (multisampling) enabled, and the game is supposed to automatically turn it off if it's not supported, but that automatic fall-back was broken when we switched to SDL2. I thought we fixed it after Zordey hit this problem, but maybe it's still broken. (Or maybe the problem you're seeing is something completely unrelated)

To get more information about what bits of OpenGL are supported on your system (since Pioneer isn't giving us any useful info about that), try downloading the win32 binaries for GLEW (here's a direct link to the sourceforge download page for it). In that zip file go to bin/Release/Win32 and run visualinfo.exe. It should generate a text file (visualinfo.txt) which lists the supported GL extensions and also all the supported video modes.

[FluffyFreak]

This is the overflow from "Shaders & disabling shaders" - http://pioneerspacesim.net/forum/viewto ... 1041#p1042 to discuss/track problems caused by the switch to SDL2 for some users.

it was in September things changed, the last Win build that worked was pioneer-201309.75-win32.

This may be a red herring, but 201309.75 was immediately before the switch to SDL2. The version after that is 201309.116 (pioneer-201309.116-win32.7z), and the only changes between those two versions are the switch to SDL2, an update to the Kanara model, and updating the version of the miniz library that we use to read zip files.

Regarding opengl.txt, we've had some confusion in the past caused by an old copy of opengl.txt being left in the directory, because the game didn't get far enough to write out a new version. Could you try renaming or deleting opengl.txt and running the game again, please?

Well, the switch to SDL2 was what i thought did it too, or just something in the compilation since..., as i mentioned (edited for clarity) above, when i run any Win build newer than .75 it crashes before the std*.txt files get re-written, they remain empty; i had thought it was writing a new opengl.txt because i thought it was comparing differently than the working one (in white-space), but i was wrong, it is not getting re-created at all. The not-working tests were done with latest SF Win build. Note, there's a series of libpng errors, i just truncated the list of repetitions to one, glad those were fixed. I guess if what's going on has nothing to do with shaders i should move the posts out from hi-jacking this thread, is this SDL2 or ?