Thanks for the suggestions, I downloaded the latest Nvidia sound drivers and now flightgear works like a charm. Now all I have to do is learn to fly.
Cheers Roux On 5/25/05, Durk Talsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 May 2005 04:02, Roux Heyns wrote: > > My motherboard is an Asus a7n8x (Nforce2) so yes it has onboard sound, > > but not video. > > > > Roux > > > > On 5/25/05, Innis Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Roux > > > > > > Roux Heyns writes > > > > > > >Hi everyone, > > > > > > > >I'm running windows 2k professional sp4 on an Athlon Xp 2500+ with > > > >512MB ram and a Raydeon 9000 pro graphics card. Recently I downloaded > > > >the Flightgear 0.98a binaries from flightgear.org. The installation > > > >procedure seemed to go off without a hitch but when I try and start > > > >flightgear (with either the graphical launcher or the console) I get > > > >the error > > > > > > > >"Unknown exception in the main loop. Aborting... > > > >Possible cause: No such file or directory" > > > > > > > >regardless of which startup options I choose. Please, does anyone > > > >know of possible causes or solutions? > > > > > > I had this problem at one time with the AI traffic manager but I am sure > > > it was fixed for 9.8.Also are you using a M/B with onboard sound or > > > graphics. > > > After that I will leave it to the experts. > > > > > > >Thanks > > > > > > > >Roux > > > > > > Cheers > > > Innis > > > > > > > > The AI traffic problems were finally fixed in 0.9.8a, which should be > available from the website as well (I think). I would doubt, however, if that > is causing your abort, becuase the traffic manager is by default disabled. > You might want see if you can grab the latest sound drivers. IIRC, many > onboard sound drivers don't work well with openal unless you have the latest > drivers. > > Regards, I would try installing 0.9.8a first, and if that doesn't work, have a > look at the sound drivers. > > HTH, > Durk > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
