Messages

1

AI War Technical Support / Re: AI War: Fleet Command starts up with no window (MacOS)

« on: April 01, 2011, 10:37:21 AM »

Yep, that fixed it.  It loads up in windowed mode, and from the looks of things it should work fine.

Thanks!

I'm guessing this means there's a bug in fullscreen mode on multi-display machines. 

2

AI War Technical Support / Re: AI War: Fleet Command starts up with no window (MacOS)

« on: April 01, 2011, 10:19:43 AM »

I get the same behaviour running it manually.

Is there a debug mode I can open the game in?   I ran into this once before with a game that just hadn't been tested on a system with multiple displays -- it was designed to open full screen by default, and would get confused by the multiple displays -- running in debug mode pinpointed the problem.

I'm downloading the demo from Vulturis now.. I'll give that a try as well.

3

AI War Technical Support / Re: AI War: Fleet Command starts up with no window (MacOS)

« on: April 01, 2011, 10:04:57 AM »

Humm, that is really unexpectedly fast, but sounds good if it fixed the issue.   Is the game running now?

Oh, no sorry I thought that was implied.  My bad.  There's no difference in the behaviour of the game.

4

AI War Technical Support / Re: AI War: Fleet Command starts up with no window (MacOS)

« on: April 01, 2011, 09:57:25 AM »

Right-click or command-click the AI War entry in Steam, and then hit Properties.  Then look under the Local Files tab of that, and hit Verify Integrity of Game Cache.

Okay, thanks.  It says "All files successfully validated."  It actually runs quite quickly (four or five seconds?).

5

AI War Technical Support / Re: AI War: Fleet Command starts up with no window (MacOS)

« on: April 01, 2011, 09:41:30 AM »

Hmm, that is a new one on me. My fist thought is to try verifying your steam cache for the game, to make sure it didn't corrupt any files it downloaded. Usually the oddest launch bugs are caused by that, and the fix is super simple.

Okay.  How do I verify that?  What's the fix if something is corrupted?

Beyond that... The main thing I can think of is that maybe OSX put it on some funky virtual screen? You might try hitting f8 and looking through your virtual screens to see if it is on any of those. My best guess at the moment is a corrupt download, though.

I don't have Spaces enabled, so there are no virtual desktops for it to open on.

Thanks!

6

AI War Technical Support / AI War: Fleet Command starts up with no window (MacOS)

« on: March 31, 2011, 10:38:45 PM »

I just picked up AI War: Fleet Command for MacOS from Steam.  I'm running whatever the latest version is (updated through Steam).  When I start the game I briefly get a window that appears on my center display (I've got three) which quickly disappears before I can read what's on it.. though it looks vaguely like loading progress text.  I then hear what seems to be the intro music, but I've got nothing on screen.

The AI War application and Window menus are visible in the menu bar.  I've tried selecting the Full Screen option from the Window menu, but that has no effect.

Any suggestions?