MPCEE French Bureau wrote:
Hello:
Last month I mentioned that I had an installation problem for
WindowsXP. From the Reponses that I received, at that time, were one’s
that mentioned OpenGL etc for audio and video. Looking at the number
of threads where NVDIA has been mentioned, I posed this question to
Toshiba (the manufacturer of the computer that I am trying to install
FG on.
The response is an interesting one and, I think, needs to be responded
to on this Forum, to help Windows’ users. Quote – “NVDIA cannot be
used on our Notebooks, however you have the up-to-date Microsoft
Direct3D which should be acceptable for your request”.
I still cannot run FG. That is to say all runs perfectly until you
press, “RUN”, but eventually the command window says “Unknown
exception in the main loop. Aborting… Possible cause: No error.
If anyone out there is using Windows on a laptop with Microsoft
Direct3D, perhaps they can respond to why this is happening. Other
programmes run quite happily and I am sure Toshiba would not miss the
opportunity to ensure there machines are capable of capitalising on a
market that is worth millions from the games industry etc!
I'm on my way out of town for the rest of the week, but the short answer
is you *need* opengl to run Flightgear. Figure out which vido chipset
came with your laptop (probably ATI?) and make sure you have the latest
drivers installed.
Curt.
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Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
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