installed vdrift into xp but game will not launch [SOLVED]

[jamesb1957]

Hi:

Since I am new to open source and its programing please be patient.I installed the latest version of vdrift for windows xp(2010-06-30)but when I go to play it the only thing that comes up is the ms dos window and it is blank then it disappears.Nothing happens after that.Below is the information for my computer and operating system.

XP home edition with SP3
Intel Celeron 2.8 Ghz
1.25 MB memory
Nvidea GeForce FX 5500 256 mb memory ver. 6.14.0011.7519(English)

At looking at other similar post here is the stduot file,

INFO: Starting VDrift: 2010-06-30-full, Version: , O/S: Windows
INFO: Home directory: C:\Documents and Settings\James
INFO: Settings file: C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Games\VDrift/VDrift.config (does not exist, will be created)
INFO: Data directory: data
INFO: Log file: C:\Documents and Settings\James\My Documents\My Games\VDrift/log.txt
INFO: The last VDrift startup was unsuccessful.
Settings have been set to failsafe defaults.
Your original VDrift.config file was backed up to VDrift.config.backup
INFO: SDL initialization successful
INFO: SDL video query was successful
INFO: Disabling antialiasing
INFO: Display change was successful: 800x600x16 16z fullscreen=0
INFO: Video card information:
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: GeForce FX 5500/PCI/SSE2
Version: 2.1.2
Maximum texture size: 4096
Maximum varying floats: 32
Using GLEW 1.5.4
INFO: Your video card doesn't support framebuffer objects. Disabling shaders.

In the stderr file there is nothing.

Any Suggestions

Thanks Jim

[k070197]

I'm also having the same problem. When I click on the exe file, a DOS window shows, after it, SDL simulator window shows but it closes and nothing happens. The Log file is same as above

[joevenzon]

Hum, the stderr.txt usually has the information about why it failed to start up. Without more information, I'm stumped. If you have the time/bandwidth you could try an older version:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdrift/f...e/download

[NaN]

Might be the mipmap issue, try: http://www.file-upload.net/download-2674...t.zip.html

[unambiguously]

I experience the same problem, I have it installed on XP SP3 as well. It is an iMac with Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz, 4 GB of RAM (XP does not use it all though) and an ATI HD 2600 Pro 256 MB.

Do the older versions work? Or should I try on Mac OS X or Ubuntu?

stderr.txt is empty, here is stdout.txt:

Code:

INFO: Starting VDrift: 2010-06-30-full, Version: , O/S: Windows
INFO: Home directory: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Mr Iteranium
INFO: Settings file: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Mr Iteranium\My Documents\My Games\VDrift/VDrift.config (does not exist, will be created)
INFO: Data directory: data
INFO: Log file: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Mr Iteranium\My Documents\My Games\VDrift/log.txt
INFO: The last VDrift startup was unsuccessful.
      Settings have been set to failsafe defaults.
      Your original VDrift.config file was backed up to VDrift.config.backup
INFO: SDL initialization successful
INFO: SDL video query was successful
INFO: Disabling antialiasing
INFO: Display change was successful: 800x600x16 16z fullscreen=0
INFO: Video card information:
      Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
      Renderer: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT
      Version: 2.1.7273 Release
      Maximum texture size: 8192
      Maximum varying floats: 68
      Using GLEW 1.5.4
INFO: Your video card doesn't support framebuffer objects.  Disabling shaders.

[joevenzon]

Try this version:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-2674...t.zip.html

[jamesb1957]

Thanks for the help, I haven't tried the older version yet.I have got other things going on so it may not happen for a while.