black screen/game not loading

[NightTwix]

since a few days i have this very annoying problem.

i start the game this way:
cd <installpath>/regnum
./rolauncher

worked fine ever since i played.
just in the past days the game doesnt start any more.

the launcher loades fine. i can login and press play.
then the game itself starts, but nothing more happens.
The game window appears but remains black. CPU time jumps to 100% (on one core)
but the usual "console" messages dont appear.

all i can do is a "killall -9 game".

Deleting the live-folder doesnt help.

I have a 2nd PC. So what i do each day is to copy the whole regnum folder over to my main PC. Then i can play again.
On the 2nd PC i dont have these problems, so it could be related to my machine.
on the other hand i dont really play much on the 2nd one.

I know there could be many sources of that problem, but i really dont know where to start looking or how to debug this.
I tried to strace the startup but the rolauncher spawns the game process so it detaches first and doesnt show anything.

any hints welcome

[tak]

Originally Posted by NightTwix

I tried to strace the startup but the rolauncher spawns the game process so it detaches first and doesnt show anything.

you can strace -f to follow forks, or use -p PID to connect to a running process if you start windowed.

I wouldn't get my hopes up though, atm i think the startup problems are the worst the game still has.
The forum is full with posts about them (the game still crashes on my laptop when starting, too).

Lets post some new crashlogs and hope for the best.

Cheers

EDIT: oh and maybe delete any .dir associated with regnum in your /home

[e30G]

The same just happened to me. I was playing fine a while ago then my ISP got disconnected. So I tried reloading the game after I got reconnected and now I am getting a black screen/

edit:
fixed it by reinstalling the game. I found my problem seemed to caused by the interruption of a downloading game file when my ISP went kapoot. It happened to me twice while re-downloading the resources needed to run the game.

[NightTwix]

i jsut crashed and have the black screen again

libs/libcore_client.so(_ZN10ClientBase14save_backtraceEv+0x7e) [0xa7db744e]
libs/libcore_client.so(_ZN10ClientBase12client_crashEi+0x17) [0xa7db77f7]
[0xa7f8e420]
/lib/libc.so.6 [0xa70b94c4]
/lib/libc.so.6(malloc+0x7e) [0xa70bb3be]
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6(_Znwj+0x29) [0xa7261429]
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6(_ZNSs4_Rep9_S_createEjjRKSaIcE+0x34) [0xa723b914]
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6 [0xa723cab5]
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.so.6(_ZNSsC1EPKcRKSaIcE+0x49) [0xa723cc69]
libs/libcommon_objects.so(_ZN16ActionableObject10run_actionEP7MessageP10ActionDataPKci+0x6ee) [0xa7d87ece]
libs/libcommon_objects.so(_ZN16ActionableObject11emit_actionEP7Message+0x69) [0xa7d89de9]
libs/libentity_system.so(_ZN6Entity22input_message_internalEP7Message+0xc8f) [0xa7586f0f]
libs/libentity_system.so(_ZN9LuaEntity22input_message_internalEP7Message+0x79) [0xa75b54d9]
libs/libentity_system.so(_ZN6Entity13input_messageEP7Message+0x22) [0xa75851b2]
libs/libentity_system.so(_ZN6Entity13input_messageEPKcP7Message+0x45) [0xa75854c5]
libs/libcore_client.so(_ZN8GameCore19camera_mouse_motionEbii+0x2d8) [0xa7dc0188]
libs/libcore_client.so(_ZN4sigc8internal10slot_call3INS_18bound_mem_functor3Iv8GameCorebiiEEvbiiE7call_itEPNS0_8slot_repERKbRKiSB_+0x43) [0xa7dc5383]
libs/libgui_extension.so(_ZN3GUI12CameraWidget21update_timer_callbackEv+0x1d5) [0xa7945695]
libs/libgui_extension.so(_ZNK4sigc15adaptor_functorINS_18bound_mem_functor0IvN3GUI12CameraWidgetEEEEclEv+0x26) [0xa794acf6]
libs/libgui_extension.so(_ZN4sigc8internal10slot_call0INS_18bound_mem_functor0IvN3GUI12CameraWidgetEEEvE7call_itEPNS0_8slot_repE+0x20) [0xa794ad20]
libs/libmisc.so(_ZNK15tev_accumulatorclIN4sigc8internal17slot_iterator_bufINS2_12signal_emit0IvS_EEvEEEEvT_S7_+0x90) [0xa74a7c30]
libs/libmisc.so(_ZN14TimerEventBase16time_reach_eventEv+0x13b) [0xa74a6f6b]
libs/libmisc.so(_ZN12CentralTimer16time_reach_eventEP14TimerEventBase+0x1d) [0xa749afed]
libs/libmisc.so(_ZN12CentralTimer6updateEv+0x429) [0xa749eff9]
libs/libcore_client.so(_ZN10ClientBase7iterateEv+0x39) [0xa7db75c9]
libs/libregnum_client.so(_ZN10GameClient7iterateEv+0x2c) [0xa7f4cdcc]
libs/libcore_client.so(_ZN8MainLoop7iterateEv+0x28) [0xa7dc7a38]
./game(main+0x47) [0x8048b67]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8) [0xa7069838]
./game(__gxx_personality_v0+0x61) [0x8048a81]

and the strace -f spits out millions of these lines (not that useful i suppose)

[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8757] nanosleep({0, 5001000}, NULL) = 0

[NeZZeR-N]

I have this problems to I use openSuSE 10.2 with nvidias official drivers and a GeForce 7600GT OC.

The only way to play again for me is to delete whole folder
(all data files whole live folder ALL) Then it works for a while (like a week) then I must reinstall again....

And I crash alot more than my friends....

[lochness42]

Today happened same thing to me. Using Ubuntu.