Having trouble with lighting

**Urkle** · 10-24-2010, 12:32 AM

What graphics settings do you have the game running at? I jut tested the demo version on a MacBook pro with an X1650 card and at low quality it ran fine. ( this was the detected setting when pressing the detect button in the launcher).

Was this on all levels or a specific level?

Can you provide the main_setting.cfg and new copy of the hpl.log and a saved game if it is a specific level.

**Pandabro** · 11-05-2010, 05:41 PM

I'm having a similar issue. I'm going to try installing the patch soon and see if that fixes it. I've fiddled with settings a bit but to no avail.

**rmharman** · 11-05-2010, 05:50 PM

(10-24-2010, 12:32 AM)Urkle Wrote: What graphics settings do you have the game running at? I jut tested the demo version on a MacBook pro with an X1650 card and at low quality it ran fine. ( this was the detected setting when pressing the detect button in the launcher).

Was this on all levels or a specific level?

Can you provide the main_setting.cfg and new copy of the hpl.log and a saved game if it is a specific level.

Sorry I dropped off this thread; I got a new job which has been keeping me busy. If/when I have time to get back to messing with the game I'll let you know. I've been saving the email notification on this post as a reminder... Confused

**Pandabro** · 11-05-2010, 06:40 PM

I tried installing the patch and it's giving me errors. I think it's probably be cause the game is already updated, I only downloaded it a few days ago.

I tried messing with settings more. I found that putting the settings on low does fix the issue. It is now playable just doesn't look as good as I know it can Sad

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**Urkle** · 11-05-2010, 07:16 PM

Ahh.. then that's the issue.. the "X" cards unfortunately can't handle "medium" or "high". It would be nice to figure out which specific setting that is causing the issue though.

**rmharman** · 11-27-2010, 12:21 AM

(10-24-2010, 12:32 AM)Urkle Wrote: What graphics settings do you have the game running at? I jut tested the demo version on a MacBook pro with an X1650 card and at low quality it ran fine. ( this was the detected setting when pressing the detect button in the launcher).

Was this on all levels or a specific level?

Can you provide the main_setting.cfg and new copy of the hpl.log and a saved game if it is a specific level.

So, I just started up the game, set all the options that had a Low setting to Low, and started a new game. I still have the darkness problem. (Oh, and in answer to your last question, this was a universal problem, on every level. I played all the way up to the end of the sewer level, where you climb a really long ladder, and then I ran into a separate crash problem that brought me to the forum; I heard that probably I'd have to start over, in order to get the benefits of the patch that fixed that crash problem, and I figured if I have to start over anyways I'd like to also get the lighting fixed, first. I've had real problems with running out of tinderboxes and lantern oil, which I doubt I'd be having if the lighting was working right.)

Here's main_settings.cfg:

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<Main ShowMenu="true" ExitMenuDirectly="false" SaveConfig="true" DefaultProfileName="dev_user" UpdateLogActive="false" LoadDebugMenu="false" StartLanguage="english.lang" ScreenShotExt="jpg" ShowPreMenu="true" ForceCacheLoadingAndSkipSaving="true" />

<Graphics TextureQuality="2" TextureFilter="2" TextureAnisotropy="1.000000" Gamma="1.400000" Shadows="1" SSAOActive="true" SSAOSamples="8" SSAOResolution="0" ShadowResolution="0" WorldReflection="true" ParallaxEnabled="true" ParallaxQuality="0" ShadowQuality="0" GBufferType="0" NumOfGBufferTextures="3" Refraction="true" ShadowsActive="true" EdgeSmooth="false" ForceShaderModel3And4Off="false" PostEffectBloom="true" PostEffectImageTrail="true" PostEffectSepia="true" PostEffectRadialBlur="true" PostEffectInsanity="true" OcclusionTestLights="true" />

<Engine LimitFPS="true" SleepWhenOutOfFocus="true" />

<Screen Width="1440" Height="900" FullScreen="true" Vsync="false" />

<Physics PhysicsAccuracy="2" UpdatesPerSec="60.000000" />

<MapLoad FastPhysicsLoad="false" FastStaticLoad="false" FastEntityLoad="false" />

<Sound Device="0" Volume="1.000000" MaxChannels="32" StreamBuffers="4" StreamBufferSize="262144" />

And here's hpl.log:

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Version 1.10 - s1E3330FF-539

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

Engine build ID 20101002081729



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

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Initializing Resources Module

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 Creating loader handlers 

 Creating resource managers

 Adding loaders to handlers 

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Initializing Graphics Module

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Init lowlevel graphics: 1440x900 bpp:32 fs:1 ms:0 gpufmt:2 cap:'Amnesia - The Dark Descent - Loading...' pos:(-1x-1)

 Setting video mode: 1440 x 900 - 32 bpp

 Init Glew...OK

 Setting up OpenGL

  Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

  Renderer: ATI Radeon X1600 OpenGL Engine

  Version: 2.0 ATI-1.6.24

  Max texture image units: 16

  Max texture coord units: 8

  Max user clip planes: 6

  Two sided stencil: 1

  Vertex Buffer Object: 1

  Anisotropic filtering: 1

  Max Anisotropic degree: 16

  Multisampling: 1

  Texture compression: 1

  Texture compression S3TC: 1

  Auto generate MipMaps: 1

  Render to texture: 1

  Max draw buffers: 4

  Max color render targets: 4

  Packed depth-stencil: 1

  Texture float: 1

  GLSL Version: 1.20

  ShaderModel 2: 1

  ShaderModel 3: 0

  ShaderModel 4: 0

  OGL ATIFragmentShader: 0

ATTENTION: System does not support const arrays in glsl!

Setting up G-Bugger: type: 0 texturenum: 3

 Adding engine materials

 Initializing DevIL

  Vendor String: Abysmal Software

  Version String: Developer's Image Library (DevIL) 1.6.8pre Aug 22 2010

  Version Number: 168

 Adding engine post effects

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Initializing Sound Module

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 Initializing OpenAL

  Available OpenAL devices:

   0. Built-in Output(OpenAL default)

  Trying to open device 'Built-in Output'... Success!

  Number of mono sources: 32

  Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each

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Initializing Game Module

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 Adding engine updates

 Initializing script functions

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User Initialization

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Game Running

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 -------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------

    Cache Loading: 1632 ms

  Entities: 436 ms

  Compilation: 2 ms

  Total: 2140 ms

  Meshes created: 26

  Bodies created: 5

 -------- Loading complete ---------

 Setting profile: 'Auros' Path: '/Users/rmharman/Library/Application Support/Frictional Games/Amnesia/Main/Auros/'

 -------- Loading map '00_rainy_hall.map' ---------

    Cache Loading: 2894 ms

  Entities: 3680 ms

  Compilation: 37 ms

  Total: 6831 ms

  Meshes created: 145

  Bodies created: 48

 -------- Loading complete ---------

 Saving main config.

 Saving user config.

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'spotthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'pointthunder_0'

ERROR: Could not find light 'ambthunder_0'

 -------- Loading map 'menu_bg.map' ---------

    Cache Loading: 920 ms

  Entities: 136 ms

  Compilation: 1 ms

  Total: 1069 ms

  Meshes created: 26

  Bodies created: 5

 -------- Loading complete ---------

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Statistics

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 Medium framerate: 23.533141

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User Exit

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 Saving main config.

 Saving user config.

 Deleting game modules.

   'LuxInputHandler'

   'LuxHelpFuncs'

   'LuxSaveHandler'

   'LuxScriptHandler'

   'LuxProgressLogHandler'

   'LuxMapHandler'

   'LuxMapHelper'

   'LuxPlayer'

   'LuxInsanityHandler'

   'LuxDebugHandler'

   'LuxEffectRenderer'

   'LuxMusicHandler'

   'LuxMusicHandler'

   'LuxEffectHandler'

   'LuxCompletionCountHandler'

   'LuxGlobalDataHandler'

   'LuxHintHandler'

   'LuxPostEffectHandler'

   'LuxPreMenu'

   'LuxDebugHandler'

   'LuxInventory'

   'LuxJournal'

   'LuxCredits'

   'LuxLoadScreenHandler'

 Deleting config files.

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Exiting Gui Module

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 Deleting all sets

 Deleting all skins

 Deleting all gfx elements

 Deleting all materials

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Exiting Generate Module

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Exiting Scene Module

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Exiting Input Module

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Exiting Sound Module

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Exiting Graphics Module

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Exiting Resources Module

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 Done with fonts

 Done with scripts

 Done with particles

 Done with sounds

 Done with meshes

 Done with materials

 Done with Gpu programs

 Done with images

 Destroyed all textures

 Done with sound entities

 Done with animations

 Done with ent files

 All resources deleted

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Exiting Physics Module

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Exiting System Module

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 Deleting game setup provided by user

- Deleting lowlevel stuff.

  Physics

  Sound

  Input

  Resources

  System

  Graphics

  Haptic

HPL Exit was successful!



|--Memory Manager Report-------------------------------|

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| No memory leaks detected. Memory left: 0

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Looking at the log, it kinda looks to me like a bunch of the files that describe lighting are either missing, or not in the directory where the program expects to find them. It has a bunch of lines of the form: "ERROR: Could not find light "name"

**rmharman** · 01-03-2011, 12:19 AM

In case anyone else comes into this thread with the same problem, here's how I solved it: make sure you're exited from the game and patched to 1.0.1 (which I already was), delete your main_settings.cfg and first_start_flag files so that the launcher will be able to completely recreate them, and then when you launch the game, hit the "Detect" button to have it choose settings for you, then launch away.

Thanks for your help, Urkle.