VDRIFT Doesnt start in my UBUNTU 8.10

[katamari]

I compiled all packets vdrift' need successfully, and I'have vdrift executable in build directory,as root, but when I start the game, the window is closed automatically. what can I do? sorry for my english, I need some advice to solve this problem.THANKS.

My machine is a netbook , msi wind u100, the vga is an integrated intel at 1024x600 resolution.

[joevenzon]

Intel cards don't work very well with VDrift. You may be able to get the game to run by editing ~/.vdrift/VDrift.config and changing the line with shaders to shaders=off

[portets]

i'm having the same problem. (kubuntu 9.04)
i followed the wiki and when i run the executable, it opens a black window and closes in less than a second.
i have a geforce 9600

[joevenzon]

Please run the game from the command line and post the last few lines of the console output.

[portets]

it just says "command not found".

i've tried building with options arch=a64 and release=1 in every possible combination. i even tried checking out the source to build instead of a release.

[joevenzon]

I don't quite understand, you've built it with different options and from source, but you can't run it from the command line?

Until we figure that out, there's also a log file written to ~/.vdrift/log.txt; it won't have some important data but if you paste it here there might be enough to figure it out.

[portets]

okay, i got it to work by putting sudo in front of every command in the compiling wiki. but now i can only run it from the terminal. still exits when i launch it graphically.

and i can't get the shaders to load in windows or linux.

[joevenzon]

Try to enable shaders and run vdrift from the command line, let it crash, and then post the console output here.

Also, it sounds like the version that you installed with your package manager is crashing; can you use your desktop environment's menu editor to see where the crashing vdrift is located, then run that from the command line, and post the results here?

[portets]

INFO: Multi-processor system detected. Run with -multithreaded argument to enable multithreading (EXPERIMENTAL).
INFO: Starting VDrift: development-full, Version: , O/S: Unix-like
INFO: Home directory: /home/myname
INFO: Settings file: /home/myname/.vdrift/VDrift.config
INFO: Data directory: data
INFO: Log file: /home/myname/.vdrift/log.txt
INFO: SDL initialization successful
INFO: SDL video query was successful
INFO: Disabling antialiasing
INFO: Display change was successful: 800x600x32 24z fullscreen=0
INFO: Video card information:
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce 9600M GS/PCI/SSE2
Version: 3.0.0 NVIDIA 180.51
Maximum texture size: 8192
Using GLEW 1.5.0
INFO: Loaded shader package simple
INFO: Loaded shader package less_simple
INFO: ----- Start Shader Compile Log for data/shaders/full/fragment.glsl -----
INFO: 0(397) : error C1038: declaration of "shadowcoords" conflicts with previous declaration at 0(232)
0(397) : error C1060: incompatible types in initialization
0(397) : error C1056: invalid initialization

INFO: ----- End Shader Compile Log -----
INFO: ----- Start Shader Link Log for data/shaders/full/vertex.glsl and data/shaders/full/fragment.glsl -----
INFO: Fragment info
-------------
0(397) : error C1038: declaration of "shadowcoords" conflicts with previous declaration at 0(232)
0(397) : error C1060: incompatible types in initialization
0(397) : error C1056: invalid initialization

INFO: ----- End Shader Link Log -----
ERROR: Shader compilation failure: data/shaders/full/vertex.glsl and data/shaders/full/fragment.glsl
ERROR: Disabling shaders due to shader loading error
INFO: Maximum anisotropy: 16
INFO: 0 joysticks found.
INFO: Loading car controls from: /home/myname/.vdrift/controls.config
INFO: Sound initialization information:
INFO: Obtained audio device:
Frequency: 44100
Format: 32784
Bits per sample: 16
Channels: 2
Silence: 0
Samples: 940
Size: 3760
Sound initialization successful
INFO: Loaded fonts successfully
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/AutoX: unknown widget-04 type: designer, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/Designer: unknown widget-01 type: designer, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/InGameJoystickCalibrate: unknown widget-03 type: calibrate, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/InGameJoystickCalibrate: unknown hook reference to InGameJoystickCalibration
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/JoystickCalibrate: unknown widget-03 type: calibrate, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/JoystickCalibrate: unknown hook reference to JoystickCalibration
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/NetworkGame: unknown widget-06 type: textbox, ignoring
ERROR: data/skins/simple/menus/NetworkGame: unknown widget-07 type: textbox, ignoring
INFO: Loaded GUI successfully
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
ERROR: Error setting GUI option "game.number_of_laps" to GAME value "0"
INFO: Got quit message from GUI. Shutting down...
INFO: Shutting down...
INFO: Exiting


tried using different drivers, nothing. oh, when i first installed it in vista, the shaders worked but it looked ugly at 16 bit color. changed it to 32 and no shaders since. even upon reinstalling.
and i wouldn't think it would have to do with my gpu being a mobile series

[joevenzon]

Thanks for posting that! It looks like the bug is happening when you set lighting quality to Ultra -- if you set it back to normal (if you erase ~/.vdrift/VDrift.config it'll set all the options back to default) shaders should work. Don't worry, the "Ultra" lighting mode is pretty lame and you aren't missing much. But if you really want to try it, I fixed the bug in rev 409 of the data repository (if you have the data repo checked out with svn, go to it and do "svn update").

[portets]

thank you, thank you. i feel a little dumb. haha.
sorry for any inconveniences