Cannot load the game

[MentalMan]

Hello there, thought i rather post here instead of opening up a new thread.

Anyways, i was waiting for this game eager after playing the sweet demo. But then my hopes of playing the full version of this game crushed upon me

When i start the game, i get this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/M...ncrash.jpg

And here's the log:

-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------

Creating Engine Modules
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Creating graphics module
Creating system module
Creating resource module
Creating input module
Creating sound module
Creating physics module
Creating ai module
Creating scene module
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Initializing Resources Module
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Creating resource managers
Misc Creation
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Initializing Graphics Module
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Init low level graphics
Setting video mode: 800 x 600 - 32 bpp
Init Glee...OK
Setting up OpenGL
Max texture image units: 16
Max texture coord units: 8
Two sided stencil: 1
Vertex Buffer Object: 1
Anisotropic filtering: 1
Max Anisotropic degree: 16
Multisampling: 1
Vertex Program: 1
Fragment Program: 1
NV Register Combiners: 0
NV Register Combiners Stages: 11
ATI Fragment Shader: 1
Creating graphic systems
Creating Renderer2D
Renderer2D created
Creating Renderer3D
Load Renderer3D gpu programs:
Extrude
Diffuse
Fog
Creating fog textures: Solid Additive Alpha
init sky box
Renderer3D created
Creating screen buffers size 800.000000 : 600.000000
Creating programs
RendererPostEffects created
Adding engine materials
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Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL.
Trying to open software device...

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I somewhat get the feeling it has something to do with openal. I once had serious problems with this, sorry, crap software. Anyhow, i installed the latest version of it several times, after, of course a clean deinstall and a reboot. Also i updatet my ATI drivers, changed from catalyst to omega, didnt do anything. Still same problem. I could play the tech and the overture demo just fine at an awesome framerate, so it cant be my hardware. Here are the specs anyway:

AMD Athlon 2.2+
ATI Radeon x850 pro 256mb 500/500mhz
785mb of Ram.

I hope anyone can help me, i did not find any answers to this problems on the forums or the help sections from frictional games.

Thanks in advance, i hope to, someday, being able enjoy this fine piece of software you guys made there.

[jens]

Make sure you update the audio drivers for the audio card to the latest. But if you were able to run the penumbra overture demo this should not be needed.

Go to My Documents/Penumbra Overture/Episode1 and delete the settings.cfg file, run the game again and see if that works. If not search the settings.cfg file for the a sound setting that is, I think, UseHardware or something like that and set it to true if it is false.

[MentalMan]

Yup thats true, updating the audo card driver should be out of the question. And sadly, its a terratec auroeon 5.1 fun or something, im afraid they seem to stopped doing any new drivers. I also tryed to switch to onboard sound, and try it that way, but no luck.

I also already gave the "UseSoundHardware=" change trick a try after i found releated stuff to this, but either way, again not much of a luck.

Also, the game seems to dosnt even being able to create a new settings.cfg. The Episode1 folder in my documents contains only the 2 log files "hpl.log" and "hpl_update.log". (which is empty.) I tryed to copy the default_settings.cfg, which i made the usesound stuff changes in, to the my documents folders and rename it to settings.cfg. But, as expected, again not much of a change.

Ugh, i feel so alone

[Thomas]

MentalMan:
As Jens also said, this is a problem with your soundcard and its drivers. And yeah OpenAL can be very messy at times. I am not sure what you can do really though, I need to speak to Luis who made the sound lib and discuss what can be done. The same error has been reported by other people and I will try to get it fixed as soon as possible.

In the mean time, check drivers, switch sound card and update its drivers, etc. Also chekc this the forum every now and then as we will hopefully make some kind of test app soon.

[MentalMan]

Alright, will do that. And thanks guys, for helping out so far, and working one some workaround for this.

Very nice and skilled dev team behind all this, so it seems.
Catch ya laters guys!

[grochti]

I cannot run the demo of this game.
("Gleitkomma-Ausnahme" should translate to "floating point exeption")

[stephan@noname PenumbraEp1Demo]$ ./penumbrademo
./penumbrademo: line 2: 4647 Gleitkomma-Ausnahme LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./penumbrademo.bin

[Thomas]

I cannot run the demo of this game.
("Gleitkomma-Ausnahme" should translate to "floating point exeption")

[stephan@noname PenumbraEp1Demo]$ ./penumbrademo
./penumbrademo: line 2: 4647 Gleitkomma-Ausnahme LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib ./penumbrademo.bin

Please check the linux thread:
http://frictionalgames.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=685

[sonitw]

mental

i'm french, and my english is "frenchiz" sorry.
if u have an nforce, you have to uptade this, in the nvidia website, driver audio for all nforce.
the number for allnforce (4.xxx) is under the number for nforce 1/2 (6.14xx)
and may be u need have your soundcard update and the driver audio of your nforce update.
or undress (sorry is not the good word) the sound card of the motherboard, and try with the audio of the motherboard

good luck
try, is working for me

[MentalMan]

mental

i'm french, and my english is "frenchiz" sorry.
if u have an nforce, you have to uptade this, in the nvidia website, driver audio for all nforce.
the number for allnforce (4.xxx) is under the number for nforce 1/2 (6.14xx)
and may be u need have your soundcard update and the driver audio of your nforce update.
or undress (sorry is not the good word) the sound card of the motherboard, and try with the audio of the motherboard

good luck
try, is working for me

Sweet, thanks! I sure will give this a try.

[jens]

Please come back and give an update on if it worked and exactly how you did it(link to drivers etc). So I can improve the support section, thank you!