Egoboo Community Forum

Agent of Dread wrote:
Fatty.
That is all.

Good luck carrying THAT squirrel around.

So I haven't played Egoboo for a pretty long time now, and having gotten a new computer a while ago and thinking about stuff, today I came to the conclusion: I really ought to get into this game again.

So I went ahead and downloaded the latest revision (1024) from the SVN, took the latest binary (#44) and put it in the same folder, tried to run it - and what the hell?
My anti-virus-program (Norton Internet Security) alerted me that the binary executable actually was a "highly dangerous virus" and deleted it. This shouldn't happen.
Well, so I ignored Norton and restored the executable, but it refuses to work. Everytime I try to run it, it simply says "Egoboo has encountered a problem and must be closed.", which sounds awfully familiar. I looked for that redistributable package (I forgot what it was called) in the game folders in an attempt to solve the problem myself, but I can't find it.
stderr.txt and stdout.txt are both empty, and log.txt doesn't even exist.

Help?

"Egoboo has encountered a problem and must be closed" is likely to be a missing DLL.

Reminds me of the "2.7.5 trojan" thing.

Don't worry, there is no virus infection.

Either there is something wrong with the dll as birdsey said or maybe a compiler setting is causing trouble?

If the re-distributable package was the problem, then the error should be something like: "The configuration is incorrect, please reinstall."

Also, the binary works fine for me... anyone else having any trouble? Can you try it birdsey?

Check for a stdout.txt or stderr.txt file in the exe directory.

Also, the log file is now generated in the application folder remember. (not in the egoboo folder)

no problems for me.

The error "Egoboo has encountered a problem and must be closed" is generated by the operating system, so the most likely reason is a missing DLL.

Does the game window start to open at all?

Is there a stdout.txt or stderr.txt file?

You need to have a directory called "C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\egoboo" for the filesystem to work, but this should give a different error or should just close without any notice.

I think birdsey's repeating himself

Egoboo should create that folder if it doesn't exist... So unless it doesn't have access to that folder that should not be an issue right?

If I am repeating myself it is because the question was not answered and it is important.

It will create the subdir, but not the "C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\egoboo", which should be created by the installer.

Ah right... I need to figure out how to make Inno do that. Should not be too hard if it supports environmental variables.

[edit]Think I got it. The installer should create a folder and install the players folder and setup.txt there[/edit]

Zefz wrote:Don't worry, there is no virus infection.

I thought so, but it still shouldn't happen...

bgbirdsey wrote:Check for a stdout.txt or stderr.txt file in the exe directory.

I already did, but as I said: they both exist, but they're both empty.

bgbirdsey wrote:Does the game window start to open at all?

No; it just loads for a few seconds after I run the .exe, then I instantly get the error I mentioned.

bgbirdsey wrote:You need to have a directory called "C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\egoboo" for the filesystem to work, but this should give a different error or should just close without any notice.

There is no such directory for me... When was this added as a requirement? No former version of Egoboo I've played required a folder in Documents and Settings...

bgbirdsey wrote:If I am repeating myself it is because the question was not answered

Excuse me, I've been offline the whole time until now.

It became a requirement a number of revisions ago. We added this for several reasons. Number one would be that we could get the game into the Linux repository without the Linux community going el poco loco on us.

Secondly now save games, game progress and settings will be saved on your account, so if your little brother plays on his account, he cannot access your saves or setup (and vice versa).

You could even put custom mods or modules into that folder without affecting the game for other users. The shortcut named "My Egoboo Stuff" should go to the Egoboo folder under application data.

Clonkinator wrote:Excuse me, I've been offline the whole time until now.

I think that comment was directed to pf2222 complaining birdsey stating the same question twice rather than you being offline. Questions in previous, older posts tend to get overlooked (by some people).

Zefz wrote:It became a requirement a number of revisions ago. We added this for several reasons. Number one would be that we could get the game into the Linux repository without the Linux community going el poco loco on us.

Secondly now save games, game progress and settings will be saved on your account, so if your little brother plays on his account, he cannot access your saves or setup (and vice versa).

You could even put custom mods or modules into that folder without affecting the game for other users. The shortcut named "My Egoboo Stuff" should go to the Egoboo folder under application data.

I see. But how does Multiplayer work then? If two users of the same computer use different accounts and thus cannot access the other account's characters for multiplayer, wouldn't that be counter-productive?
Also, is there any way to allow the system administrator to turn this behaviour off? Some users do not share their computer with anyone else, after all. Just asking.

Zefz wrote:

Clonkinator wrote:Excuse me, I've been offline the whole time until now.

I think that comment was directed to pf2222 complaining birdsey stating the same question twice rather than you being offline. Questions in previous, older posts tend to get overlooked (by some people).

Ah, never mind then.