Lobby works but Spring Game wont start all the way

[Anarchianbedlam]

Hey there, I just downloaded the game and installed it on my computer. (standard installation) and while the game lobby works perfectly, the game itself will not work on my computer for some reason. I enter a game, download the map and when the game starts (whether its the 'im ready' box or clicking start or the forcestart vote) the spring engine will open and i will see a start up title screen with a picture of gameplay as background saying things like "loading server" and "loading map" etc, but when it gets to "creating unit textures" the game stops, the game-window(screen) goes blank and i get an error message from windows saying that "windows is checking for a solution to this problem" and then that "spring.exe has stopped working" and that windows will close the application and notify me if there is a solution.

Im using a 1 year old Asus laptop running a 64-bit vista. I tried setting the graphics settings for the game to "low" and "very low". And i checked to make sure that I had all the 32-bit program conversion .dlls. I cant think of anything else.

spring version 0.82.6.1
Graphics card: Mobile Intel(R)4 series Express Chipset family(if im reading this right)

Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated guys. :) thanks in advance for your time.

[hoijui]

please attach infolog.txt to your forum post.
the intel GFX is very likely to be the problem though :/
usually it is possible to get the game running though (not great of course), by using the right driver and setting some other stuff.. i don't know the details there, but there are some instructions in the FAQ and in various threads around here.

[Anarchianbedlam]

Gah, ive already looked at the FAQ. guess ill have to do some more digging

[Satirik]

please attach infolog.txt to your forum post.

[slogic]

And screenshot of SpringSettings with activated "Render quality/Video mode" tab.

[Anarchianbedlam]

Are these the files?

spring.jpg

(123.33 KiB) Downloaded 2 times

infolog.txt

(5.65 KiB) Downloaded 28 times

And thanks again :)

[slogic]

Turn off lua shaders support. Try again. If no changes then update intel drivers to the latest version. :)

[Anarchianbedlam]

:/ thanks, but ive already tried that. Updating the drivers was the first thing i did. and I know the picture shows the Lau settings enabled, but I tested the game with them disabled before. (i was trying every setting i could think of) and to no avail.

[slogic]

Reinstall Spring outside of "Program Files" then. For sure.

[hoijui]

[ 0] SDL: 1.2.10
[ 0] GL: 2.0.0 - Build 7.15.10.1666
[ 0] GL: Intel
[ 0] GL: Intel Cantiga
[ 0] GLSL: 1.10 - Intel Build 7.15.10.1666
[ 0] GLEW: 1.5.4

[ 0] Spring 0.82.6.1 (0.82.6.1) has crashed.
[ 0] Exception: Access violation (0xc0000005)
[ 0] Exception Address: 0x05573ed8

[ 0] 0x05570000 ig4dev32

this means, the crash happens in the GFX driver.
i remember having read that there are version 8.* of intel drivers around.. they do not exist for all cards?

never heard of "Intel Cantiga" :/

if it is no notebook, get a cheap nvidia card, if you can.

[Anarchianbedlam]

Well slap my ass and call me sally. it works now.

I had downloaded drivers for my computer before that i thought were the latest version. I had even downloaded several programs that supposedly "automatically detect and updates your drivers" and they all said it was fine. I went to the intel website (where i had gotten the other drivers) and looked more thoroughly. I finally found another driver and this time it seems to work. I can now play BA and be absolutely terrible at it. ;D

Thanks again guys for all the support. See you in the game