Demo crashes on startup

**dewman17** · 10-05-2010, 06:56 PM

so i downloaded the demo for amnesia. however, the screen goes black for a split second. then a box shows up saying:
FATAL ERROR: Failed to initialize display

i have a 15 inch macbook pro(2010 edition)
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 processor
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics card

Whats wrong?

**Urkle** · 10-05-2010, 09:21 PM

Can you provide me the hpl.log from your [home]/Library/Application Support/Frictional Games/Amnesia/Main folder?
What version of Mac OS X are you running?? do you have the latest updates installed?

**dewman17** · 10-06-2010, 03:56 AM

-------- THE HPL ENGINE LOG ------------
Engine build ID 20100828133220

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 gui module
Creating generate module
Creating haptic module
Creating scene module
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Resources Module
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Creating loader handlers
Creating resource managers
Adding loaders to handlers
--------------------------------------------------------

Initializing Graphics Module
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Setting video mode: 1440 x 900 - 32 bpp
ERROR: Could not set display mode setting a lower one!
FATAL ERROR: Unable to initialize display!

Also, i'm running MAC OS X 10.6.4
And all my software is up to date(i just checked it)

**jens** · 10-06-2010, 07:07 AM

delete the main_settings.cfg file found in the same folder as the above log, then try to start the game with the default settings. If that does not work, try to start the game with the default settings but in window mode and see if that works.

**dewman17** · 10-06-2010, 11:52 AM

did that
it worked the first time in fullscreen mode. now it doesnt work at all, even in windowed mode and after deleting the .cfg file

**jens** · 10-06-2010, 01:04 PM

Go to amnesiagame.com/#demo and re-download the demo, it has been updated to 1.0.1 and that might solve the problem.

**dewman17** · 10-06-2010, 06:37 PM

alright it works perfectly now. thanks

**aj123** · 11-02-2010, 05:52 PM

I am having this problem on my MacBook. I have Amnesia Demo v.1.0.1.1 and it crashes on startup. I tried deleting the config file, setting everything as low as i could and nothing.

BTW I saw someone on scratch.mit.edu with that same username Jens a couple of years ago. Was that you?

**jens** · 11-02-2010, 06:13 PM

No that was not me, but jens is a common name in this part of the world Smile

Your MacBook probably has a Intel integrated graphics chip and that is why it crashes on startup, it is below the minimum requirements.

**aj123** · 11-02-2010, 08:34 PM

(11-02-2010, 06:13 PM)jens Wrote: No that was not me, but jens is a common name in this part of the world

Your MacBook probably has a Intel integrated graphics chip and that is why it crashes on startup, it is below the minimum requirements.

Oh man, I heard good things about this game. I'll just have to sneak onto my brothers laptop and play