OS X troubles

[Mercanis]

I am having trouble running the demo on an Apple computer. I run the application, the screen goes black for a second, and then it cuts right back to my desktop. My laptop is no powerhouse, but I wasn't expecting to get cut short this early. I can run Warcraft III on max settings and was hoping to at least run this game on minimum settings. What's up?

Specs:
OS X 10.4.8
1.2 GHz
256MB RAM
iBook G4

[Johan K]

Can't say what's wrong without some more info. Try running it from the terminal and see what it says. Start Dominions 3 with this command for max debug output (-dd = exrta debug info):

Dominons3.app/Contents/MacOS/dom3 -dd

Maybe I got something wrong there, but I'm sure you can correct my typos.

[Mercanis]

Thanks for the -dd argument. Here's the output I got after the program launched and then immediately shut down:

-------------------------
----- DOMINIONS ---------
-------------------------

Version version 3.00 (demo) (300)dbglevel 2 m68k_endian
datapath='.'
confpath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3'
savepath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3/savedgames'
modpath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3/mods'
temppath='/tmp/dominions3_26342'
-- InitGLStuff --
Init OpenGL extensions (Extensions are disabled)
Renderer (ATI Radeon 9200 OpenGL Engine)
Vendor (ATI Technologies Inc.)
Version (1.3 ATI-1.4.18)
supported_ARB_vertex_buffer_object = 0
supported_ARB_multitexture = 0
supported_EXT_texture_env_combine = 0
supported_SGIS_generate_mipmap = 0
supported_ARB_texture_compression = 0
supported_GLX_SGI_swap_control = 0
domdata_path = .
Max texture size = 2048
CreateTexture ./guiborder2.tga alpha 6
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
N?got gick fel!
myloadmalloc: can't open ./guiborder2.tga
flushopengl
mem ok
DeinitPrint
Abort trap

[Johan K]

Looks like it can't find guiborder2.tga

Doing a "ls Dominons3.app/Contents/Resources/*.tga" should show you that file or something is wrong. Maybe you started it from the wrong directory? You can't start it with "./dom3".

[Mercanis]

ls Dominions\ 3\ demo.app/Contents/Resources/*.tga

Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/background1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/dustsky1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/expl_white.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guibar.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guiborder1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guiborder2.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guiborderthin.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guihbar.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/guihead.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/mapbg.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/poisonsky1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/skybox1.tga
Dominions 3 demo.app/Contents/Resources/tile.tga



As you can see, I think everything is there...

[Mercanis]

bump

Other specs can be found here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2123

Why, O, why won't it run at all?

[Evil Dave]

Mercanis said:
Thanks for the -dd argument. Here's the output I got after the program launched and then immediately shut down:

-------------------------
----- DOMINIONS ---------
-------------------------

Version version 3.00 (demo) (300)dbglevel 2 m68k_endian
datapath='.'
confpath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3'
savepath='/Users/Mysterio/dominions3/savedgames'
...

FWIW, while my copy runs fine from the icon, to start it from the command line, I need to be in Dominions3.app/Contents/Resources and then start the program with ../MacOS/Dominions3

Edit: and if I try to start it from anywhere else, I get the same message you do.

My guess is that datapath should be set to a more useful value than the current directory, but I don't know where that's set.

[Johan K]

Have you renamed the application? It won't work properly if you rename it.

[Mercanis]

Johan K said:
Have you renamed the application? It won't work properly if you rename it.

And that was all there was too it. I removed the spaces I put in the file. From "Dominions 3 demo" to "Dominions3demo" and it all works great now.

BLRAGH! Thank you, one and all!