Program assertion upon execution

[Guest stoehovve]

Hi Guys,

Saw your open sourcing of this game earlier today (Via /.), and decided to take a look over everything, and see if I can contribute. I checked out the read only version of the source, managed to get a clean compile via VS C++ 2008 express (except for 2 test sections, have not had a chance to look into why they failed to compile yet tho).

As I was attempting to run the game, however, I ran into an assertion, that appears to being cause by the game trying to load the following DLL (it occurs when running the debug and non-debugging versions:

C:\windows\system32\ct_oal.dll

A search of the system shows me that, despite me having a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatality Champion sounds card, that driver DLL is not loaded anywhere on my system. It appears that it was phased out for Vista (64-bit) drivers (and possibly other OS versions), according to this thread:

http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/o...ust/004922.html

(of which the removal discussion starts here):

http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/o...ust/004931.html

I understand that (as you stated in the introduction page), that this is very pre-alpha code, and am willing to look into what might need to be done to work around/take into account different driver versions - though I will admit my windows development experience is lacking, and I'm more or less jumping in head first, feet first, and belly flopping all in one :>

But, I do know C++, so I'm half there.

However, after some additional searching, and according to Dxdiag, ct_oal.dll is actually in:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ct_oal.dll

So this might simply be due to the fact that I am running a 64-Bit OS, and the detection is seeing 32-Bit:

(generated 2009-07-16 17:20:23 UTC)

OS : Vista SP 2 (6.0.6002)

CPU : IA-32, Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (1x4x1), 2.40 GHz

Memory : 6142 MiB; 2970 MiB free

Graphics Card : NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

OpenGL Drivers : 3.0.0;

Video Mode : 1024x768:32@60

Sound Card : Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM)

Sound Drivers : OpenAL32.dll (6.14.0357.19), wrap_oal.dll (2.1.4.0), ct_oal.dll (unknown)

[Guest stoehovve]

Some additional information, executing via the quickstart seems to work with out issue.

[feneur]

I'll let the programmers answer the more technical aspects, but I can say this much. When using the quickstart option the game doesn't use sound which explains why it doesn't look for the .dll in that case.

[dankl__]

For the issue of the 2 failed sections. Dont check out to c:\program files or any other directory that has a space in it, it messes up the file path when building in vc2008 (or atleast it did for me ). Also maybe try reinstalling/updating your sound drivers.

Edited July 16, 2009 by dankl__

[janwas]

When using the quickstart option the game doesn't use sound which explains why it doesn't look for the .dll in that case.

Just a minor addition: ct_oal is examined for purposes of reporting your sound driver version. While -quickstart does skip sound init, it also skips the system-info-retrieval code that results in binaries/logs/system_info (of which sound driver version is a part).

So this might simply be due to the fact that I am running a 64-Bit OS, and the detection is seeing 32-Bit:

Yeah, there are definitely gremlins lurking in that area (Wow64 does magic redirection of the system32 directory).

Can you provide more details on what assertion is being triggered?

[Guest stoehovve]

For the issue of the 2 failed sections. Dont check out to c:\program files or any other directory that has a space in it, it messes up the file path when building in vc2008 (or atleast it did for me ). Also maybe try reinstalling/updating your sound drivers.

Actually, I had no issues in relation to that, the check out worked with out issue, the building of work space elements worked, and other then 32-bit vs 64-bit related elements.

As for the sound drivers, this is a fresh installation of vista (quad HD crash 2 weeks ago, so there's nothing that's been futzed about once I got new drives). As well, the creative labs drivers are about as up to date as the web site says they can be, but thanks for the suggestions.

Here is a direct copy of the assertion being kicked out. When I first ran it, it was not very clear and so I code stepped to track down that it was looking for the ct_oal.dll file, as that was not reported in the assertion.

Function call failed: return value was -100102 (Case 2)

Location: wdll_ver.cpp:57 (ReadVersionString)

Call stack:

ReadVersionString (wdll_ver.cpp:41)

modulePathname_ = 0x01AE0258 ->

m_path = (error -100500 while analyzing string >)

out_ver = 0x0029EF50 -> [8] { 0, 0, 0, 0, 204 (0xCC), 204 (0xCC), 204 (0xCC), 204 (0xCC) }

out_ver_len = 4191315237 (0xF9D26525)

ver_size = 3435973836 (0xCCCCCCCC)

mem =

px = 0x00000000

pn =

pi_ = 0x00000000

subblock = [64]

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0 ...

unused = 3435973836 (0xCCCCCCCC)

noRedirect =

m_wasRedirectionEnabled = 0xCCCCCCCC

modulePathname = (error -100500 while analyzing string >)

s =

m_lastError = 31 (0x0000001F)

lang_len = 0 (0x00000000)

ok = 0 (0x00000000)

lang = 0x00000000

in_ver_len = 0 (0x00000000)

in_ver = 0x00000000

ILT+57655(?wdll_ver_AppendYAXABV?$basic_pathV?$basic_stringDU?$char_traitsDstdV?$allocatorD (:0)

add_oal_dlls_in_dir (wsnd.cpp:52)

path = 0x0029F1D8 ->

m_path = (error -100500 while analyzing string >)

dlls = 0x01350228 -> (error -100500 while analyzing set<string > >)

versionList = 0xF9D27A7D -> (error -100500 while analyzing string >)

ILT+165435(?win_get_snd_infoYAJXZ) (:0)

ILT+135540(?snd_detectYAXXZ) (:0)

ILT+70400(?WriteSystemInfoYAXXZ) (:0)

ILT+92775(?InitYAXABVCmdLineArgsHZ) (:0)

RunGameOrAtlas (main.cpp:379)

argc = 1 (0x00000001)

argv = 0x01BE4C90 -> 0x01BE4C98 -> "c:\Users\excalibur\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\ps\binaries\system\pyrogenesis_dbg.exe"

ran_atlas = false

args =

m_Args = (error -100500 while analyzing vector<pair<CStr8,CStr8> >)

m_Arg0 = { (error -100500 while analyzing string >) }

res = 1.6976e-314 (0x00000000CCCCCCCC)

ILT+159835(_main) (:0)

__tmainCRTStartup (crtexe.c:410)

mainCRTStartup (crtexe.c:393)

CallStartupWithinTryBlock (wseh.cpp:350)

ret = 2750620 (0x0029F89C)

errno = 0 (?)

OS error = 0 (no error code was set)