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  • Kadoles
    Apprentice
    • Feb 2008
    • 58

    angband-r988

    when i start angband it hangs, about an hour later, it will appear on my screen.

    I never had this problem before but now it happens with 3.09b as well but 3.05 works...

    any suggestions?

    running vista
    Last edited by Kadoles; August 24, 2008, 22:29.
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  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9633

    #2
    Originally posted by Kadoles
    any suggestions?

    running vista
    I think you've got the answer right there
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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    • rdermyer
      Apprentice
      • Jul 2007
      • 79

      #3
      it's running fine in OSX. Plus, the high scores don't keep writing gibberish anymore. I think.

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      • Kadoles
        Apprentice
        • Feb 2008
        • 58

        #4
        Originally posted by Nick
        I think you've got the answer right there
        your probably right... so what can i do about it? changing os's really isnt an option. If I ever pick up an old pc real cheap, i'll probably run some unix based os on it but I can't really do that to my only box right now. 3.09b used to work but now it doesn't. Could a recent win update cause this problem? Could it have anything to do with the borg running on 3.05?

        anyone else on vista having these problems?
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        • APWhite
          Adept
          • Jul 2007
          • 244

          #5
          Originally posted by Kadoles
          anyone else on vista having these problems?

          good thing you didn't ask "anyone else on vista having problems? then you would have been flooded.

          I had vista, came on the cheap machine from WalMart. I ended up reformatting the drive and sticking XP on it. Took a while to get all the drivers and such. Boy was it worth it.
          St George Chiropractor
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          • zaimoni
            Knight
            • Apr 2007
            • 590

            #6
            Originally posted by Kadoles
            your probably right... so what can i do about it
            It's what I can do about it.

            The current win-main.c has some suspected font-related resource leakage (that slows down startup by a factor of at least five, in addition to other problems like this), but my first patch for this backfired against a difference between V3.0.6 win-main.c and V3.0.9b (the patch works against my own variant, but reintroduces a rather ugly Vista-only font bug on V3.0.9b).

            It looks like I'll have to revise the patch to not backfire. This may be a while (I'm at a bad point in my work loading).
            Zaiband: end the "I shouldn't have survived that" experience. V3.0.6 fork on Hg.
            Zaiband 3.0.10 ETA Mar. 7 2011 (Yes, schedule slipped. Latest testing indicates not enough assert() calls to allow release.)
            Z.C++: pre-alpha C/C++ compiler system (usable preprocessor). Also on Hg. Z.C++ 0.0.10 ETA December 31 2011

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            • Kadoles
              Apprentice
              • Feb 2008
              • 58

              #7
              I installed about 6 windows updates(for some reason the auto update was not turned on), rebooted my computer 3 times, re-download r988,manually copied the angband.ini from 3.05 into r988, uninstalled the borg and all previous versions of angband, and now everything works fine. Not sure if which of the above actually fixed it but everything looks good. It takes a few seconds to load but its not that noticeable.

              It was a bit frustrating to watch my wife play on her computer, running win XP, and me not be able to play on mine.

              Looks like tonight we can go back to our competitions.
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              • PowerWyrm
                Prophet
                • Apr 2008
                • 2986

                #8
                Not a Vista problem... XP here and 3.0.9 won't launch.
                3.0.6 works fine.
                PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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                • ChodTheWacko
                  Adept
                  • Jul 2007
                  • 155

                  #9
                  Try killing programs or something and see if one is blocking them.

                  I know on my XP machine, angband doesn't start up until I close all my dos
                  prompt windows. It's rather bizarre.

                  - Frank

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