Game won't start.

[ruijormar]

I got Uplink today as a part of the Humble Introversion Bundle. When i try to run it, it will pop up on the task bar, change the resolution and change the mouse cursor, but won't do anything else. I then have to ctrl+alt+del and go terminate the process in the Task Manager using the keyboard, since it won't let me click with the mouse on the task manager window. Can anyone help? I'm running on Vista 32-bit btw.

[Mas Tnega]

Could you make a shortcut to Uplink, change the target to something like:

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"C:\Program Files\Uplink\uplink.exe" -graphics_fullscreen

And post what happens?


(Obviously, change C:\Program Files\etc to the actual location of your game)

[ruijormar]

I added "-graphics_fullscreen" to the Uplink launch options on steam, since if i made a shortcut, it would give me the missing Steam.dll file, then started the game. It did pretty much the same i described in the initial post, except it ran in windowed mode and let me use my mouse to close it.

[frenchfrog]

I'm guessing some OpenGL problems.

Do you run the latest graphic driver provided directly from your video card manufacturer (ASUS, Gigabyte, ...) or even better chipset manufacturer (ATI/AMD, nVidia, ...)? (forget about Microsoft Windows Update drivers)


Here's a trick to turn OpenGL software rendering:

Check in your uplink directory if there is a opengl32.dll.bak file, if there is, simply copy that file and rename to opengl32.dll, this will turn software rendering on.

Else download the 1.55 Uplink patch from the patch page.

Download and install the latest version of 7-Zip (a very safe open source archive manager).

Then extract the 1.55 patch with the help of 7-Zip to get the opengl32.dll.bak file then simply copy that file and rename to opengl32.dll, this will turn software rendering on.

[ruijormar]

Check in your uplink directory if there is a opengl32.dll.bak file, if there is, simply copy that file and rename to opengl32.dll, this will turn software rendering on.

I tried that, it's still giving me the same problem. I'm running the latest drivers for my graphics card.

[frenchfrog]

Post the debug.log located in the users sub-directory?

[ruijormar]

I opened that file, there's nothing in it...

[frenchfrog]

Try the standalone demo and install it outside Program Files (ex: c:\games\uplink_demo)?

And retry putting the opengl32.dll file at the same place as the uplink.exe

[ruijormar]

Same problem...

[frenchfrog]

I'm out of idea... are the other IV games working fine?

[ruijormar]

Yep, everything else is running fine.