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im having problem starting egoboo

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when ever i try to start egoboo its starts up but it instantly closes :curse: i need some help
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Could we have some system info? Your operating system, the contents of log.txt from your Egoboo folder, etc?
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where whopuld i ind that file in the egoboo folder and idk it dont tell me what my comp is i know its a windows but on the tower it says vista the in the settings of the comp it says XP
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C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\egoboo\debug\log.txt
Is default I guess.
What version of egoboo?

..I guess the comp's just built for Vista but has XP.
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Windows XP's start button actually says "Start", while Vista's is only a blue Windows logo.

Egoboo's userdata on XP is where 2222 said and on Vista is C:\Users\[user]\Application Data\Roaming\Egoboo (I'm pretty sure, may vary depending on the localization of the Windows)
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You can reach the location of the log.txt by clicking the My Egoboo Stuff shortcut in the folder you installed Egoboo to.
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It actually doesn't work on my old winxp machine, so I didn't suggest it :|
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Oh, yeah, because it'd be built for Vista or 7. You're probably right.
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yea its windows XP because i went in to my computers vital infoermation and looked at my viedo card stuff it says Windows XP Personal and ill check that folder
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i tryed click the my egoboo stuff and nothing happend
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The data in your "My Egoboo Stuff" link may have been distributed improperly. Follow these steps to fix it:
  • Right click on the "My Egoboo Stuff" link and choose "Properties"
  • This will open up a window called "My Egoboo Stuff Properties" with 2 tabs called "General" and "Shortcut".
  • Switch to the "Shortcut" tab.
  • Copy this text: "%AppData%\egoboo"
  • Paste it into the text box marked "Target:"
  • Click "OK".
Double clicking on the "My Egoboo Stuff" link in your install directory should take you to the data directory.

If it does not, then the directory may not exist. Let us know if the repair works.
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Starting Egoboo 2.8.1 ...
INFO: PhysFS file system version 2.0.0 has been initialized...
INFO: Initializing high-performance counter...
INFO: Frequency is 3579545 hz
INFO: Initializing clock services...
INFO: Loaded setup file - "C:\Documents and Settings\Parent\Application Data\egoboo\setup.txt".
INFO: Initializing SDL version 1.2.14... Success!
INFO: Intializing SDL Timing Services... Success!
INFO: Intializing SDL Event Threading... Success!
INFO: Intializing SDL Joystick... Success!
INFO: Intializing SDL Video... Success!
INFO: Opening SDL Video Mode...

thats what was in the log
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It seems that you do not have a valid video mode selected in your setup.txt file and it is crashing video.

The default settings should work if your desktop is not in a special video mode (like 8 or 16 bits), but you are having problems so you will have to edit the settings.txt file by hand.

If there is not a "settings.txt" file under your "My Egoboo Stuff" link, copy the one in the install directory to this folder. Then double click on it to open it in your text editor. Make sure to save or close after you make a change or egoboo will not recognize the change.

Possible change 1: Go to windowed mode instead of full screen. Change the text to read [FULLSCREEN] : "FALSE"

Do this and see if you can get egoboo to start. It is possible that we can't determine a valid fullscreen size for your computer.

Possible change 2: shut off the antialiasing. Change the text to read [TEXTURE_FILTERING] : "NONE"

Do this and see if you can get egoboo to start. It is possible that your video card does not like some OpenGL setting we are using.

Try these and get back to us.
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settings.txt -> setup.txt
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Re: im having problem starting egoboo

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no its still not working :cry: ive played lotsa games and alotdont work but i get em to work on my own but this one i cant get
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