Hey all, been working with GameStudio for a while now and I just recently (a few weeks ago) ran into a problem. It started intermittently and now happens every time i try to test my game from sed. The error I get is "Error E1242: Can't open video device".

It seems to happen before any of my code is run. Here is the logfile I used -Diag to generate (stuff in brackets is stuff I removed):

Log of A6 engine 6.31.4 run at Fri Jan 28 15:27:44 2005
[username] on Windows NT/2000/XP version 5.1 Build 2600
Options main.wdl -sv -cl -nx 512 -d Map_1 -d team_1 -d debug_skipgspy -d mplaysv -Diag

App C:\Program Files\GStudio6\bin\acknex.exe in D:\WORKING\main\
MM mixer opened
CD audio device opened
DSOUND device opened
DINPUT interface opened3D GameStudio © Conitec . Dieburg . San Diego . www.3dgamestudio.com
A6 engine - professional release V6.31.4 - Nov 18 2004
Development version - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION

C:\Program Files\GStudio6\ackutl.dll -> [registration info]

Mouse found
SB Live! Audio [DF80] opened
SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 ATLANTIS pure T&L device 1ff9 detected
D3D device SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 ATLANTIS 1ff9 selected
Loading MAIN.WDL...
joined..........................................................................
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Script MAIN.WDL compiled
Starting server... [servername and ip address] initialized
debug.dll opened
364 objects
D3D_Init Window: 800x600x16 failed
D3D_Init Window: 640x480x16 failed
D3D_Init Window: 1024x768x16 failed
Error E1242: Can't open video device
Program aborted
Close level,DLL,objects
Free input,path,funcs,panels,defs,syns,views,strings,vars..ok
Free sounds,bmaps,fonts,hash,defs1,script..ok
Close dx,multimedia,connection,engine,video,nexus..ok
A6 engine - professional release V6.31.4 - Nov 18 2004
Development version - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
3D GameStudio © Conitec . Dieburg . San Diego . www.3dgamestudio.com


I have the latest video drivers...any thoughts?

-Xandrath

This happens to me if I am low of memory.
If I close some other applications running currently - it works fine.

But in your case your nexus is set to 512 MB...

So I guess it has to do with your nexus, amount of ram and amount of virtual ram.

Solution?
Try to reduce your nexus. Your clients don't have 1 gig of RAM

-- slacer

Rock. Thanks. I lowered my nexus to 256 and everything runs. I thought it might involve memory but even after restarts and such I would get the error. Meh, I can return to dev work, I'm ecstatic. Thanks again.

What does nexus mean?
(Srry, I am dutch...)

the memory in mb reserved by your game. everything above 80 is far too much for normal games.

Well Michael,

you might think about splitting your game a bit.
Otherwise some of your customers machines will start to constantly use swap space.
Which degrades the performance, which won't look good for your game.

Your game needs
420 MB at runtime
+ operating system
+ whatever the client has running all the time (ICQ, mail, ...)

It really doesn't matter if it runs fine on your machine only

-- slacer

But it also works fine on my beta-testers machines