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Problem with achievements menu in-game

Postby Ghadzoeux » Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:17 pm

Hello,

I have the steam version of Multiwinia and since latest patch, each time I try to enter the achievements menu, I get a Windows error message "Failed to load texture Genocide" and the game crashes back to Windows.

On XP SP3 up to date, GeForce 9600GT, 2Gb Ram, Core 2 Duo E6300.
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:03 pm

Confirmed. Adding Genocide.bmp to the textures folder does not help, and that's as far as my fixing attempts went; I coudn't find any other achievement textures. So don't press the Acievements menu entry :)
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Postby Ghadzoeux » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:17 pm

I have this in the blackbox.txt :

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= BLACK BOX REPORT =
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Multiwinia steam.1.1.0 built Oct 14 2008
Date 18:14, 15/10/2008

ERROR : 'Failed to load texture Genocide'

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= STACKTRACE =
=========================

retAddress = 0041CA7B
retAddress = 00060801
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Postby TidiusFF » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:48 pm

It happend to me too one time. The second time, the menu works perfectly...
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Postby ynbniar » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:15 am

TidiusFF wrote:It happend to me too one time. The second time, the menu works perfectly...


Confirmed...only happens the first time...works every time after that.

Also...

Hoarder and Dominator icons appear to be different from STEAM.
Hoarder is a big "A" and Dominator is a turret. In STEAM they are statues and spawn respectively.
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Postby elDiablo » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:38 am

This is caused by the steam cache file for Multiwinia stuffs not having downloaded the file yet. It's a bit of bad code on my part as I should wait until the steam API signals that the image is ready, but (strangely enough), it never happened while I was testing =/

Sorry about this, it shall be fixed!
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Postby The GoldFish » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:18 pm

I'm not trying to say it's not that, but I mean, the error seems odd to be because, well, here's a similar error from Darwinia;

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ERROR   : 'Failed to load texture textures/clouds.bmp'


On that you can see a path and a file extention. Try putting a file called "Genocide" in the data folder, those people whom can check. Anyway, JUST SEEMS ODD TO ME is all!
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Postby elDiablo » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:32 pm

I'm not sure how much I can say about the Steam API (as I really don't know what's public knowledge, and nor do I have time to check really :(), but this is definitely the problem. The error occurs as the texture isn't found in our resource system. And it's not found in the resource system due to the Steam caching of achievement images. It is completely my fault for putting a check in the wrong place, and will be fixed in the next patch.
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Postby fredthedeadhead » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:32 pm

This still isn't working for me, even after I've opened it more than once. The Genocide texture keeps failing to load..

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=   BLACK BOX REPORT    =
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Multiwinia steam.1.1.0 built Oct 14 2008
Date 20:28, 16/10/2008

ERROR : 'Failed to load texture Genocide'

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=      STACKTRACE       =
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retAddress = 0041CA7B
retAddress = 00060011
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Postby RabidZombie » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:40 pm

Have you tried verifying Multiwinia's GCFs?

(Right click game in games list>Properties>Local Files>Verify Integrity)
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Postby fredthedeadhead » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:44 pm

RabidZombie wrote:Have you tried verifying Multiwinia's GCFs?

(Right click game in games list>Properties>Local Files>Verify Integrity)


It still crashes, same Genocide texture.
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Postby elDiablo » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:18 am

Are you running under Vista as a non-administrator account? bert seems to get constant crashes with this under these conditions, even after reinstalling...
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Postby bert_the_turtle » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:16 pm

Except that I'm on XP, not Vista.
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Postby elDiablo » Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:18 pm

Well fine then! Be like that!
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Postby fredthedeadhead » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:15 pm

I'm on Windows XP Pro, on an administrator account.

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