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Spidercat

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Unable to get client to work.
« 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.

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2013, 12:57:42 am »
Did you set your CRITTER and MASTER data paths?

Spidercat

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2013, 03:08:45 am »
spidercat!  SPIDERCAT!

Spidercat

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #4 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.  : )

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2013, 07:28:19 am »
Can you take a look at Fonline.log for error details?

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2013, 08:43:53 am »
Tell us first what OS your computer use? :D

Spidercat

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #7 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). 

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2013, 09:49:13 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

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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2013, 10:24:21 am »
Which client are you trying to run? DirectX (FOnline.exe) or OpenGL (FOnlineGL.exe)?
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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Unable to get client to work.
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2013, 03:08:31 pm »
^ Or actually install an up-to-date redistributable package of DirectX.
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