>The very first thing I would try is to head over to the ATI web site and >make sure you have their latest drivers downloaded and installed. If >you are up to date on your video driver and are still having this >problem write back and perhaps we can come up with other ideas? Fred >Bouvier has built an updated windows executable replacement which may >help, but I would definitely look at your video drivers before doing >anything else.
I do have the latest drivers installed. Maybe there is an issue with this graphics adapter regarding handling OpenGL? I guess, I should try Fred Bouvier's update as well. Where can it be downloaded? Regards, Hans >>Hi there, >> >>I'm new to FlightGear and just installed it on my Dell Inspiron 9100 >>Notebook with the following hardware: >> >>- Multi processor Pentium 4 CPU 3.40GHz >> >>- ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 AGP Graphics adapter: Memory size 128 MB, DAC >>Internal DAC(400MHz), BIOS 113-A10812-106 >> >>I'm running Windows XP Professional SP2. FlightGear does not run on my >>system so far. I installed from the CD I received yesterday from Curt >>Olson >>and used the default options. In the FlightGear Wizzard I could only >>choose >>either the A-10 or the UFO without creating an immediate crash of >>fgrun.exe. >> >>In either case, fgfs.exe crashes after clicking "Run" at the end with the >>following lines in the command line window: >> >> >The very first thing I would try is to head over to the ATI web site and >make sure you have their latest drivers downloaded and installed. If >you are up to date on your video driver and are still having this >problem write back and perhaps we can come up with other ideas? Fred >Bouvier has built an updated windows executable replacement which may >help, but I would definitely look at your video drivers before doing >anything else. >> >> >>>opening file: C:/Program Files/FlightGear/data/Navaids/carrier_nav.dat >>> >>> >>C:/Program Files/FlightGear/data/Navaids/TACAN_freq.dat >>Unknown exception in the main loop. Aborting... >>Possible cause: No error << >> >>On the splash screen it reaches the point of "generating sky elements". >> >>Windows creates the following error message: >> >> >> >>>FlightGear: fgfs.exe - Application Error >>> >>> >>The exeption Floating-point division by zero. >>(0x000008e) occurred in the application at location 0x00659e42. << >> >>If I click on fgfs.exe directly, The command line appears with the >>following >>lines: >> >> >> >>>Base package check failed ... Found version [none] at: \Flightgear >>> >>> >>Please upgrade to version: 0.9.9 >>Hit a key to continue... << >> >> >The launcher tells FG where to find all it's files, but when you run the >executable by hand it doesn't know where to look and spits out this >error message. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users End of Flightgear-users Digest ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
