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Wintermute Engine => Bug reports => Topic started by: Prote1n on March 19, 2010, 06:16:55 PM

Title: New Problem under Windows 7 64 bits
Post by: Prote1n on March 19, 2010, 06:16:55 PM

I was using using WME under Windows 7 64 bit till today without problems

Today the game crashed in a scene with particles as the same scene was working well under XP.
And now I've lost the debugging console (parameters are right in ProjectMan). I tried to uninstall/install WME, cleaned the registry, restoring previous Windows restauration point ...
Another trouble the ESC does not work anymore in the WME but works in package.

Does anybody else have the same trouble. I absolutely don't have any more ideas to fix it

Title: Re: New Problem under Windows 7 64 bits
Post by: Mnemonic on March 19, 2010, 09:27:01 PM

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And now I've lost the debugging console

Define "lost". It doesn't display at all? Not even a button on a taskbar? Do you get the "Error loading 'wme_console.dll'." error in wme.log file?
The console requires .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual C++ runtime (the runtime is installed with WME).
Does WindowEdit work?

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Another trouble the ESC does not work anymore in the WME but works in package.

I found that if Photoshop (CS3) is running in the background, it steals the Esc key from other applications. Not sure if it's Win7 specific, or if it's a "feature".

Title: Re: New Problem under Windows 7 64 bits
Post by: Prote1n on March 19, 2010, 10:08:43 PM

Fixed !

The debugging console was running but hidden for an unknown reason. I could see the task in Windows Task Manager. Simply Swap the process and it reappears on screen ... There's so many stange things I discover with Windows 7

Thanks for your reply

Title: Re: New Problem under Windows 7 64 bits
Post by: Mnemonic on March 19, 2010, 10:13:30 PM

One thing you can try is: in Windows Explorer, type the following address to the address bar: %appdata%\Wintermute Engine\DebugConsole
You should see a file called LastSettings.xml. Delete the file. That will reset the console settings to default.
Then try running the game from ProjectMan and see if the file is recreated.

No idea about the Escape key. Other keys work?

Title: Re: New Problem under Windows 7 64 bits
Post by: Prote1n on March 19, 2010, 10:23:23 PM

I've succeed to reproduce it.

I have a scene where a particule effect is crashing systematically under Windows 7 but runs well under XP. I'll do a separate topic once i will identify the bug step by step first

If i run this scene, WME crashes. Windows 7 suggests to close the program (ans also the debugging console). If I restart WME the debugging console is hidden and I need to reactivate it with the Task Manager

Title: Re: New Problem under Windows 7 64 bits
Post by: Prote1n on March 20, 2010, 10:55:22 AM

In fact it seems that the problem of the debugging console and the ESC key are linked.

While debugging the game, if you iconize the debugging console in the task bar, you're loosing the ESC key. If you restore it in windowed mode, you retrieve the ESC key