Trouble loading Wesnoth on a windows machine.

J.C.D. · Post by **J.C.D.** » December 4th, 2005, 12:49 am

Greetings. I downloaded the latest version of Wesnoth today, through sourceforge via the Wesnoth website. The installation went smoothly, but upon attempting to run it, a black screen appears with the stylized mouse cursor hovering in the top left hand corner. However, the game freezes before going any further. I also attempted running the game out of fullscreen mode, to the same effect. The computer that i'm running this on is adequate enough to play DOOM III smoothly, so I doubt it's a matter of system requirements. It's a windows machine.

Incidentally, when I attempt to ctrl+alt+del and close the program, the box appears in a higher resolution that I normally run my computer in. I.E, the box appears to be much smaller than it normally is.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Emmanovi · Post by **Emmanovi** » December 4th, 2005, 9:50 am

It sounds like Wesnoth is trying to load in a resolution higher than you monitor likes much.... (to me)

What is your normal resolution?

J.C.D · Post by **J.C.D** » December 4th, 2005, 10:01 am

I change it often, depending on what applications I am running. Is there an optimal resolution for playing the game? If so, and it is a problem between my monitor and the game itself, is there a way to resolve it short of using another monitor?

kotzpogi · Post by **kotzpogi** » December 4th, 2005, 10:18 am

upon attempting to run it, a black screen appears with the stylized mouse cursor hovering in the top left hand corner

this thing always happens,, it also happens to our pc,,

and i dont know if his will help,, try downloading it again and reinstall it,,

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » December 4th, 2005, 2:01 pm

Could you copy here things from stderr.txt file? (it's in wesnoth directory)

J.C.D. · Post by **J.C.D.** » December 4th, 2005, 9:29 pm

Could you copy here things from stderr.txt file? (it's in wesnoth directory)

Battle for Wesnoth v1.0.2
Started on Sun Jan 17 18:38:48 1999

started game: 54
Checking video mode: 1024x768x32...
32
setting mode to 1024x768x32
no valid cache found. Writing cache to 'C:/Program Files/Wesnoth/userdata/cache/game.cfg-cache-v1.0.2-MEDIUM-NORMAL'

[The date is incorrect because I had changed it to perform an unrelated function.]

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » December 5th, 2005, 1:36 pm

Nothing more?

J.C.D · Post by **J.C.D** » December 6th, 2005, 2:43 am

No, that's the complete file. Does it perhaps have something to do with the cache file not being found?

Post by VS » December 6th, 2005, 9:41 am

Do you as user have "write" permission for that folder?

Tomsik · Post by **Tomsik** » December 6th, 2005, 10:25 am

J.C.D wrote:Does it perhaps have something to do with the cache file not being found?

I don't think so.

Could you copy things from stdout.txt too?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » December 6th, 2005, 11:15 pm

Could you copy things from stdout.txt too?

It's completely empty.