FOnline: Reloaded

General => Game Help => Topic started by: Spidercat on October 11, 2013, 12:55:49 am

Title: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: Spidercat on October 11, 2013, 12:55:49 am

I played quite a bit of 2238, so I am somewhat familiar with how this is supposed to work.

I unzipped the full client, but when I open the foline.exe or folinegl.exe I just get a grey screen for less than a second.  It fails to start.

If anyone has had this same problem, or if a dev can help out I would be super grateful.  I can't figure what to do next.

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: S.T.A.L.K.E.R on October 11, 2013, 12:57:42 am

Did you set your CRITTER and MASTER data paths?

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: Spidercat on October 11, 2013, 01:12:29 am

At fist I did out of habit, and it did not work.  Although I guess I should point out that the grey screen hung for a while the first time I tried.  It is only every time after that I have gotten the result described in my original post.

My buddy says his client is running like a top, and all he did was open the foline.exe after unzipping.  It is my understanding that those files, or the equivalent, are provided in the full client download.

But I tried again anyway, same result.

Thanks for the quick response anyway stalker.  Good to see the same folks are still around.

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: joopndufus on October 11, 2013, 03:08:45 am

spidercat!  SPIDERCAT!

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: Spidercat on October 11, 2013, 03:36:37 am

"spidercat!  SPIDERCAT!"

Indeed.

I can't wait to get this up and running so we can party again.  : )

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: MickM on October 11, 2013, 07:28:19 am

Can you take a look at Fonline.log for error details?

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: Strike on October 11, 2013, 08:43:53 am

Tell us first what OS your computer use? :D

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: Spidercat on October 11, 2013, 09:10:57 am

"Can you take a look at Fonline.log for error details?"

I am not much of a technophile, but surprisingly I thought of that.  Unfotunatly was unable to locate it.  Tips here are appreciated.

"Tell us first what OS your computer use?"

In retrospect, clearly I should have just posted this from the beginning.  I use Windows 7 (ultimate). 

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: MickM on October 11, 2013, 09:49:13 am

Quote from: Spidercat on October 11, 2013, 09:10:57 am

I am not much of a technophile, but surprisingly I thought of that.  Unfotunatly was unable to locate it.  Tips here are appreciated.

The same folder as fonline.exe

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: paco on October 11, 2013, 10:24:21 am

Which client are you trying to run? DirectX (FOnline.exe) or OpenGL (FOnlineGL.exe)?

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: Pugna on October 11, 2013, 01:07:51 pm

Had a similar problem at the beggining. In my case I found that I need a directx 3D dll to make fonline work ( d3dx9_42.dll ) and put in the game folder.

Title: Re: Unable to get client to work.
Post by: paco on October 11, 2013, 03:08:31 pm

^ Or actually install an up-to-date redistributable package of DirectX.