Troubleshooting: Difference between revisions

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Mac

The Mac release has a few issues, check out the following :

OmniGroup's native port of Oni to Mac OS X
PC vs Macs (e.g. PC-only features missing from the Mac build)

PC

There are a lot of reasons why the PC version of Oni can co completely crazy. The single most common symptom is that Oni's window will go blank, and in the middle of your screen you'll have

(There are other crash messages, but I'll detail them later : if you do something and get another crash message than that one, just don't do it.)

There are several occasions on which Oni exits with such a message, with a more or less good reason to do so. However, when it "blam"s at startup and doesn't let you play the game, that's a bit annoying. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happens with an out-of-the box installation of Oni on recent PC rigs. Why does that "Blam" happen? (and why does any "blam" happen?) And, more important, what do we do about it?

HERE YOU GO

For any other problem, see below.

Other problems

Texturing

There are several degrees of severity (from crappy textures to ugly textures to OMFG). That's always a driver issue.

Old drivers

Try and get a recent driver for your GFX card (upgrade to Catalyst if you have an ATI, etc)

New drivers

Sometimes, Oni is uncompatible with modern stuff. Try and get a really old driver, then :)

Major lag

Power management

This can be a problem on notebooks. Under certain conditions, the performance of the computer will decrease dramatically, for example :

if you run on battery power
if you let the computer overheat

Driver issue

Same as "texturing", see above.

Widescreen

Not really a problem, but it can be a bit annoying when your ONI window gets auto-stretched to fit a 16:10 screen.

Solution: Run ONI with the -noswitch command line argument. Oni then runs in a "window" in the upper left corner of your screen, with the resolution selected in Options.; If you want that window centered with a black background behind it, use OniWindowMover.

Game plays funny

For example, you may run Oni for the first time, and then there's this room with a data console on this side and one on the other (nothing happens when you activate them), a window and a door on the other side... and an invisible wall in the middle of the room that doesn't let you through to where the door is, and that you can do nothing about. What the... LET ME OUT!!!

That's not a sick puzzle... just screwed-up (or absent) level logic.

I don't know where you got your copy of Oni, but your installation folder (say, "Oni") should contain another one called GameDataFolder, and in this one, there should be another one called IGMD.

That's where the level logic is defined, level per level. If the contents of this folder is missing or corrupt, nothing interesting will ever happen :)

So you may want to :

check for that folder in your installation... and give me a copy. I'm just curious about what happened to it.
download that one (PC) or that one (Mac) and unzip it into GameDataFolder.

It should work.

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-==Blam! Oni crashed==
+==Mac==
-Damn! The best I can do for now is a link to a [http://mukade.bungie.org/cgi-bin/mukade/ikonboard.cgi?s=661fdaa3257276bc287e47d0eddaa916;act=ST;f=2;t=91 very useful thread] on Oni Central Forum
+The Mac release has a few issues, check out the following :
+*OmniGroup's native port of Oni to Mac OS X
+*[[PC vs Mac|PC vs Macs]] (e.g. PC-only features missing from the Mac build)
-And to [http://script10000.oni2.net/patches.html Script10K's page].
-===Patches for Win XP===
+----
-...
+==PC==
+There are a lot of reasons why the PC version of Oni can co completely crazy.
+The single most common symptom is that Oni's window will go blank, and in the middle of your screen you'll have
+{|align=center
+|http://geyser.oni2.net/blam/Blam.png
+|}
+(There are other crash messages, but I'll detail them later : if you do something and get ''another'' crash message than that one, just don't do it.)
-===Other patches===
+There are several occasions on which Oni exits with such a message, with a more or less good reason to do so.
-...
+However, when it "blam"s at startup and doesn't let you play the game, that's a bit annoying.
+Unfortunately, that's exactly what happens with an out-of-the box installation of Oni on recent PC rigs.
+Why does that "Blam" happen? (and why does ''any'' "blam" happen?) And, more important, what do we do about it?
-===Nvidia cards...===
+[[Troubleshooting/Blam|HERE YOU GO]]
-They have a special issue with OpenGL (solution submitted by LouisRouet) :
-*The problem tends to be that these Nvidia cards run too many OpenGL extensions for the old OpenGL games.
-*You need to create a new profile in your 'application profiles' specifically for Oni<br>(go display control panel > settings > advanced > [graphics card name] tab > performance and quality settings).
-*Then select the Medal of Honor active profile, where it says modify profile you can save a new copy ... as say "Oni"
-*Then you will note that one of the options for this profile is that the extension limit is on - THIS is the important one (ensure that it is ON).
-*Apply this profile. Then click the modify profile button again and select modify..
-*Deselect all the MOH apps and then browse to find your Oni app and select it (remember that it has to be ticked) and press OK.
-*Now apply this profile, and hopefully Oni now works
-===Buffer overflow===
+For any other problem, see below.
-====Recorded movie buffer====
-*See [[Customizing/Binding#What you should be careful about | here]] for details.
-====Debug log buffers====
-*Don't use the '''-debugfiles''' [[Customizing#Command-line arguments |command line argument]] : that dumps extra debug files which may cause an overflow
-*You can't disable the default debug logs ('''debugger.txt''' and '''startup.txt''') : '''startup.txt''' is the one causing the standard "Blam!" at startup.
-*Ian Patterson's "unofficial patch" provides decent security for all those.
 ----
-==No textures==
+==Other problems==
-Driver issue...
+===Texturing===
+There are several degrees of severity (from crappy textures to ugly textures to OMFG).
+That's always a driver issue.
+====Old drivers====
+Try and get a recent driver for your GFX card
+(upgrade to Catalyst if you have an ATI, etc)
+====New drivers====
+Sometimes, Oni is uncompatible with modern stuff.
+Try and get a really old driver, then :)
 ----
-==Major lag==
+===Major lag===
-Often an ATI issue
+====Power management====
-More, later...
+This can be a problem on notebooks. Under certain conditions, the performance of the computer will decrease dramatically, for example :
+*if you run on battery power
+*if you let the computer overheat
+====Driver issue====
+Same as "texturing", see above.
 ----
-==Widescreens (16:10)==
+===Widescreen===
 Not really a problem, but it can be a bit annoying when your ONI window gets auto-stretched to fit a 16:10 screen.
-;Solution : Run ONI with the '''-noswitch''' [[Customizing#Command-line arguments |command line argument]]. Oni then runs in a "window" in the upper left corner of your screen, with the resolution selected in [[Customizing#Options_Menu|Options]].
+;Solution : Run ONI with the '''-noswitch''' [[Customizing#Command-line arguments |command line argument]]. Oni then runs in a "window" in the upper left corner of your screen, with the resolution selected in [[Customizing#Options menu|Options]].
 :If you want that window centered with a black background behind it, use [http://www.chrilly.net/oniwindowmover.zip OniWindowMover].
 ----
-==Game plays funny==
+===Game plays funny===
 For example, you may run Oni for the first time, and then there's this room with a data console on this side and one on the other (nothing happens when you activate them), a window and a door on the other side... and an invisible wall in the middle of the room that doesn't let you through to where the door is, and that you can do ''nothing'' about. What the... LET ME OUT!!!
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 So you may want to :
 *check for that folder in your installation... and give [[User:Geyser|me]] a copy. I'm just curious about what happened to it.
-*download [http://geyser.oni2.net/OSL/IGMD/IGMD.zip that one] (PC) or [http://geyser.oni2.net/OSL/IGMD/IGMD_MAC.zip that one] (Mac) and unzip it into GameDataFolder.
+*download [http://geyser.oni2.net/OSL/IGMD/IGMD_PC.zip that one] (PC) or [http://geyser.oni2.net/OSL/IGMD/IGMD_Mac.zip that one] (Mac) and unzip it into [[GameDataFolder]].
-It should work. If you're on a Mac :
+It should work.
-*try it with the "IGMD S" folder name as archivated (I assume that was the actual name of the folder on the Mac of the guy who sent it to me).
-*then, if it works (or ''a fortiori'' if it doesn't), try renaming it to "IGMD". I would be surprised if Oni's loader accepted spaces as valid characters.