Patch crash

[webmob]

When i install the patch and i try to access a darwina lvl the game crashes i have a windows xp service pack 2,intel celeron cpu 2.60ghz and 256mb ram it works fine without the patch

[trickfred]

Try creating a new profile. If you can't get far enough into the game to make a new profile that way, you'll have to do it this way:

1] Open the directory where you have the game installed. Go into the Users directory.

2] Create a new directory, call it whatever, but remember what it was [I recommend Crash].

3] Go back to the game directory, open preferences.txt, go to the bottom, and change the line that says "UserProfile = NewUser" or whatever your old profile is, to "UserProfile = Crash" or whatever the new directory you created in 'Users' was.

Run the game. You'll be back at the beginning again, but hey, your crash problem will be solved.

[LLamaBoy]

Also you may want to zip up the problematic profile folder and email to Chris (chris at introversion.co.uk) for problem solving.

[xander]

Try changing the rendermode to something other than 2 (i.e. open up 'preferences.txt' and change the line that says rendermode (I think)). There was a problem with this earlier, though I thought that it had been fixed. At any rate, it may help.

xander

[Falling Guy]

yes, mine fixed. I just coppied my user account, and reinstalled the game and IMMEdIATELY installed the patch.

[Killa B]

if nothing else works, undo the patching.
delete or rename or copy the following both files to somewhere else:
language.dat
patch.dat

also you need to get back your old "darwinia.exe", wich should be on your darwinia cd in the folder "gamefiles".

but you should only do that, if your game ran w/o major problems before you patched it.

[webmob]

thanks but none of the fix it and where is the render mode thing in prefrences?

[Matt770]

I think this may help, as it fixed my problem....

Go into 'preferences.txt' and scroll down to the bottom. Change the 'RenderBuildingDetail = 1' to 'RenderBuildingDetail = 0'

Hope this helps!

[webmob]

i know its not the profile and i tried changing every render thing to 0 but nothing works and if i dont get the patch working i cant use some of the mods lilke sticken souls

[Cyberdyne]

If you bothered to read the changes.txt for the patch, you`d know about the new rendering modes.

You have to add the line to preferences.txt yourself if you want to change it.

from patch changes.txt:
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- There are 3 possible rendering modes for Darwinia's landscape, which can be set by the preferences variable 'RenderLandscapeMode':
- RenderLandscapeMode = 0 uses Vertex Arrays
- RenderLandscapeMode = 1 uses Display Lists (default in v1.0)
- RenderLandscapeMode = 2 uses Vertex Buffer Objects
The default has now be seen to 2 (Vertex Buffer Objects), which should be faster in most cases than Display Lists. If VBO support isn't detected, we fall back to display lists.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Add this line to preferences.txt:
RenderLandscapeMode = 1

Try the other modes too. If it crashes, restart windows, change the rendermode again and try again. Post back whether it works or not with your graphics card and sound card details, incase someone else has similar spec/problems.

[webmob]

its fixed thanks cyberdyne and my f**cking laptop does not tell me the graphic or sound card data